NOVEMBER 24, 2014 — Ferry industry trade association Interferry has welcomed a decision at last week’s IMO Maritime Safety Committee meeting (MSC94) setting out rules for the location of fuel tanks on
NOVEMBER 20, 2014 — Colonna’s Shipyard, Inc., Norfolk, VA, and Austal USA LLC, Mobile, AL, have both been given citations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
NOVEMBER 17, 2014 — The Maritime Labor Convention (MLC, 2006) came into force August 20, 2013. By the time of its first anniversary, countries signatory to the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on
OCTOBER 2, 2014 — Los Angeles headquartered law firm Arent Fox reports that on September 29, 2014 it secured the freedom of Dejan Vodopic, a Croatian citizen and cargo ship chief engineer
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 — Steve Clinch, Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents at the U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch has some scathing things to say about current generation ECDIS equipment and the training
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)
AUGUST 29, 2014 — The Australian Maritime Safety Agency (AMSA) has issued a direction to the containership Vega Auriga (IMO 9347786) that prohibits the ship from using or entering any Australian ports
MAY 13, 2014 — As divers continued to recover bodies from the Sewol ferry in South Korea, IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) got set for a session that will deal with many
MAY 10, 2014—STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard recently delivered the Turva, a 96-meter dual fuel offshore patrol vessel, to the Finnish Border Guard. The 96 meter by 17 meter wide Turva will
MAY 8, 2014 — Classification society DNV GL has acquired Marine Cybernetics, a leading provider of third-party testing of computer control systems. The acquisition expands DNV GL’s scope of services in the
