Coast Guard responds to OSV grounding

MARCH 8, 2017 — Coast Guard crews are coordinating salvage efforts for an offshore service vessel aground off the west Cameron Jetties, Cameron Parish, LA. At 7:20 a.m. today Vessel Traffic Service

USCG issues bulletin on BWM extension program

MARCH 7, 2017 — With what is still a relatively small number of U.S. Coast Guard type-approved ballast water management systems starting to be available, many vessel owners will now have questions

Resolve rights Indian Navy frigate after undocking accident

MARCH 1, 2017 — Resolve Marine Group, Inc. and the Indian Navy have successfully rolled and righted the 3,800 t guided missile frigate INS Betwa. Due to a loss of stability while

Carnival now has scrubbers installed in 60 cruise ships

FEBRUARY 27, 2017 — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) reports that it has completed the installation and certification of Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) on an industry-leading 60 ships

Shipping banks exposed to “decarbonization” risks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017 — “Financiers should be future-proofing investments and preparing to harness the new opportunities decarbonization will create,” says Carbon War Room CEO Jules Kortenhorst. “Even with $400 billion in global

ICS points to growing risk of regional action on shipping CO2

FEBRUARY 24, 2017 — Unless the IMO makes significant progress on reducing CO2 emissions from shipping, the industry could face regional action not only from the EU, but also from Canada or

Jury finds two Aegean engineers guilty in magic pipe case

FEBRUARY 23, 2017 — A federal jury in Charleston, South Carolina, late yesterday convicted two chief engineers of the vessel, T/V Green Sky, of falsifying documents in order to conceal illegal discharges

Hyundai Global inks scrubber retrofit MOU

FEBRUARY 21, 2017 — Hyundai Global Services — a company recently spun off by shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries – has signed an MOU with Korean shipping company KSS Line that will see

MSC Fantasia scrubber receives BV MED certification

FEBRUARY 20, 2017 — MSC Fantasia, the first MSC Cruises ship to be retrofitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems, has received her MED Certificate from Bureau Veritas after passing MARPOL testing. This

Hitachi Zosen books order for SCR systems

FEBRUARY 16, 2017 — Hitachi Zosen Corporation reports that it has received an order from China’s Dalian Marine Diesel Co. for two high-pressure selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems. Hitachi Zosen says this

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