A Marshall Island flagged chemical tanker, UBT Ocean, is reported to have been hijacked on March 5, 300 nautical miles from Dar El Salam. The Norwegian owned UBT Ocean was not registered on MSCHOA. UBT Ocean has a crew of 21 and they are all from Myanmar/Burma.
A total of 60 vessels have now signed up to the 2010 Tall Ships’ Race, which will hold its finale in Hartlepool. The international event is expected to attract more than one million visitors. The ships will arrive on 7 August from Kristiansand in Norway and leave a few days later in what organisers
La Push, WA – In conjunction with the United States Coast Guard, and various other state agencies, the dredge Nehalem that sunk late last month in the channel entrance of La Push was raised late Saturday night… [mappress] Source: Olympic Peninsula Enviromental News, March 7, 2010
A tiny marine bristle worm has stopped dredges from pumping sand along Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach for the past decade, while officials spent almost $68 million bulking up the oceanfront to the north and south… [mappress] Source: Florida Today, March 7, 2010
Sea level rise creates new business opportunity and “green jobs” that we’ll see more of, borne from the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise. The first floating island has just been commissioned this week by the sinking island nation of the Maldives, from Dutch Docklands… [mappress] Source:
The minister of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), Javier Flores Galarza, along with the minister of the Presidency, Rodrigo Arias Sánchez, visited the regions of Ortega and Bolsón of Santa Cruz, Guanacaste,in order to observe the lower bank of the Tempisque river… [mappress] Source:insidecostarica,Ma
The folks at Dole are looking forward to the day when a deeper shipping channel on the Delaware River might allow them to bring in their fruit in bigger ships… [mappress] Source:delawareonline,March 7,2010;
GREEN BAY – More than $12.5 million in state grants will be used to improve ports and add jobs in Green Bay and Manitowoc… [mappress] Source:fox11online,March 7,2010;
The Bashundhara Group (BG) has decided to become a supporting force of the government in pacing up the capital dredging project for the major rivers and the coastal belts… [mappress] Source: The Financial Express, March 7, 2010
Russian investors would like to develop a coal terminal at Liepaja Port, according to the newspaper Bizness&Baltija. The planned investment is from EUR 50 to 100 million (LVL 35-70 million), but the time period for the implementation of the project has not been revealed… [mappress] Source: The Balti
A BOOZY sea captain who was drunk in charge of a ship on the Tyne has been fined… [mappress] Source: The Shields Gazette, March 5, 2010;
The U.K.’s leading renewable trade association RenewableUK Thursday called on the government to increase its financial support for marine… [mappress] Source: nasdaq, March 04, 2010;
The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) today expressed its serious disappointment with the federal government’s failure to expand and extend its very successful ecoENERGY for Renewable Power Program in the 2010 federal budget. Despite its expressed desire to harmonize climate change and clean
The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) today expressed its serious disappointment with the federal government’s failure to expand and extend its very successful ecoENERGY for Renewable Power Program in the 2010 federal budget. Despite its expressed desire to harmonize climate change and clean
