Environmental News


Oil Recovery from Submerged Ship Wreck

Sep 29, 2009

Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur is continuing to coordinate response operations to recover oil from a submerged ship wreck 6 miles off Texas Point in the Gulf of Mexico, Friday, Sept. 25.The Coast Guard federal on scene coordinator…

CG Responds to Oil Spill off Savannah Coast

Sep 29, 2009

The Coast Guard is responding to an oil spill approximately nine-miles offshore of Savannah after a tank ship punctured a hole in its double-hulled fuel tank during the deployment of the ship's anchor Sept. 27. The Singapore based tank ship…

Oil Recovery Ops in Houston Ship Channel

Sep 29, 2009

The oil spill responders continue clean up efforts today after the 458-ft tank vessel Chemical Supplier allided with a barge and spilled approximately 10,500 gallons of oil in the Houston Ship Channel early on Sept. 25.Responders, as of 5:00 p…

Climate Change: a Challenge for IMO Too

Sep 25, 2009

September 24 2009 marks the 32nd celebration of World Maritime Day, the annual occasion when the International Maritime Organization (IMO) leads the world in highlighting a key issue for the Organization and the shipping industry. This year…

Wilhelmsen Ships Service Assists Wind Farm

Sep 23, 2009

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has been awarded a contract to handle all the ships agency calls for the main contractor to the Belwind Project, one of the largest new green energy projects in the world.Wilhelmsen Ships Service Belgium has signed…

Canadian Committee of GL, Annual Meeting

Sep 23, 2009

'How to make ships more efficient?' This was the key question posed at the 15th Canadian Committee meeting of Germanischer Lloyd (GL). More than 20 representatives of the Canada and U.S. Flags, ship owners and operators, yards, consultants,…

Transocean in Carbon Disclosure Project 2009

Sep 23, 2009

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) said it has been ranked among the world's top 50 companies in the recently issued Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 2009 Global 500 Report. For the second consecutive year, Transocean was featured in CDP's 'Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index…

Costa Cruises Receives ABB Award

Sep 22, 2009

Costa Cruises has received the ABB Energy Efficiency Award 2009 in recognition of its efforts and progress in improving energy efficiency in its motor and drive systems.The prize was presented as part of “Energy Efficiency Award 2009.  Designing…

Global Maritime Environmental Congress

Sep 21, 2009

For two days, industry experts from all over the world will attend the Global Maritime Environmental Congress (GMEC) in Hamburg to discuss developments, to present results, and to set a new course for sustainable green shipping. Patronage for this event…

Arctic Sea Ice Report

Sep 20, 2009

The National Snow and Ice Data Center, sponsored by the University of Colorado and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), issued its report on Arctic sea ice. The ice in the Arctic Ocean has reached its minimum extent for 2009 and is starting to reform…

First Full-Scale Floating Wind Turbine

Sep 13, 2009

Technip joins StatoilHydro in celebrating the inauguration of the Hywind demonstration wind turbine, which took place on September 8 in Karmøy, Norway. Located 10 kilometers offshore Karmøy, Hywind is the first full-scale floating wind turbine and has a capacity of 2…

Wärtsilä Scrubbers Certified for Sulphur Oxide

Sep 10, 2009

After performing successfully in a series of tests, the Wärtsilä sulphur oxides (SOx) scrubber has been granted the Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) Compliance Certificate by the classification societies Det Norske Veritas and Germanisher Lloyd…

Oil Slick in the Timor Sea

Sep 10, 2009

This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on August 30, 2009, shows the Timor Sea and what are probably oil slicks about 250 kilometers northwest of Western Australia, from a leaking oil well in the Timor Sea…

Montara Well Head Platform Leak Update

Sep 10, 2009

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is continuing its staged approach to the management of the clean-up of oil leaking from the Montara well head platform in the Timor Sea. The main area of containment/recovery and dispersant spraying…

MOL Concept for New-Generation Vessels

Sep 10, 2009

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that the company has formed the concept for its next-generation vessels, which will be a technically practical in the near future, by building on and refining technologies it has already developed and adopted…

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