ABS sues
Spain
ABS has instituted legal action against the Government of
Spain. The classification society is seeking recovery for any
claims made against it for damages arising from the Prestige
casualty.
S/S Norway towed
from Miami
Repair yard not yet named
Canada's largest
shipyard closes
End of road for Saint John Shipbuilding
Bollinger delivers
Bouchard ATB
Tenth OPA barge in Bouchard fleet
Austal USA wins
vehicle/passenger ferry contract
Austal USA has secured its largest order to date for the
construction of a 58 metre vehicle-passenger ferry
Round Table calls
for action on Places of Refuge
July 1, 2003 EU deadline is approaching
Stolt Nielsen
executive faces antitrust charges
Price fixing and bid rigging alleged
Costs of Kvaerner
Philadelphia box ship mount
Costs of the first containership from Kvaerner
Philadelphia will be about $28 million higher than reported--and
delivery has been pushed back by a month
Kvichak partners
Manitowoc on RB-M bid
Manitowoc's entry in the Response Boat Medium stakes will
be built by Kvichak Marine Industries
Shipyard for
Olympia?
Would-be containership operator Santa Maria has plans for
a shipyard in Olympia, Washington
Austal to build
world's largest multihull
126.7 m, 40 knot ferry for Fred Olsen
Conrad Industries
gets into aluminum work
Expansion in Amelia
ILO adopts seafarer
ID convention
A new Convention on Seafarers' Identity Documents
establishes a more rigorous identity regime for seafarers
Kvichak delivers
Griffon hovercraft
Kvichak Marine Industries of Seattle, WA, together with
Griffon Hovercraft, recently delivered a Griffon 2000TD hovercraft
to Crowley Marine Services Inc.
Yantai-Raffles wins
jack-up order
China's Yantai-Raffles Shipyard has completed the
negotiations for the construction of a new generation of
self-propelled jack-up.
Keppel Singmarine
gets orders
Keppel Singmarine (KSM), the specialized shipbuilding division
of Keppel Offshore & Marine, will build two Anchor Handling
Tug/ Supply (AHTS) vessels for CH Offshore Ltd, and two harbor tugs
for Maju Maritime Pte Ltd.
IMO elects new
Secretary General
Efthimios Mitropoulos of Greece will succeed William
O'Neil
AAPA calls
for more maritime security funding
Royal Caribbean and
Kvaerner Masa plan "Ultra Voyager"
The cruise ship newbuilding market could come back to life
with an order for two 3,600 passenger vessels
AAPA calls for more
maritime security funding
Recent DHS port security grants are "most welcome," but
the American Association of Port Authorities says more help is
needed
Ridge announces
port security initiatives
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge has announced new
port security initiatives and investments to provide increased
international cooperation, greater use of technology, and
additional funds for port security facility enhancements.
Senators oppose
raid on Waterways fund
Twenty-three Senators have written OMB expressing opposition
to a Bush budget proposal to tap into the Inland Waterways Trust
Fund
South Korea plans
WTO counter suit
South Korea is set to file a WTO counter suit in response
to the EU request for a panel to investigate alleged shipbuilding
subsidies offered by the Korean government.
World Bank unit
backs Brazil PSV venture
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private
sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, is to provide up to
$70 million to UP Offshore, a start-up shipping group with
subsidiaries incorporated in Brazil and Panama.
Asbestos slows NTSB
Norway probe
The NTSB has released more details of its investigation
into the S.S. Norway boiler room accident
EC takes another
step in shipbuilding row
Formally requests WTO panel on Korean shipbuilding
practices
Orders for Aker
German yards
Three 2,478 TEU containerships for $115 million
Navatek launches
Navy demonstrator
Lifting body technology could have ferry applications
Parsons gets master
agreement for NGSS $400 million shipyard plan
Parsons has been awarded a master services agreement for a
five-year, $400 million, facilities modernization and expansion
program at three Northrop Grumman Ship Systems sites
Austal wins Yemen
patrol boat contract
Australia's Austal Ships has won a contract to supply a fleet
of patrol boats to the Republic of Yemen, Ministry of Defense.
$96 million Caspian
contract for Keppel FELS
Platform and living quarters for TPG500 platform
Stolt Offshore wins
$112 million Angola contract
Installation of 100 km of pipeline
SEACOR orders river
barges
Trinity Marine Products to build 150 to 230 units
Senate hearings on
Title XI
The Senate Science Commerce and Transportation Committee held
hearings into management problems concerning the Title XI maritime
loan guarantee program
OPA response plan
requirements to cover non-tank vessels?
A maritime update from Blank Rome says that the
Administration's recently proposed Coast Guard Authorization Act of
2003 would among other things extend the reach of OPA 90 vessel
response plan requirements to non-tank vessels
Verreault to convert
Coast Guard ship to research vessel
Verreault Navigation Inc. has been awarded a Canadian
$5,973,810 competitive contract to refit and drydock the former
CCGS Sir John Franklin.
EU presses ahead
with post-Prestige measures
INTERTANKO says that it now seems clear that the European
Commission, the EU Member States, and the European Parliamentan
have reached an agreement on the Post-Prestige accelerated
phase-out of single hull tankers, the ban on single hull tankers
carrying heavy fuel oil and the wider introduction of CAS.
Questions on effort
to switch port security funds to aviation
Issue raised at Congressional hearing
DNV flying squads
battle substandard ships
Dedicated "Flying Squads" with experienced surveyors are one
element in a Five Point Plan established by classification society
DNV to step up the efforts to remove substandard shipping.
Red ink at Stolt
Offshore
Big losses from EPIC projects
USCG and Washington
State ink pollution accord
Reducing duplication of efforts
PEMEX contracts for
Diamond Offshore
$272 million revenues to be generated
SENESCO names new
investor as CEO
Former Stanley-Bostitch President Gary C. Schuler has become
an investor in shipbuilder SENESCO and has been named CEO
Seventh Norway
death, more cancellations
NCL has announced that another crew member has died following
the May 25 boiler room accident
