DESMI BWTS approved for hazardous area installation

JUNE 13, 2016 — Aalborg, Denmark, based DESMI Ocean Guard A/S reports that Dekra Exam GmbH has issued ATEX certificate for its RayClean-EX ballast water treatment system. This means the system can

Lack of communications led to Houston Ship Channel collision

JUNE 9, 2016 — The National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday that the probable cause of the 2015 collision of the Conti Peridot and the Carla Maersk in the Houston Ship Channel

NTSB set to launch El Faro VDR recovery mission

JUNE 7, 2016 — The National Transportation Safety Board says it will launch a mission early July to recover the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the TOTE cargo ship El Faro. The

Shipowners: EU must align its CO2 reporting with IMO

JUNE 6, 2016—Through a coordinated campaign, shipowner associations are going to try to persuade the European Union to align its unilateral regulation on the monitoring of shipping’s CO2 emissions with the mandatory

Grounded laker: lightered, refloated, anchored

JUNE 6, 2016 — After successful lightering operations that began Friday (see earlier story) the grounded Great Lakes self-unloader Roger Blough has been refloated and, by Saturday afternoon, was safely anchored in

Lightering of grounded Great Lakes bulker gets underway

JUNE 3, 2016 — The U.S. Coast Guard says that it continues to monitor and respond as lightering operations, which began this morning, continue on the grounded Great Lakes self-unloading bulker Roger

Ardent celebrates its first birthday

JUNE 3, 2016 — Houston headquartered Ardent, the company created by the merger of Crowley Maritime’s Titan Salvage and the Maersk Group’s Svitzer Salvage, has just celebrated its first birthday. “One year

LR provides AIP for HMD design LNG bunkering vessel

JUNE 3, 2016—Lloyd’s Register has given Approval in Principle (AIP) to a Hyundai Mipo Dockyard design for a self-propelled 6,600 m3 tanker that would provide bunkering capability at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal.

Evoqua launches compact version of BWMS

JUNE 2, 2016 — Warrendale, PA, headquartered Evoqua Water Technologies is launching  a compact version of its SeaCURE ballast water management system (BWMS). The compact SeaCURE BWMS, which will be on display

New Fire Fighter UHF meets coming SOLAS requirement

JUNE 1, 2016 — Under a new SOLAS regulation about 65,000 vessels worldwide will be required to carry intrinsically safe portable radios within the regulated “fire fighter outfits,” prior to their first

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