While in transit from Jacksonville, Florida to San Juan, Puerto Rico, the crew of Sea Star Line’s El Morro vessel received distress calls from a small fishing vessel in the Atlantic Ocean. The fishing vessel was attempting to hail the U.S. Coast…
Individual $10,000 scholarships to be awarded over four years to one student from each of Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City .Applications are now being accepted for the 12th annual Northrop Grumman Corporation Engineering Scholars competition…
Hersman announces slight rise in 2012 transportation fatalities; aviation, pipeline and marine deaths dropAccording to preliminary figures released today by the National Transportation Safety Board, total transportation fatalities in the…
From Fast Lane, official blog of the U.S. Department of TransportationThe U.S. maritime industry continues to become greener each day as federal agencies, research centers, and ports work to reduce the industry's impact on our environment…
Guardian Maritime Ltd. announced the appointment of Jean Winfield as its new Marketing Director, strengthening their worldwide management team. Jean has more than 20 years’ experience in public relations and marketing, with the last 15…
41% of all detentions in study due to deficiencies in propulsion and auxiliary machineryPreliminary results from the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery, carried out between 1 September 2013 and 30…
What it may foretell about the coming towing vessel rule.In the May 2013 issue of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News, Dennis Bryant published a provocative article titled Rebuilding the Presumption of Preemption. Pointing to recent examples…
Fifty days on, the maximum bending moment for the chemical carrier Maritime Maisie exceeds estimated damage strength limits. The ship will be in danger of breaking up if subjected either to worsening weather or a long ocean towLloyd’s Register’s…
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) inform that its Annual Meeting & Expo has been renamed the SNAME Maritime Convention (SMC), to further address relevant issues across the maritime industry, including ship production…
The UK P&I Club says that with the support of several Members, it has launched 'Book it right and pack it tight' - a set of four guidebooks on the workings of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code.The books are designed to provide busy operational people…
Marine transport advisors McQuilling Services explain in a tanker industry note that timing is everything in a volatile tanker market.McQuilling explain that on the outset, one might not directly see a similarity between Valentine’s Day and the tanker market…
Personnel from the U. S. Coast Guard, Chautauqua County, Lakewood Fire Department, the State of New York, WCA Hospital and more than 2 dozen partner agencies are scheduled to hold a mass-rescue exercise on the ice of Chautauqua Lake in the vicinity…
The Port of Los Angeles has released its January 2014 cargo volumes. January overall volumes increased 2.5 percent compared to January 2013. The increase is due in part to shippers moving cargo in advance of the Chinese New Year, which this year fell on January 31…
For the second consecutive year, CrowleyFresh, Miami’s newest cold-chain warehouse and logistics service, jointly offered by Crowley Maritime Corporation and subsidiary Customized Brokers, showed a little love to customer Sunshine Bouquet Company…
The Aasta Hansteen and Polarled development projects will have significant spinoff effects in the north. So far the projects are set to ensure jobs for 200 people on the Helgeland coast.'Aasta Hansteen is a pioneer project in Northern Norway…