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  • Dredge Workboat Capsizes Near Charleston

    12 April 2019
    Business & Finance

      The U.S. Coast Guard – together with the crews from the partner agencies – is searching for a missing mariner after a dredge workboat capsized near Charleston Harbor Thursday. According to the USCG report, the two mariners were on the workboat when it capsized, one was recovered by the dredge. Coast Guard Sector Charleston […]

  • Port of Amsterdam Names New Sustainable Patrol Vessels

    29 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    On 18 April, Port of Amsterdam named two new sustainable patrol vessels designed and built by Damen Shipyards Group in Gorinchem. The official naming ceremony was performed by Port of Amsterdam CEO Dertje Meijer, who named the Pollux, and State Harbourmaster Janine van Oosten, who named the Castor. The two vessels are replacing Patrol Vessel […]

  • Report: Second explosion in one year on Aces FPSO in Pakistan

    10 November 2017
    Infrastructure

    A fire broke out this week aboard the partially scrapped ACES FPSO at a shipbreaking plot in Gadani Pakistan. This is according to the Shipbreaking Platform NGO, which on Thursday said that luckily no workers got caught in the flames of the fire that broke out aboard the Aces on Wednesday. However, the Shipbreaking Platform […]

  • Eight boats damaged in yard blaze

    11 May 2007

    Eight boats have been severely damaged in a fire at a boatyard in Hampshire. About 75 firefighters tackled the blaze at the yard in Vespasian Road, Bitterne, Southampton, in the early hours of Friday.

  • Readers’ Picks of the Week (Aug 18 – 24, 2014)

    24 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Strike at Ningbo Port Turns Violent A massive strike by as many as 10,000 truck drivers at Ningbo’s Beilun Container Port erupted into violence on August 20, as protestors clashed with riot police and smashed the windshields…Read more Engine-Room Fire Disables Tanker, Kills One Crewman U.S. Coast Guard air and cutter forces continue to assist […]

  • Simtronics sizzle with firefighting deal

    14 October 2007

    Simtronics ASA received an order from Aker Floating Production ASA for a complete active fire fighting solution to the Aker Smart 1-FPSO conversion project.

  • West Hercules Not Ready for AoC Yet, PSA Norway Says

    9 October 2012

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit activity from 30 August to 1 September 2012 focusing on factors related to maintenance management, technical safety, working environment and preparedness on board the West Hercules facility. The PSA’s activity was carried out as part of the processing of the company’s application for an Acknowledgement […]

  • Bangladesh: Government Plans Jamuna River Dredging

    9 September 2011

    The government has approved installation of four power plants, one of which will be coal-fired.   (bdnews24) [mappress] Source: bdnews24, September 9, 2011

  • Canada: A.F. Theriault & Son Ltd Delivers RAnger 2400 Class Fireboat American United

    12 October 2011

    In October 2011, the new RAnger 2400 Class Fireboat, American United was delivered to the Massachusetts Port Authority, Boston by the builder A.F. Theriault & Son Ltd., of Meteghan River, Nova Scotia, Canada. The vessel, named in remembrance of September 11, 2001, was designed by Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C., who worked closely with […]

  • Beach Erosion Forces Preparations for New Beach Renourishment Project (USA)

    2 August 2011

    Erosion on Navarre Beach hampered fire department rescue efforts last week when rip currents were pulling unwary swimmers far off shore.   (nwfdailynews) [mappress] Source: nwfdailynews, August 2, 2011

  • Yantian Express Unloads All Containers, Leaves Halifax

    7 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    The fire-damaged Yantian Express finalized cargo operations in Halifax and departed the port on June 2, 2019.

  • Equinor restarts Hammerfest LNG production

    2 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    Norwegian oil giant Equinor has said the Hammerfest LNG is back in production after the fire in September 2020.

  • Gard: Challenges with the Use of Exhaust Gas Scrubbers

    21 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    In time, the related parties will gain experience and the frequency of scrubber-related incidents will decrease.

