Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Front Lady frontline tanker vlcc
Finance

ASIA TANKER: Clean Products Cargoes Bullish On Demand; VLCCs Bottoming Out

Image: Frontline Tankers SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–Asia’s freight markets for vessels carrying clean petroleum products may stay bullish in the coming

August 23, 2011
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Flash Bang – Inside The USCG’s Secret Weapon Development Center
USCG

Flash Bang – Inside The USCG’s Secret Weapon Development Center

The Office of Specialized Capabilities (CG-721) is located in Coast Guard headquarters and reports directly to the Assistant Commandant for Capability, Rear

August 22, 2011
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UPDATED: Shipping industry’s best practices for piracy protection
Piracy

UPDATED: Shipping industry’s best practices for piracy protection

The fourth edition of the shipping industry’s Best Management Practices for Protection against Somali Based Piracy (BMP4) has been released.  Supported

August 22, 2011
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Chief mate and two others killed in Philippines ferry fire

Chief mate and two others killed in Philippines ferry fire

Three people, including the chief mate, were killed Saturday in a fire that broke out on the passenger ferry M/V ISLAND FASTCRAFT 1, just miles from its

August 22, 2011
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Pirates make bold attack: Tanker hijacked while at anchor in Oman port of Salalah
Incidents

Pirates make bold attack: Tanker hijacked while at anchor in Oman port of Salalah

Port of Salalah, Oman, (c) Robert Almeida Until recently, pirates have roamed around the open oceans looking for their next target, however they took a bold

August 22, 2011
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
canada flag
News

Canada Escalates its Arctic Activities… and we’re not talking hockey you hoser.

OTTAWA (Dow Jones)–Prime Minister Stephen Harper flies this week to Canada’s High Arctic, where troops are conducting the country’s largest

August 21, 2011
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Rescuers Find Fourth Body In Petrobras Helicopter Crash, Search Ends
Incidents

Rescuers Find Fourth Body In Petrobras Helicopter Crash, Search Ends

Photo: Agusta Westland AW139 helicopter RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras,

August 21, 2011
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Google-Street-View-Boat
Blog

TECH: Google Street View is shifting to the global waterways, starting with the Amazon

For over four years now, Google has been driving around the world’s roads to bring you 360-degree street-level imagery. The project is called street view

August 21, 2011
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Senior Air Taxi petrobras brazil helicopter S-92
Incidents

4 missing after Petrobras helicopter ditches off coast of Brazil

(Dow Jones) Rescue teams in Brazil on Saturday morning resumed their search for a helicopter with four people on board that made an emergency landing at sea

August 20, 2011
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Friday, August 19, 2011
captain stuck on toilet runs aground finnish ferry
Blog

Scandinavian ferry runs aground while captain stuck in toilet

The Finnish ferry KING carrying 54 passengers ran aground Friday after its master got stuck in the bathroom, according to a report from Reuters based on a

August 19, 2011
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New concept converts oceans solar energy into low-cost electricity
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New concept converts oceans solar energy into low-cost electricity

Illustration courtesy ABS The American Bureau of Shipping has just approved a new concept for renewable energy production for a commercial grid that converts

August 19, 2011
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floatel ship - pyramid shape floating hotel
Blog

The History And Future Of Flotel Ships

In 1977 the JCE Group AB, founder of Consafe Offshore AB, built the world’s first purpose built flotel semi-submersible, named Safe Astoria. Since that

August 19, 2011
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DSME Daewoo shipbuilding stock chart
Engineering News

Daewoo Shipbuilding drops almost 14%, Korean market takes heavy losses

Image courtesy Reuters HONG KONG (MarketWatch)–The South Korean market led the way for hefty stock losses in Asia Friday, as risk appetite evaporated on

August 19, 2011
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ExxonMobil
News

Exxon’s Billion-Barrel Secret

HOUSTON— (Dow Jones) The only thing that surprised the energy industry more than ExxonMobil Corp.’s mammoth oil find in the Gulf of Mexico is

August 19, 2011
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Drunk captain runs ship aground [PHOTOS]
Blog

Drunk captain runs ship aground [PHOTOS]

Photo Seanews Turkey A Latvian captain has been placed under arrest after his ship ran aground, allegedly while the man was drunk.  The cargo vessel ALVA was

August 18, 2011
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Volvo Ocean Race organizers cancel plan to race off the coast of Somalia
Blog

Volvo Ocean Race organizers cancel plan to race off the coast of Somalia

[youtube width=”600″ height=”506″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO073dcrcy4 Go figure… I can’t imagine the decision to

August 18, 2011
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Puerto Rican shipping company fined in pollution cover-up case
USCG

Puerto Rican shipping company fined in pollution cover-up case

Puerto Rican-based Epps Shipping Company was sentenced today in federal court to pay a $700,000 fine for violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships

August 18, 2011
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New charges for pirate negotiator
Piracy

New charges for pirate negotiator

M/V MARIDA MARGUERITE. MarineTraffic.com via EUNAVFOR NORFOLK, Va.—A man accused of negotiating on behalf of Somali pirates in the deadly hijacking of a

August 18, 2011
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Bollinger responds to DOJ lawsuit
Engineering News

Bollinger responds to DOJ lawsuit

Bollinger Shipyards has issued a statement in response yesterday’s lawsuit filed against them by the U.S. Department of Justice.  The complaint alleges

August 18, 2011
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indian ocean piracy
Incidents

Weekly Piracy and Maritime Crime Summary – Week of 11 August

Global Summary of Piracy and Maritime Crime – Week of 11 August 2011 (Source: ONI) NIGERIA: Unidentified gunmen exploded a bomb on 11 August at 0240 LT

August 18, 2011
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