Coast Guard icebreaker Healy and tanker Renda have completed their mission to Nome, Alaska, after the safe delivery of an estimated one million gallons of diesel and 300,000 gallons of gasoline to the iced-in [...]
By David Matsuda, U.S. Maritime Administrator Last month, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy made the decision to close the Global Maritime and [...]
Statoil, together with joint venture partners ExxonMobil and ConocoPhilips, have selected a Spar platform to develop the Luva Fieid, a deep-water gas field 300 kilometers offshore Norway that promises to hold [...]
Algoma Central Corp., the largest Canadian shipowner and operator of Canadian-flagged Great Lakes vessels, has announced plans to install fresh water exhaust gas scrubbers on six new vessels that the [...]
Horizon Lines has announced that the company has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve previously announced oily water separator violations in the US-Hawaii service. [...]
TOKYO (Dow Jones)–JFE Holdings Inc. (5411.TO) and IHI Corp. (7013.TO) said Monday they have agreed to merge their shipbuilding subsidiaries effective Oct. 1, in a bid to better compete with sector powerhouses [...]
Learning from each failure can be costly & time consuming. FMEA is a systematic method of studying failure. This ensures that time is not wasted & the root of the problem is quickly determined. It is used to Identify methods to eliminate or reduce the chance of that failure occuring in the future.
I made my first trip to Singapore back in 2000 as a Division Officer on board USS Paul F. Foster. As we were making our way up around the northern [...]
NOME, Alaska – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy begins breaking the tanker vessel Renda from the ice near Nome, Alaska, Jan. 20, 2012. The vessels will now [...]
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced today their plan to scrap five double-hull tankers (four VLCCs, one Suezmax) by the end of March. Scrapping of two vessels is already completed, and [...]
(Dow Jones) Offshore oil-drilling contractor Transocean Ltd., newly clear of some legal clouds from its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, faces significant operational and financial challenges that [...]
We asked the question this evening on our Facebook page and thought you all might be interested in seeing some of the responses… What’s the worst sea you’ve ever been in? [...]
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