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Ocean Shipping Executive Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing on Ocean Shipping Services for Cars and Trucks

US Treasury Department, has under 31 CFR 515, amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations

AMP has welcomed the decision of the United States Senate to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline

President Obama issued permanent protections from future oil and gas drilling for some of the Arctic Ocean’s most significant marine areas.  The U.S. President’s action is an important and positive step to limit risky drilling, and will help protect the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, including vital walrus habitat at the Hanna Shoal. At the same time, however, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a draft proposed program that calls for additional oil and gas lease sales in other areas of the Arctic. Source: Ocean ConcervancyIn the origin, I was explicit with you propecia before and after has changed my being. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.

Committee on the Marine Transportation System  (CMTS) has completed the report, “A 10-Year Projection of Maritime Activity in the U.S. Arctic Region,” which provides estimates of vessel traffic (numbers of vessels and transits) based on modeling of current vessel activity patterns, growth potential, and vessel projection scenarios, including diversion from other routes, and oil and gas development. The report also completes the first milestone of the National Strategy for the Arctic Region (NSAR) 2014 Implementation Plan, which is intended to guide Federal activities related to the construction, maintenance, and improvement of marine transportation Arctic infrastructure. A conservative estimate of the number of unique vessels operating in the Bering Strait and U.S. Arctic in 2025 is 420, resulting in approximately 877 transits though the Bering Strait, or an increase of 100 percent over current transit levels. The number of vessels for the high-growth scenario - incorporating all of the maximum growth elements for 2025 - is 1262, resulting in approximately 2637 transits, about a 500 percent increase in Bering Strait transits over current levels. Although the total number of vessels and transits is small when compared with other major shipping routes such as the Great Circle Route in the Pacific, the ...

NWF has commissioned and released a two-year study to examine the U.S. inland waterways

The California State Lands Commission (SLC) has published a letter addressing Ballast Water reporting requirements for vessels entering California. The vessels are required to submit the following three forms: Ballast Water Treatment Technology Annual Reporting Form Ballast Water Treatment Supplemental Reporting Form Hull Husbandry Reporting Form   To ensure compliance with reporting requirements under the Marine Invasive Species Act, operators are required to: Supply the Ballast Water Treatment Technology Annual Reporting Form, Ballast Water Treatment Supplemental Reporting Form and the Hull Husbandry Reporting Form (see below) to all vessel masters, owners, operators, or persons in charge; Inform vessel masters, owners, operators, or persons in charge of the submission requirements; Encourage submission of annual forms while a vessel is in California; and Remind clients that failure to comply with the form submission requirements may result in an administrative civil penalty. Penalties may be applied to the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of the vessel in an amount not to exceed $27,500 per violation, with each day of a continuing violation constituting a separate violation.   Ballast Water Treatment Technology Annual Reporting Form Beginning January 1, 2015, a vessel is required to submit this form once per calendar year ...

Exxon Mobil Corporation’s marine affiliate, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., named the Eagle Bay, the second of its two new U.S.-flag crude oil tankers, at a ceremony at Aker Philadelphia Shipyard. The first-in-class vessel, constructed at the shipyard, incorporates the latest safety, navigation and engine room technologies and will begin supplying crude oil from Alaska North Slope to refineries along the U.S. west coast later this year. The double hull Eagle Bay is 820-feet long and has capacity to carry 800,000 barrels of oil. SeaRiver Maritime’s contract with Aker for two tankers, valued at $400 million, delivered a significant economic boost to the greater Philadelphia region where it generated employment and millions of dollars in revenue. When placed into service, the new tankers’ economic contributions will extend across the United States to Alaska, California and Washington as they begin to support oil production and refining operations. They will replace two existing double hull tankers. “This project has had a significant economic impact, creating more than 1,200 jobs and generating millions of dollars in revenue for the city of Philadelphia, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and beyond,” said Andy Madden, vice president of ExxonMobil Supply & Transportation Company. “What we celebrate today is a ...

The California Air Resources Board has fined four shipping companies a combined $146,719 for failing to switch from dirty diesel “bunker” fuel to cleaner, low-sulfur marine distillate fuel upon entering Regulated California Waters – within 24 nautical miles of the California coast. “State anti-pollution laws require shippers to do their part to protect air quality,” said ARB Enforcement Chief Jim Ryden. “Shippers who comply are helping to protect the health of those who live, work, and go to schools near ports and shipping lanes.  Many Californians don’t realize that diesel soot and other pollutants can also travel far inland to impact communities nowhere near the sea.  Our Ocean-Going Vessels Fuel Rule strives to protect residents throughout the state from the harmful impacts of ship pollution.” Adopted in 2008, the Ocean-Going Vessels Fuel Rule was designed to reduce fine particulate pollution, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur oxide emissions from ocean-going vessels to improve air quality and public health in California. The companies mentioned below were fined for either failing to switch to cleaner fuel within, regulated waters, or for switching fuels in an untimely manner.  They all took prompt action after being notified of the violations, and, under ARB’s supervision, are ...