The Port of Antwerp, Belgium, has installed an Internet-based biometric identification and credentialing card-management system from Ingersoll-Rand Maritime Solutions. When fully deployed, it is estimated that credentials for more than 20,000 longshoremen, truck drivers and other employees and visit
A federal judge will allow the Coalition for Buzzards Bay to join the state’s efforts to defend the state from a lawsuit challenging a law intended to prevent offshore oil spills. The coalition, an environmental advocacy group, says the law is worth defending. “Across the board, this is the best law
Fuel smuggling has become rife on the borders of Indonesia and Singapore and several ships have already been apprehended.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) today releases its final report (M02W0135) into the investigation of a switchboard fire aboard the Statendam in the waters of the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia. On August 4, 2002, the passenger vessel Statendam embarked passengers in Vancouver, B
With an estimated 162 non-native species causing billions of dollars in damage in the Great Lakes, Michigan is considering requiring maritime shipping companies to get permits to dock at ports in the state. Michigan would be the first state to require ballast-water permits on the Great Lakes.Ballast
Controls on Baltic fisheries have taken a step forward since the accession of Poland to the European Union. Joe Borg, the European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, hailed the improvement in a visit to Warsaw yesterday.
ESPO, the European Sea Ports Organisation in collaboration with the Malta Maritime Authority will be hosting the prestigious ESPO 2005 Conference in Malta between the 28 and 29 of April. The theme of this year’s conference at the Hotel Le Meridien Phoenicia is “SYNERGIES FOR AN EU SEAPORT POLICY – M
In the presence of the Honourable Geoff Regan, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, L-3 Communications MAS, a member of the Sikorsky-led Maritime Helicopter Team, today launched the construction of a new $45-million Maritime Helicopter Training Centre for the Canadian Forces in Shearwater, Nova Scotia.
Jose Manuel Barroso, the European commission president, yesterday refused to withdraw from handling competition cases involving the shipping industry despite fresh controversy over his links with Spiros Latsis, a shipping and banking billionaire. Mr Barroso was forced to disclose this week that he a
Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry presented a draft law Thursday that aims to promote the listing on the Athens Stock Exchange of Greek and foreign shipping companies or holding companies with links to the sector. The law has a twofold aim, the ministry said: to improve the investment climate of the
The volume of shipping cargo handled in the port of Antwerp during the first quarter of 2005 amounted to 39,239,923 tonnes. This represents an increase of 4.8% compared with the 37,452,879 tonnes handled during the same period in 2004. On the import side there was a rise of 7.3%, while exports were
The New Hampshire Senate yesterday approved a bill that would spend $100,000 on efforts to keep the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard open, but it may take awhile to go into effect. The Senate cast a unanimous voice vote to send a clear message to federal authorities that the state is firmly behind the ship
The House voted late Wednesday to allow oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge as part of a broad energy bill that Democrats said would funnel billions of dollars to highly profitable energy companies while doing little to promote conservation or ease gasoline prices. The bill’s sponsors said oil
Caterpillar Inc. today reported first-quarter sales and revenues of $8.34 billion and record profit of $581 million, or $1.63 per share. Sales and revenues were up 29 percent and profit was up 38 percent compared to the first quarter of 2004. “These record results are further evidence of the strengt
