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Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Posted 11/13/08 at 09:41 AM
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is being awarded Modification P00006 under contract (N00030-08-C-0010) in the amount of $117,385,862 for Trident II (D5) guidance system repair, guidance system parts and MK6LE...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:40 AM
Mariners are advised that as of November 17, 2008, the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation will be conducting tests using revised two-person lockage procedures at Iroquois lock.It is to be noted that the existing testing of pilot changes with 2 wires and mooring vessels with less than 4 wires at Iroquois lock will continue using revised...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:39 AM
AECOM Technology Corporation (ACM:aecom technology corp delawa com ACM 18.35, +0.75, +4.3%), provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, announced that its environment business line has been awarded a $12...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:37 AM
SeaBridge Freight, Inc. of Jacksonville, FL announced that it will launch its marinehighway short sea transportation service on December 1, 2008. SeaBridge Freight will initiate its bluewater container-on-barge operation between the Port of Brownsville, TX and Port Manatee, FL...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:36 AM
More licenses than ever before are being offered to companies to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, UKs Energy Minister Mike O'Brien announced on Nov. 12, 2008.The announcement will help the UK to make the most of its own home grown supplies of energy...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:35 AM
According to a report from The Straits Times, pirates struck early on the morning of Nov. 10, robbing crew members of a Singapore-registered barge and an Indonesian-registered tugboat of cash and personal belongings...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:35 AM
1776 - Captain John Paul Jones in Alfred with brig Providence captures British transport Mellish, carrying winter uniforms later used by Washington's troops.1942 - Loss of USS Juneau (CL-52) during Battle of Guadalcanal results in loss of Five Sullivan Brothers...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:34 AM
Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet flagship USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) arrived in Varna, Bulgaria Nov. 8 to officially kick off the multinational Black Sea Partnership Cruise (BSPC), set to commence Nov...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:32 AM
The Navy's unique, high-tech simulator of shipboard emergencies to test Recruits at Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes won a national award for construction project excellence Nov. 3.Battle Stations 21's USS Trayer, a life-like mockup of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and its surrounding 157,000-square-foot building, was recognized by...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:31 AM
Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ:HERO) announced that John T. Rynd, Chief Executive Officer and President, will present at the Bank of America Energy Conference in Key Biscayne, Fl, on Friday, November 14, 2008, at 9:20 a...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:28 AM
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. announced that the company's President, E. Nikolas Tavlarios, is scheduled to present at the Stephens Fall Investment Conference in New York on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:00 a...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:27 AM
The Panama Canal Authority issued an Advisory summarizing operations during October. It can be viewed at http://www.pancanal.com/common/maritime/advisories/2008/a-28-2008.pdf.The Advisory also provides a schedule of planned locks maintenance work for the remainder of the fiscal year. (Source: Holland Knight)
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:26 AM
The California State Lands Commission (SLC) released its Ballast Water Treatment Technology Testing Guidelines, available at: http://www.slc.ca.gov/Spec_Pub/MFD/Ballast_Water/Documents/TestingGuidelinesFinal_101008...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:25 AM
In an unpublished decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that an award of prejudgment interest is the rule rather than the exception in actions under general maritime law.In the instant case, an anchor of one of defendants ships lodged in and damaged plaintiffs offshore pipeline...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:24 AM
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that failure to train a master on how to properly use electronic navigation equipment does not make the vessel owner fully liable for an allision nor does it prevent the vessel owner from limiting its liability when there is insufficient evidence to prove that such failure to train was the cause...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:23 AM
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report stating that some federal agencies have taken steps to strengthen the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), but that more effort is needed to expand the program...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:22 AM
On 11 Nov 2008, an attack by pirates on the Indian ship MV Jag Arnav in the Gulf of Aden was thwarted by an Indian naval warship patrolling in the area.This attack on MV Jag Arnav took place at about 1030 h on the morning of 11 Nov 2008, when the ship was 60 nm east of Aden...
Posted 11/13/08 at 09:21 AM
According to a Reuters report, Somali pirates have hijacked a second ship chartered by chemical tanker shipping group Stolt-Nielsen. Gunmen seized the Stolt Strength in the Gulf of Aden on the afternoon of Nov. 10, nearly two months after they hijacked Stolt Valour, a chemical tanker on its way to India.(Souce: Reuters)
Posted 11/12/08 at 10:00 AM
The Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) has decided to award the contract for the possible salvage of the U-864 submarine and its cargo of mercury to Mammoet Salvage B.V.Two options have been proposed to deal with the environmental hazard formed by the mercury in the U-864 submarine: (a) to encase the wreck and cover the seabed to prevent the...
Posted 11/12/08 at 09:55 AM
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) surveyors from the Southampton Marine Office have completed a full inspection of the Queen Elizabeth 2 liner after its Nov. 11 grounding near the Brambles sand bank in the Solent, and they have given the all clear for the ship to continue on its final journey...
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