Jamie Sweeting, vice president of Environmental Stewardship, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., says he is “delighted” that the cruise line is the recipient of the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA) 2011
Maersk Line, Limited (MLL) and its guests celebrated the naming of its fourth U.S. flag tanker, the MAERSK PEARY, last Friday at the Half Moone Cruise and Celebration Center in Norfolk, Va.
As Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA District 1) members picketed its ships, Liberty Maritime Corporation of Lake Success, N.Y., today announced that it has entered into a new collective bargaining agreement with
Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Limited reports that it has entered into contracts with a new customer, a first class international company, to transport 400,000 tons of iron ore per year over a period of
The National Transportation Safety Board has determined the probable cause of the January 23, 2010, collision of the 810 ft tanker Eagle Otome with the 597 ft cargo vessel Gulf Arrow and
Hyde Marine, Inc. reports that its Hyde Guardian ballast water treatment system (BWTS) has received Type Approval from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). Hyde Guardian was the first BWTS to receive
VT Halter Marine, Pascagoula, Miss., has delivered Vision/650-10, the last of 10 Articulated Tug Barges (ATBs) in Crowley Maritime Corporation’s 650-series newbuild program. The ATB is now ready to enter service and
Waterways Council, Inc.’s (WCI) Board of Directors unanimously elected Mike Toohey as the organization’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Toohey, who has more than 30 years of federal government expertise, will replace
Seattle- based Jensen Maritime Consultants, Inc., a Crowley company, recently completed custom design work for the Bob Franco, a new Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugboat for Harley Marine Services. The vessel –
Four corporations involved in owning and operating a fleet of vessels regularly visiting New Orleans were today sentenced to pay a $1 million penalty and banned from doing business in the United