  • Japanese partners sanction construction of new LNG power plant

    13 October 2016

    Fukushima Gas Power project’s founding shareholders reached a decision to start the construction of a natural gas-fired power plant at Soma Port in Shinchi Town and approved the participation of three new project partners.

  • MetalCraft Marine Receives Order for Firestorm 69 (USA)

    6 October 2011

    City of Boston has ordered new state of the art fireboat with Chemical, Biological, Radiological emergency response capability for the Boston Fire Department. The MetalCraft Marine FireStorm 69 High-Speed Aluminum Fireboat represents a new generation in fireboat technology. It is a culmination of years of study and research into high volume pumping systems and their […]

  • Pella-Built RB-404 Tug Ready for Its Official Trials

    25 June 2013

    The tugboat “RB-404” (Building No 623, project 16609) has successfully passed its mooring and sea trials and it is ready for its official trials. The tugboat, being built by Pella shipyard, will be delivered to the Russian Navy and put into operation within Pacific Fleet of the Navy by the end of the year. The […]

  • Jensen Completes Design of PF&R’s New Fireboats

    17 December 2013

    Jensen Maritime, Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company, recently completed concept designs and performance specifications for two new fireboats that will join the city of Portland’s fire and rescue (PF&R) fleet in the first half of 2014. The new, fast-response fireboats will provide emergency response on long stretches of both the […]

  • DEC makes LNG available to fuel trucks

    28 January 2015

    Department of Environmental Conservation has adopted nation’s most stringent new regulations that will make LNG available to fuel trucks and for other purposes, New York State DEC’s Commissioner Joe Martens said.

  • Philippines: DOTC Grounds Island Express Shipping Vessels

    23 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Department of Transportation and Communications has grounded the fleet of Island Express Shipping, the company that owns the Cebu-bound passenger fast ferry from Bohol that caught fire Sunday, killing two passengers and a crew member. In a statement on Monday, DOTC Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II said he ordered the Maritime Industry Authority […]

  • Stricken Bulker Under Tow off Cape Town, Crew Evacuated

    7 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Greek bulk carrier Antaios, which suffered both fire and water flooding damage in its engine room, is currently under tow off Cape Town, according to the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA). The 27,776 dwt bulker, loaded with maize, ran into trouble some 860 nautical miles west of Cape Town on December 3 while it was on […]

  • NDRC Publishes China Wind Energy Development Roadmap to 2050

    21 October 2011

      China Wind Energy Development Roadmap to 2050 was first published on Wednesday and China’s wind power generating capacity could reach one terawatt (1TW) by 2050. The capacity would provide as much as 17 percent of China’s electricity output by 2050. It was estimated mat cost of wind powered electricity will be below mat of […]

  • Fisherman rescued after boat fall

    15 December 2007

    A fisherman was rescued by coastguard and fire crews after he fell onto the deck of a trawler. Emergency services were called out to Peel breakwater just before midnight on Saturday night.

  • Experts Look for Coal Energy Alternative (Australia)

    3 June 2011

    A local energy forum will today be told that new technology holds the key to reducing the north coast’s reliance on coal-fired power…   (abc) [mappress] Source: abc, June 03, 2011;

  • 156 Rescued from Burning Ferry off Spain

    29 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Spanish emergency services rescued 156 passengers and crew from a burning ferry some 20 nautical miles off Palma de Mallorca yesterday, the vessel’s operator Trasmediterranea reports. The Sorrento ferry was en route from Palma de Mallorca to Valencia when a fire was detected in one of its garages at around 13:50 local time yesterday. Four of the […]

  • Nigeria: Chevron Starts Drilling Relief Well to Seal Burning Funiwa

    19 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Chevron Nigeria Limited has begun the process of drilling a relief well to seal the Funiwa 1A natural gas well. The relief well is being drilled to extinguish a fire that began Jan. 16  when Chevron reported the fire outbreak aboard the K.S. Endeavor, a drilling rig offshore Nigeria operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited. […]