APRIL 25, 2013 — More depressing news from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Superintendent James Helis is booting the Alumni Association & Foundation out of its headquarters on the USMMA’s Kings Point,
APRIL 15, 2013 — Classification society DNV is offering shipowners support to make newbuilds and existing vessels “LNG ready” with class approved designs, ready for later, simple retrofit of LNG technology. The
APRIL 8, 2013 — After payment of an out of court settlement of an undisclosed amount, Norgas Cathinka, the IM Skaugen Group vessel involved in a September 26, 2012 collision with the
MARCH 25, 2013 — The SS United States Conservancy says that if it can’t secure $500,000 from new donors, corporate sponsors, and other supporters, the historic liner could be sold to scrappers
MARCH 21, 2013 — The GAO has issued a report that should rekindle the debate over the benefits, or otherwise, of the Jones Act. Entitled “Puerto Rico: Characteristics of the Island’s Maritime
MARCH 20, 2013 — Frontline 2012, whose majority shareholder is John Fredriksen’s Hemen Holding, yesterday reported preliminary fourth quarter and full year 2012 results and said it is “currently in the process
MARCH 19, 2013 — Carnival Cruise Lines is applying lessons learned from the Carnival Triumph engine room fire incident not only to that ship but also to to the makeover of the
MARCH 18, 2013 — U.S.Senator Charles Schumer (D -NY) slammed into the cruise industry Sunday, saying “Cruise ships, in large part, operating outside the bounds of U.S. enforcement have become the wild
MARCH 4, 2013 — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced March 2 that the Navy will go ahead with reductions in spending in order to meet the fiscal constraints imposed by
FEBRUARY 28, 2013 — A report published today by Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) indicates that the Canadian Government may have massively underestimated the costs of its National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS).
