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Sep 29, 2009
A 33-ft response boat from U.S. Coast Guard Station Venice, La., monitors efforts to free the grounded tank vessel Eagle Tucson, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, near Pilottown, La.
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Sep 29, 2009
On Sunday, September 27th, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (Oslo: AKPS), a U.S. commercial shipyard, launched Ship 012. The eighth in a series of 12 product tankers to be completed by 2011,
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Sep 29, 2009
CMA CGM reached agreement on the establishment of a committee comprised of French, European and international banks including certain major financial institutions from Asia and the Republic of Korea.
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Sep 29, 2009
The Coast Guard is continuing to monitor an oil spill approximately nine miles offshore of Savannah after a tank ship damaged its double-hulled fuel tank during
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Sep 29, 2009
The three mile portion of the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel that was closed due to an oil spill Sept. 25 opened at 12:45 p.m. Sept. 28 to vessel traffic.
The channel,
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Sep 29, 2009
September 21, 2009 Clay Maitland, Founding Chairman of the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA), announced that the United States Coast
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Sep 29, 2009
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) announced that its ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig Deepwater Horizon has been awarded a three-year contract extension by a subsidiary of BP p.
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Sep 29, 2009
Davie Yards Inc. (TSX:DAV) announced the appointment of Alain Tanguay as Chief Financial Officer of the company effective immediately.
Tanguay comes to Davie
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Sep 29, 2009
Alan C. McClure Associates (ACMA), a naval architecture and engineering firm, recently announced that the company has been selected to develop shipyard construction-level
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Sep 29, 2009
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings will chair a hearing of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, to review the Coast Guard’s Search and Rescue (SAR) Mission.
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Sep 29, 2009
Cory Brothers Shipping Agency is delighted to announce the operation of a new route between Dublin, Ireland and Tin Can, Lagos, Nigeria.
The new monthly route
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Sep 29, 2009
1899-First Navy wireless message was sent via the Lighthouse Service Station at Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey.
1943-CGC E.M. Wilcox foundered off Nags Head, NC.
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Sep 29, 2009
1800 - U.S. concludes treaty of peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.
1944 - USS Nautilus (SS-168) lands supplies and evacuates some people from Panay, Philipppine Islands.
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Sep 29, 2009
A Sept. 29 report from Bloomberg stated that China and South Korea’s support for shipbuilders may add to a glut of capacity, slowing a recovery in freight rates and vessel prices.
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Sep 29, 2009
According to a Sept 29 report from Reuters, ThyssenKrupp AG (TKAG.DE) is selling part of its civil shipyards as the economic downturn hits shipbuilders around the world.
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Sep 29, 2009
According to a Sept 28 report from Reuters, Italy's oil and gas major Eni (ENI.MI) has bought majority stakes in two offshore exploration licenses in Ghana, making
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Sep 29, 2009
Metal Trades, Inc. (Hollywood, SC) has built and delivered the outer hull for a double hull fuel barge conversion for Cross State Towing Company of Jacksonville, FL.
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Sep 29, 2009
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L'Enfant Plaza, S.
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Sep 29, 2009
Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur is continuing to coordinate response operations to recover oil from a submerged ship wreck 6 miles off Texas Point in the Gulf of Mexico, Friday, Sept.
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Sep 29, 2009
The Coast Guard is responding to an oil spill approximately nine-miles offshore of Savannah after a tank ship punctured a hole in its double-hulled fuel tank during
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