Crowley Maritime company Titan Salvage, in collaboration with Italian marine contractor Micoperi, has won the contract to salvage the Costa Concordia, Costa Cruise Lines announced April 21. The salvage plan, which must
A former chief engineer from the purse seine tuna fishing vessel San Nikunau pleaded guilty today in federal court in Washington, D.C., to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS),
The U.S. Coast Guard, together with the Louisiana Department of Envrionmental Quality and Plaquemines Parish, is responding to a report of a fuel oil discharge, Tuesday, on the lower Mississippi River near
The American P&I Club has issued an alert warning members that the State of California has introduced a No Discharge Zone (NDZ) that prohibits vessel sewage discharge in all California marine waters.
Resolve Marine Group, Inc. and its Resolve Salvage & Fire (Asia) Pte Ltd. subsidiary report that wreck removal operations at Kankesanthurai (KKS) Harbor in northern Sri Lanka have been completed. Retained by
Coltec Industries Inc. and National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) have agreed to pay a civil penalty of $280,000 and spend approximately $500,000 on an environmental project to resolve alleged violations of
Two Hamburg, Germany, based companies have come up with an alternative to plugging into shoreside power as a way to cut ships’ emissions while in port. The Eckelmann Group, a specialist in
Piraeus, Greece, based Ilios Shipping Company S.A. was sentenced March 27 in federal court in New Orleans for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and obstruction of justice, announced
Salvage operations have successfully refloated a Crowley tug, which had been submerged in a sunken dry dock at Vigor Marine in Everett, WA, since March 18. As we reported earlier, the tug
A 38 m “Guideship” to be built for Korea’s state-owned Incheon Port Authority is to have a 9 cylinder Wärtsilä 20DF dual-fuel engine. The vessel, which is being designed and built by