Merchant vessels are reminded to remain vigilant while transiting this area and ensure that Self Protection Measures are in place as Pirate Attack Groups (PAGs) may be operating in the area. Although sea states in some parts of the HRA have become more marginal with the onset of the Northeast Monsoon season, small boats
Read moreA container ship firm based in Singapore – Pacific International Lines has to pay $2.2 million in criminal penalties for illegal oil waste disposal and a falsified oil record book. The company pleaded guilty in court in Washington for giving false information to the U.S. Coast Guard and for violating a law against pollution
Read moreThe U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a report of an allision between a vessel and an inactive wellhead about nine miles southwest of Port Sulphur, Wednesday. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a report that the 42-foot crewboat Sea Raider allided with a wellhead owned by Swift Energy at around 8 p.m.,
Read moreChinese buoys installed for “maritime weather observations” near disputed islands in control of Japan raised again the tension between the 2 countries. Japan reacted and asked an explanation from Japan for these buoys which were installed very close to the Japanese waters boundary near the East China Sea islands named Senkaku by Japan. Some
Read moreA tug vessel, reportedly “packed with pleasure seekers,” bumped into the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth owned by Carnival Cruises, while the luxury cruise liner was docked at port of Wellington on the 23rd of February, 2013. There were no injured people. The accident happened midafternoon while the tug boat, carrying fifty passenger onboard, was
Read moreRecently developed commercial tidal models for the Singapore and Malacca Straits have been released in an exclusive online viewer. Developed by applied oceanography specialist Tidetech, the online viewer – OceanView – is an entry-level version of the company’s tidal models, viewable on any internet browser and on internet capable mobile devices. OceanView offers a
Read moreCrowley Maritime subsidiary, Jensen Maritime complete design of 2 ASD tugboats & a deck cargo barge for Harley Marine. Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company Jensen Maritime recently completed the designs of two new ASD tugs, based on the popular Valor tugboat design, and a 250’ x 70’ x 15’ 8” deck barge
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