Rising sea levels and changes in water chemistry in New York Harbor and beyond should trigger a comprehensive planning effort to protect waterfront development from the threat of potential inundation, according to Malcolm G. McLaren of McLaren Engineering Group.“People know about global
Following on from the success of the special panel sessions at the 2008 Annual Meeting held in Houston, Texas, SNAME will have an expanded Special Panel program at its 2009 Annual Meeting.The SNAME Annual Meeting which will take place from 21-23 of October in Providence, Rhode Island, will feature four Special Panel Sessions.
The latest version of Jeppesen Marine Vessel and Voyage Optimization Solution (VVOS), released in April, offers integration with its worldwide C-Map electronic chart database.The C-Map cartography integration enables a user to perform a visual safe navigation check of VVOS route alternatives
The International Ship Recycling Association (ISRA) is quite clear; Bangladeshi ship breakers who are using tidal beaches are, as ISRA understands the court decision, illegal. The ruling by the Bangladeshi High Court on the petition filed by the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association to close
Serious accidents in mooring operations involving death or serious injury appear to be increasing over the long term, according to the UK P&I Club. The Club finds it has spent over $34m settling related insurance claims over the past 20 years. The numbers rarely exceeded four per cent
Wesmar EV850 Expedition Vessel Navigation and Security Sonar is a hull-mounted searchlight sonar designed for large personal yachts, expedition vessels, and cruise ships. The searchlight addresses:• Safety while cruising in unknown or hazardous waters, including alerts of icebergs,
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) issued the report of its investigation into the grounding of a passenger ship at Devonport, Tasmania on 23 February 2008.There were no injuries, no damage to the ship, and no pollution. Tidal conditions were a factor and the ship was difficult to maneuver at slow speed.
By Lt. Lesley Lykins, Navy Office of Information, EastThe U.S. Navy commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Great White Fleet in New York Oct. 7 at Grand Central Terminal with the opening of an exhibit that will run through the 2008 Columbus Celebration ending Oct. 17.The exhibit - which includes eight-foot models of battleships,
Vessel owners and operators are finding themselves besieged on many fronts by an onslaught of new laws and regulations governing ship operations at the state and federal levels. At the same time, companies and organizations have been somewhat successful in taking their case to the courts and Congress
Rolls-Royce is continuing to invest in renewable energy sources by taking a 23.5 per cent equity stake in TGL, a privately-owned company developing free stream tidal power generation capability.Rolls-Royce is researching key technologies to provide solutions to the environmental challenges in aerospace,
The Dutch dredging giant Van Oord has once again revalidated their one-year bid for the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust channel dredging contract. However, the company has clarified to the government that it is difficult to carry out the contract at the bidding amount, with the rise in the inflation rate and the various cost escalation,
The Gironde Delta, Europe's largest estuary in the south-west of France, is well- known not only among wine connoisseurs. The Bordeaux region, synonymous with high-class wines, is situated in the Département Gironde, directly at the Atlantic coast. A ferry service runs across a six-kilometer
The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) Defense Equipment and Services has commissioned Gifford, BMT Marine Projects Ltd, and Fleet Support Limited to produce a new Dry Dock Code of Practice. Clearly focused on the goal of safe dry-docking, the Code is aimed at the MoD, shipyards and other military and civil
"Ship efficiency is a question of perspective", this is one conclusion of the two-day expert conference of the German Society for Maritime Technology on "How to make ships more efficient?". More than 150 participants from all over the world attended the first international conference on ship efficiency in Hamburg.
Mechanical engineering students at the University of B.C. are petitioning to stop the university from demolishing a unique vessel-testing facility to replace it with condominiums.
The fight brewing over the fate of the 30-year-old tow-tanks is the latest controversy in UBC's aggressive plan to make
The Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises Ocean Fund awarded $796,000 on March 30 in 15 new grants to marine conservation and environmental organizations, including a $100,000 grant to The Conservation Fund for its Alaska land preservation program and a $100,000 grant to Conservation
The London P&I Club has said that two recent casualties may well have been avoided if the bridge teams of the vessels involved had made use of parallel indexing, a radar technique which can enable navigators to monitor continuously for cross track error. Writing in the latest issue of its StopLoss Bulletin,
Implementation of the Marine Electronic Highway (MEH) Demonstration Project in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore is set to begin shortly, following the signing of a $6.86 million grant agreement between the Global Environment Facility (GEF)/World Bank and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Ocean Technology Foundation historian Peter Reaveley spent more than 30 years researching the battle between Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, using everything from eyewitness and literary accounts of both the battle and damage to the ship found in archives and libraries all over the world.
Using these accounts,
By Don Sutherland
"Tugboats of New York" is one of those rare constructions where everything works just about perfectly. The text is insightfully, appreciatively, and masterfully written. The illustrations are informative, handsome, and sometimes — deliberately, one gathers, given some of the credits — quite beautifully artistic.
Rotterdam based Fairmount Heavy Transport (FHT) NV has been awarded the contract by Saibos Akogep SNC to transport and install the AMP2 Topside for Total. Due to contractual requirements, Fairmount Heavy Transport is requested to keep commercial terms confidential.
