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NOTE: It is with mixed emotions that I announce that I will be ending my weekly involvement with Maritime Monday. I expect my last edition to be number 190 which is scheduled for publication at the end of the month. While I really enjoy working on it every week, I am ready to take a break from this non-stop weekly schedule after the 3+ years that the series has run.
The gCaptain crew is evaluating some options in how best to keep the series going. With that said, if putting together a weekly roundup of maritime news and events is something that interests you and is something that you have the time for, then feel free to contact any of us.
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USA Today has “World’s largest cruise ship rocked by ‘extreme’ seas in North Atlantic“. See video here. Gives another good example of the power of the sea in how it can move the world’s largest cruise ship as it does. Then think of all the smaller ships out there, most all without stabilization equipment. You can find the OASIS OF THE SEAS website here with lots of video including updates of the vessel’s Atlantic crossing.
In March, Mexico filed a World Trade Organization complaint challenging U.S. labeling rules for tuna caught using methods less harmful to dolphins that swim near the fish.
The United States bars the “dolphin-safe” label on tuna caught by boats using purse seine nets that also snare dolphins — a technique used by Mexican vessels, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said.
“Cuba is selling cheap labor to people who have no scruples, so Cuban crews have been stuck all over the world,” said Casañas, who first reported the Medea case Tuesday on Faro de Recalada, a Cuban naval forum on the Web.
It is, apparently, a very good time to push back against state-sanctioned harbor pilots who are seeking to get rate increases of one sort or another. The weak economy notwithstanding, port authorities, local stakeholders, pilot commissions and state legislators are now regularly eschewing the usual rubberstamp for calls to hike rates and it’s not always about the money, either.
I knew as soon as I heard that South Park would be lampooning Sea Shepherd and Whale Wars that it would be viciously brutal. No one gets a free ride with Trey Parker and Matt Stone. But, I also knew that whatever they were planning it would be good for the whales, and that was all that I was really concerned with, so I was not disappointed.
Okay, so I get a harpoon through the head! Hey, s*@# happens!
The US Coast Guard issued an updated and corrected version of the International and Inland Navigation Rules (COMDTINST M16672.2D). The publication is a compendium of: the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), the Inland Navigation Rules, their respective technical annexes, a listing of the COLREGS Demarcation Lines, the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Regulations, and various other legal provisions regarding compliance and penalties associated with the Navigation Rules. The original version was published on March 25, 1999, by the US Coast Guard Navigation Standards Branch at Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC 20593-7856. This updated version has corrected typographical errors and omissions and includes post-publication 2003 amendments to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS). (10/19/09).
Greenpeace has a video tour of their vessel the ESPERANZA including a good look under the hull in “On board the Esperanza“. Interestingly enough the two cleanest spaces appear to be the bridge and the engine room.
A 1965 Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Spokane, Washington, was found by customs agents in a shipping container in the Los Angeles port last month, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said.
China has postponed a plan to raise the Three Gorges reservoir to its ideal height of 175 metres due to a lack of water, the firm running the dam said.
There has been less water than expected flowing into the reservoir from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
More water than anticipated has also been let out of the reservoir because of drought further down river.
SHIPBREAKING on beaches is nasty and brutish, shortening some of the lives of workers who toil at shipbreaking for a living. It also, by reliable accounts, adds seriously to environmental pollution, as toxic chemicals are washed out to sea.
Therefore it came as a surprise that a former Bangladeshi official defended the practice at a London conference last week.
The defence by AKM Shafiqullah, former director general of Bangladesh’s Department of Shipping, opined that environmental damage due to ship recycling in Bangladesh is greatly overblown.
In August, American Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, approved a plan that will see a large part of the Arctic remain off-limits to commercial fishing. Federal officials have announced that that plan will go into effect the 3rd of December.
The Orcelle Fund, a grant-awarding body created by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, is looking for innovative new maritime projects to support. The fund provides seed capital for projects developing alternative maritime energy sources and energy-efficient technology. The goal is to find projects with potential commercial viability.
Galileo program managers appear to have bowed to the unavoidable and acknowledged that completing the European satellite navigation system will take longer and cost more than their revised estimates of 2014 and €3.4-billion ($5.04-billion), respectively
The Old Salt Blog has “Schooner Mystic to be Sold at Auction“. Interestingly enough, one of the commenters points out that he is handling the sale of another schooner, the VICTORY CHIMES, which can be yours for only $1.5 million.
Come inside the shipyard for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the National Geographic Explorer.
Also, check out the National Geographic Explorer’s Inaugural Voyage! (Here)
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Fairplay Daily News has:
Gunfights at sea? Look deeper – FIREARMS to protect merchant ships on the Indian Ocean will not alone solve piracy, a military analyst has warned.
Nick Davis – a military consultant and managing director of Gulf of Aden Group Transits, a provider of unarmed and armed maritime support services – commented on the Spanish government’s decision to allow fishing and merchant vessels under its flag to carry precision rifles while crossing the Indian Ocean.
“Arms onboard are not the solution in this type of area, although it is often the only choice,” Davis told Fairplay. “Armed patrol vessels maintaining a perimeter around the fishing fleets would be better than gunfights within 100m of a slow moving ship.”
Davis added that a subsidy by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission and the international fishing fleets to Somali authorities in places such as Galmudug/Puntland, in exchange for safe fishing, would be a better solution. “[Such a subsidy] would save €3M [$4.43M] per day in hardware costs for the military to be there,” said Davis, who added that piracy was “getting completely out of hand.”
“The whole solution is based around putting infrastructure and self-sufficiency into Somalia,” he emphasised.
“They need the ability and equipment to generate their own success. They are more than willing to sort themselves out – but they need help.” – Fairplay Homepage (Used with Permission)
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Sunken ferry chief sidelined – JOHN JONESSE, the chief of the ferry company that owned the foundered Princess Ashika, has been stood down from his position and told to seek independent legal advice.
The sidelining of Jonesse has thrown a cloud over the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the 32-year-old vessel in the South Pacific on 5 August, with the loss of 78 people.
Tongans are suspicious about the move by the government-owned Shipping Corp of Polynesia, according to local media, fearing that Jonesse’s evidence has already proven damning of government policy.
After initially denying responsibility, Jonesse conceded he was solely in charge of recommending purchase of the former Japanese Inland Sea ferry from Fijian owners, even though he had no shipping experience.
The vessel was later found to have at least 40 major faults, but repairs were still under way when it was despatched on its fatal voyage from Tongan capital Nuku’alofa with about 180 people and cargo aboard. It capsized in calm seas and sank quickly, trapping many passengers below deck.
Jonesse told the inquiry that government surveyors failed to turn up for the pre-purchase inspection and no time limit had been set for the completion of repairs. – Fairplay Homepage (Used with Permission)
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