USCG issues first U.S. BWM type approval
DECEMBER 2, 2016 — The U.S. Coast Guard today issued the first U.S. type-approval certificate for a ballast water management system. The Coast Guard Marine Safety Center issued the certificate to Optimarin
DECEMBER 2, 2016 — The U.S. Coast Guard today issued the first U.S. type-approval certificate for a ballast water management system. The Coast Guard Marine Safety Center issued the certificate to Optimarin
DECEMBER 1, 2016 — Derecktor Shipyards of Mamaroneck, NY, is to build its third hybrid vessel: a catamaran organic food transportation platform. It has teamed with Harbor Harvest of East Norwalk, CT,
DECEMBER 1, 2016 —The Department of Justice reports that Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges stemming from its deliberate pollution of the seas and intentional
DECEMBER 1, 2016 — The National Transportation Safety Board says that on December 13, it will open the docket for its investigation into the sinking of the U.S. flagged cargo ship El
NOVEMBER 29, 2016 — A Malaysian court has handed down tough sentences to eight Indonesians convicted in the hijacking of an oil tanker in June 2015. Six were sentenced to 15 years
NOVEMBER 25, 2016 — The Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore has issued its Investigation Report on last year’s grounding of the Indonesian registered passenger ferry MV Sea Prince, operated by
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 — A senior engineering officer employed by Italian shipping company D’Amico was yesterday sentenced today to eight months in prison for deliberately concealing a vessel’s discharge of oily waste
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 — MS Roald Amundsen and MS Fridtjof Nansen, the Rolls-Royce designed 600 passenger expedition cruise ships on order at Norway’s Kleven shipyard for Hurtigruten, will feature a new and
NOVEMBER 20, 2016 — The National Transportation Safety Board says that an improperly installed fitting on a fuel line supplying an auxiliary engine fuel injector pump is the probable cause of a
NOVEMBER 18, 2016 — The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) has reconfirmed its support for an international ban on heavy fuel oil (HFO) for all ship traffic in the Arctic.