Overview of National BW requirements amendments
SQEMARINE provides an overview of the major changes in a number of national, regional and local ballast water management regulations issued lately.
Read moreSQEMARINE provides an overview of the major changes in a number of national, regional and local ballast water management regulations issued lately.
Read moreThe first LNG tanker to transit the newly expanded Panama Canal last month,the Maran Gas Apollonia, has now become the first to arrive in China with a cargo of US LNG.
Read moreThe American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) applauded the Massachusetts state legislature which just passed a new law that will dramatically expand procurement of renewable energy in the state.
Read moreResearchers at the Ohio State University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have uncovered previously hidden sources of ocean pollution along more than 20 percent of America's coastlines.Their study offers the first-ever map of underground drainage systems that connect fresh groundwater and seawater, and also pinpoints sites where drinking water is most vulnerable to saltwater intrusion now and in the future.
Read moreThe Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has released an analysis which proves that US East and Gulf Coast military installations are at risk of losing land—where vital training and testing grounds, infrastructure and housing now exists—as sea level rise moves the high tide line inland in decades to come.
Read moreA court in Charleston, South Carolina has charged the Liberian company Aegean Shipping Management and Marshall Islands-registered shipowner Aegeansun Gamma, as well as three engineering officers, with conspiracy and failing to keep accurate pollution control records.
Read moreThe master of the container ship Horizon Trader has won an appeal at a US court and been awarded over $1 million in damages following a whistleblowing incident. The court found that Loftus’ right to be free of retaliation for whistleblowing was violated, and that Horizon Lines could not provide clear evidence that he would have been demoted regardless of his actions
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) had illegally approved a permit authorizing the Navy to use its high-intensity long-range sonar – called low-frequency active sonar (or LFA) – in more than 70 percent of the world’s oceans.
Read moreIncat Crowther has announced the design of a new fleet of vessels for Hornblower, the operator of New York City’s new Citywide Ferry Service.
Read moreIndia and the United States have agreed to deepen the scope of cooperation in the maritime sector with the American ports evincing keen interest in comprehensive port-led development, especially the ambitious Sagarmala programme.
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