OCTOBER 4, 2016 — To help ensure compliance with IMO Ballast Water regulations coming into force in 2017, Spain’s Ibaizabal Tankers has confirmed its purchase of two SeaCURE ballast water management systems
OCTOBER 3, 2016 — Less than a year after a whale watching vessel operated by Jamie’s Whaling Station, Tofino, BC, capsized with the loss of six lives (see earlier story) another of
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 – UPDATE: Increasingly rough conditions at sea have meant the operation to load the Transocean Winner onto the Hawk in Broad Bay, Isle of Lewis (see earlier story), has
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 – The U.K. Marine & Coastguard Agency reported today that final preparations are now underway to move a Transocean semisubmersible drilling rig that grounded of Scotland on August 8
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 — American Maritime Safety, Inc. reports that Liberty Maritime Corporation, McAllister Towing, Andrie, Inc. and Foss Maritime will be the recipients of the 2016 AMS Safety Awards. The companies
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 — The application requesting U.S. Coast Guard type-approval for the Optimarin ballast water management system (see earlier story) is the first such request to reach he Coast Guard Marine
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 — Classification society ABS has updated the ABS Guide for Ballast Water Treatment to support industry in the design and installation of ballast water management solutions that meet both
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 — Sandnes, Norway, ballast water treatment (BWT) specialist Optimarin says it is on the brink of becoming the first UV-based BWT system supplier to gain full U.S. Coast Guard
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 — A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) details 14 conclusions and 21 recommendations aimed at further reducing the risk of collisions, allisions, and groundings involving vessels operating within U.S.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 — Bureau Veritas classed both vessels involved in the world’s first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation between two independent ocean-going vessels. It took place September 3, 2016, when M/T Ternsund,