The scope of the work for Fairmount
Rotterdam based Fairmount Heavy Transport NV has been awarded the contract by Saibos Akogep SNC to transport and install the AMP2 Topside for Total.
The scope of the work for Fairmount Heavy Transport includes the engineering of the transport and installation project, the load out of the AMP2 Topside (about 11,
The Tampa Bay economy receives more than $7 million a year in savings and direct income from the operation of the Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS), according a new NOAA sponsored study. The report details the first study of the navigational aid, which is in operation at 13 major ports across the United States.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District will proceed with the restoration of two intertidal salt marsh
sites, the Joseph Medwick Park in Carteret, N.J., and the Brooklyn Union
Gas site in Staten Island, N.Y. Both sites were selected as restoration
projects to compensate for unavoidable
Official U.S. Navy file photo of father of the U.S. Navy, John Paul Jones' tomb at the U.S. Naval Academy. Jones is forever immortalized by uttering the words, "I have not yet begun to fight", during the battle between his ship Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis, off the coast of England in 1779. The
Furuno USA introduced its latest innovation in integrated marine electronics, NavNet vx2. Since its release in 2001, Furuno’s NavNet1 series has been enjoying popularity worldwide for its high reliability, performance and expandability.
NavNet1 uses an Ethernet based network to transfer information throughout the components.
President George W. Bush recently delivered remarks on the Columbia River Channel Deepening Project in Portland, Ore., announcing a $15 million budget amendment for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin construction on the project.
President George W. Bush said he will propose to add
Having logged fresh orders from existing clients UN RoRo (formerly UND) of Turkey and Denmark's DFDS group, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft has taken its tally of RoRo trailerships contracted in recent years to 23. The volume of business puts the German yard to the fore in European RoRo freight vessel construction,
“Due to increasing demand and reducing reserves, oil prices currently at $40 are likely to soon enter a period of sustained rises resulting in a need to massively develop natural gas and renewable energy resources” according to John Westwood of energy analysts Douglas-Westwood.
“Oil reserves are depleting and demand growing.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency reported the result of the latest survey, in September 2003, of the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, a war-time Liberty Ship which grounded and split in two off Sheerness in 1944. The survey was carried out under Ministry of Defence supervision by Falmouth Divers Ltd.
BMT Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology Ltd
(BMT), has recently advised on the design of a major new deep water
container terminal in Sepangar Bay in eastern Malaysia. The study
considered where the terminal needed to be located to minimise dredging and
enable ships to manoeuvre safely in the area,
The Department of Ecology (Ecology) has fined owners of the
Gaz Diamond propane tanker $75,500 for
spilling oil into the Port Angeles harbor in May 2002.
The Gaz Diamond is owned by the Naftomar Shipping and Trading Company
Ltd., based in Greece.
The ship spilled 1,188 gallons
The Department of Ecology (Ecology) has fined owners of the Gaz Diamond propane tanker $75,500 for spilling oil into the Port Angeles harbor in May 2002.
The Gaz Diamond is owned by the Naftomar Shipping and Trading Company Ltd., based in Greece.
The ship spilled 1,188 gallons of fuel oil when its tanks overfilled while refueling.
By Dennis L. Bryant, senior maritime counsel, Holland & Knight
Maritime lawyers and others frequently use jurisdictional terms such as territorial sea, navigable waters, contiguous zone, and exclusive economic zone. But what does it all mean? What are the meanings of these terms and
Thames Coastguard are currently assisting the crew of a jack up rig who were working to install an off shore wind farm off Gunfleet Sands, near Clacton on Sea. The front two legs of the rig have sunk into the sand about three metres and work is now necessary in order to make the rig safe and operational.
USS George Washington (CVN 73) Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Joan Kretschmer
Commander, 2nd Fleet ordered ships based in Hampton Roads in southeastern Virginia to get underway Sept. 16, to avoid potential damage to ships and piers from anticipated hurricane force winds and high tidal surges.
Kalmar has secured an order for the delivery of a ship-to-shore (STS) container crane for P&O Ports Antwerp. Despite its compact dimensions - 40 metres outreach, 15 metres railspan and 21 metres backreach - in terms of capacity, the crane can be considered a true heavyweight with a lifting capacity of 65 tonnes under the twinlift spreader.
Transas has received a DNV (Det Norske Veritas) type approval Certificate for its second-generation electronic chart display information system, Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS.
In autumn 1999, Transas became the world's first company to receive ECDIS type approval for its Navi-Sailor 2400 system. Since then,
Rolls-Royce introduced a pair of new vessels for its popular UT line of vessels, the UT712 and the UT737L. To be built by Soviknes for Island Offshore and delivered in October 2003, the new UT737L, dubbed Island Frontier, takes multi-tasking to dizzying new heights. Under development for almost three years,
Mariners calling on the Port of New York/New Jersey will now have a new tool to assist them navigate safely through the harbor. The Port of
New York/New Jersey Operational Forecast System (NYOFS), created by the NOAA National Ocean Service's (NOAA Oceans and Coasts) Center for
Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPs),