Tag: New York

New York prepares for LNG ferries

EPA Invests $2.7 Million to Reduce Air Pollution from Old Diesel Engines in New York and New Jersey

NTSB Provides an Investigative Update on the Seastreak Wall Street Ferry Accident

Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia Meets in New York

New York Floating Venue for NAMEPA Conference

Ports of New York & New Jersey Boating Harbor Guide

Port Authorities have approved approved an incentive programme for ocean vessels The Port Authority Board of Commissioners for the Port of New York and New Jersey have approved approved an incentive programme for ocean vessels. The three year, $4.875 million Ocean-Going Vessel Clean-Vessel Incentive (CVI) programme aims to encourage ship operators to improve their engines, use cleaner fuels, and upgrade their technology to reduce emissions from ocean-going vessels, which are the largest source of air pollutants at port-related facilities.As part of the Port Authority's Clean Air Strategy, the CVI provides financial incentives to ships achieving a score of 20 points or higher based on the World Port Climate Initiative's Environmental Ship Index (ESI). The ESI is a worldwide mechanism that awards points to vessels that exceed the environmental standards set by the International Maritime Organization. Additional points are allocated to vessels that participate in the speed-reduction program, which would reduce speed to no more than 10 knots starting 20 nautical miles from the entrance to the New York New Jersey harbour.Currently, 14 European ports have an ESI incentive program; the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey would be the second U.S. port, after the Port of Los Angeles, ...

New regulations will put 72,000 jobs and $10.7 billion on both borders at serious risk. Last week New York state officials announced that they will be implementing stringent ballast water treatment standards for all vessels crossing the St. Lawrence, which according to a new study will put 72,000 jobs and $10.7 billion on both borders at serious risk.While the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway already possesses some of the strictest regulations when it comes to the prevention of invasive species via ballast water, New York is going to require that all ships transiting through its waters to install equipment that will sterilize ballast water to a standard 100 to 1,000 times the current international standards. The legislation says that the ships must have the equipment installed for 100 times international standard by August 1st, 2013, and 1,000 times standard by August 1st, 2014.Scientists and shipping industry are both left appalled, as the regulations would nearly choke all trade between the passages. Executives of the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp., the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. and various shipping firms have said that this type of regulation is impossible to meet. A study by Martin Associates, an economic consulting ...

The purpose of the extension was to allow vessel operators additional time for evaluation INTERTANKO reported that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) had extended the deadline for filing extension requests for new vessels that are constructed on or after 1 January 2013 to install ballast water treatment systems. The extension is from 30 June 2011 to 30 September 2011.Following on from this, and after requests from Members, a standard letter template has been developed for Members to use in requesting exemption from the implementation of the requirements for new vessels constructed after 1 January 2013. AThe purpose of the extension was to allow vessel operators, who may be requesting an extension, additional time to evaluate several soon-to-be-issued scientific and regulatory documents and studies. These are summarised in a letter template (see below) and provide justification for granting an exemption for vessels constructed after January 1 2013 from these stringent discharge requirements.The main basis for this exemption request is the EPA's Science Advisory Board report which concludes that current ballast water treatment systems would have to be wholly changed to be able to meet the 1000x IMO discharge standards. Furthermore, the EPA study concludes that, even with ...

Rescue at Water's Edge To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, members of the U.S. Merchant Marine share how they helped evacuate people from lower Manhattan and brought supplies and first responders back to the World Trade Center site. More than 300,000 people were evacuated by water on 9/11 - the largest unplanned water evacuation in the history of the United States.