Environment

APL has signed an agreement to fit the main engine of one of its 10,000 TEU containerships with a fuel savings system that uses cavitation to create a highly stable heavy fuel and water emulsion. Developed by Neftech Pte. Ltd., Singapore, the system produces fuel savings that, says Neftech, have been certified by ABS as producing fuel savings of 7.6 percent on the main engine ...

With the Deepwater Horizon civil trial set to start on March 5, BP announced it had reached a $7.8 billion settlement with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC), subject to final written agreement, to resolve the substantial majority of legitimate economic loss and medical claims stemming from ...

The Marine Spill Response Corporation reports that it has completed its Gulf of Mexico expansion program known as Deep Blue. The new response capabilities created under this program are now ready to respond to an oil spill incident, if and when necessary.The key objectives of this expansion program include:Increasing the effectiveness of mechanical recover ...

Rolls-Royce has received a second order for a vessel from its award winning Environship range. It covers the supply of all the main systems and equipment, as well as the ship design for the fish feed carrier ordered from STX OSV at the end of last year by ...

GEA Westfalia Separator Group reports that its BallastMaster ultraV ballast water treatment system has been type approved as meeting IMO guidelines and regulations. The certification body is the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. The BallastMaster ultraV is a h ...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens has filed comments with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicating that New York will pursue a uniform, national ballast water standard that will leave in place the EPA's current standards in New York for the remainder of EPA's current Vessel General Permit through December 2013. ...

Classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) has issued new guidelines for gas-fueled ships. The guidelines specify requirements for the design of natural gas fueled ships based on the current draft of IMO'sInternational Code of Safety for ships using gases or other low flash-point fuels (IGF Code). The code governs safety aspects of the application of natu ...

MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC has agreed to settle its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in a settlement with the United States valued at $90 million, according to the Department of Justice, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the time of the spill, MOEX Offshore was a minority investor in the lease for the Macondo well. It no ...