From The Mercury News – San Jose, CA Federal officials are charging Greek citizen Pantelis Thomas, who served as Chief Engineer aboard the Maltese flagged M/V RIO GOLD. Thomas is accused of ordering crew members to fabricate a “magic pipe” to illegally discharge oil and other hazardous substances overboard. One of the crew members turned [...]
The Supreme Court granted a generous break for ExxonMobile by slashing the punitive damages against the company stemming from the Exxon Valdez spill from $2.5 billion to a $500 million. More from the NY Times.
The NYTIMES printed an interesting article concerning the shortage of drill ships facing the industry. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/business/19drillship.html?ex=1371614400&en=5e4dab9b14cb5fe1&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
The IMO estimates there are 1.5 million seafarers worldwide, and this is the day we pay tribute to them all. The 25th of June has been designated by the IMO and it’s member states as “The Day of the Seafarer” as a means to pay tribute to the world’s estimated 1.5 million seafarers for the unique [...]
The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a Marine Safety Alert reminding operators of barges and tank vessels to ensure tank high velocity vent valves and vacuum valves or combination pressure/vacuum valves are maintained in proper operating condition at all times. This follows a recent marine casualty on board a chemical/oil product tanker in which a cargo tank was over [...]
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