Crowley Launches New Caribbean Shipping Service
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services group announced today that it has launched a new feeder shipping service connecting San Juan, Puerto Rico; Rio Haina, Dominican Republic; and St. Croix and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI).With the new service, vessels depart Rio Haina on Sundays and arrive in San Juan on Tuesdays. After departure on Thursdays, cargo arrives in St. Thomas and St. Croix on Fridays, before the vessel moves to the Dominican Republic again for Sunday operations.
Fugawi Debuts Quilted Charts
Industry leading online chart service Fugawi X-Traverse, announced today that in coordination with GPSNavXTM and its app, iNavX, the availability of quilted raster charts for the navigation app’s most recent version. One of the most established marine navigation apps on the Apple iOS platform, iNavX brings the latest marine navigation features to iPhone and iPad users. In an exciting revision of the top-selling app, iNavX adds greater functionality to its already robust feature set. Offering users the ability to plot position in real-time on multi-touch marine charts with scroll, zoom and rotate, the app can also act as a repeater for popular marine navigation software that supports NMEA data over TCP/IP. They weather forecasts; and even an anchor alarm.
Tropical Depression Detected in Southern Caribbean
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said Wednesday that a tropical depression had formed in the Atlantic Ocean and was about 975 miles east of the Windward Islands in the southern Caribbean. As of 11:00 a.m. EDT Tropical Depression 4 was moving to the west at a rate of 23 miles per hour. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 miles per hour (55 kph) and some strengthening is possible in the next 24 hours, the NHC said. The National Hurricane Center forecast showed that Tropical Depression 4 was expected to attain hurricane strength within 48 hours and was on track to reach the Caribbean island of St. Lucia as a hurricane within 72 hours. St. Lucia is about 300 miles southeast of the island of St. Croix, home to a giant 545,000 bpd Amerada Hess Corp.
