Coast Guard responds to grounded laker
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie is responding to a 1,004-foot freighter that ran aground in Straits of Mackinac, Thursday evening. At 6:30 p.m., a search-and-rescue controller at
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie is responding to a 1,004-foot freighter that ran aground in Straits of Mackinac, Thursday evening. At 6:30 p.m., a search-and-rescue controller at
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Jose “Pache” Ayala, vice president, Puerto Rico services, and Shiju Zacharia, director, technology, were presented with 2013 Thomas Crowley awards, the company’s highest honor, at
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — The U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency reports that the master of a 17 m waterjet propelled wind farm support catamaran has been made to pay £3,000 (about $5,000)
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released its first “White List of 51 shipyards complying with the “shipbuilding industry norms conditions” that yards must meet to
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — The planned Canadian-European Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) is “the most serious threat that we have ever faced in our industry,” says James Given, President of maritime union
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: NCLH) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Prestige Cruises International, Inc., parent company of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 — Wärtsilä Switzerland Ltd and China’s Jiangsu Antai Power Machinery Co. Ltd. (JAD) have signed a license agreement covering the manufacture and sales of Wärtsilä two-stroke engines. JAD is
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 — Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE, OSE: RCL) reports that it has entered into an agreement to sell its cruise ship Celebrity Century to Exquisite Marine Ltd., a holding
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 — Operators of large container vessels continue to turn to slow steaming to gain fuel saving. In line with this trend, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and its
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 — Wärtsilä Yuchai Engine Co., Ltd, a joint venture between Wärtsilä and Yuchai Marine Power Co., Ltd., has inaugurated its new factory in Doumen District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province,