Port Hawkesbury News

Canada's Atlantic Pilotage Authority (APA) once again chose the Maritime Simulation and Resource Centre (MSRC) as its preferred training organization for specialized SEAiq training on Portable Pilot Units (PPUs). A total of 16 pilots from Cape Breton Island Pilotage were trained by MSRC's Captain Bernard Cayer in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. PPUs are mobile devices such as laptops or tablets that can plug in to a ship’s navigation system, giving pilots added situational awareness, including access to real-time downloadable local navigational information.

Canadian waters. diesel fuel while transferring the fuel from a supply vessel. provincial court. Court, and $35,000 to the Environmental Damages Fund. operations and to prosecuting marine polluters whenever there is sufficient evidence. imposed by the courts act as a deterrent for any would-be polluter. eliminate ship-source marine pollution in Canadian waters.

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. reportedly received a contract valued at more than $100 million to design and construct storage tanks for a new liquefied natural gas import terminal near Port Hawkesbury on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The facility will be owned and operated by Bear Head LNG Corp., a unit of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.