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13 Feb 12 - 13:56
Weekly Newsletter 7
13 February 2012

Notice Board

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Safety4Sea Energy Efficiency Survey : Your opinion matters!

 

Latest Analysis and Opinions

Piracy - Armed Guards Revisited And General Overview

The Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy

Mobile Offshore Drilling Units : Corrosion Management

A question of morality and cowardice

Costa Concordia accident: A Fine Balance

Intertanko and the EEDI : seeking a level playing field

STCW Hours of rest: Have you done the math lesson ?

IHO Data Check - Legal Implications

Costa Concordia Lessons

Maritime Labour Convention Inspectors Addressing the Human Element

Human factors in surveyor training - meeting the challenge

The need for human element competence among Classification Society Surveyors

 

Major Issues of the Week

Cruise Industry Associations Adopt New Muster Drill Policy

Tokyo MOU CIC on Structural Safety and LLines Outcome

Port of Antwerp publishes its first ever sustainability report

Somali Piracy's Impact on the Global Economy Nears $7 Billion in 2011

ICS Board meets in London

The EU joins hands to tackle instability in Somalia

 

Videos of the week

Interview With Michael Crye of CLIA

Shipwreck Hunters Find Second 'UFO' on Ocean Floor

Maersk launches new corporate movie

Roots of Somali piracy

NATO Counter Piracy Video

MOL : Safety First

 

Safety issues

Cruise safety drill: A welcome change to inadequate rules

Safety of passenger ships

IMO: Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and Gases (BLG)

Ballast water sampling update

Isle of Man Ship Registry issues Marine Notice re Fire fighting protective clothing

Authorities stops navigation in Sea of ​​Azov and the Kerch Strait

New flags of convenience need scrutiny

BSEE and NOAA to Complete Arctic Oil Spill Response Mapping Tool

MARINA requires cargo securing manual from cargo ships

The subsea industry gathers to deal with deep-water lifting challenges

 

Alerts

Regulations re carriage of weapons and armed guards onboard vessels calling at Egyptian Ports

USCG issues Port Information Matrix

International Group issues FAQs on the new EU Iran Sanctions

Safety zone around floating mine

Intercargo issues Guide for the Safe Loading of Nickel Ore

 

Seafarers and Human Element Issues

Resolution of Philippine Crew Issue

IMO Secretary-General pledges support for Philippines maritime development

University of Greenwich Launches First MSc in Maritime Security

Horizon Lines Vessel Stages Predawn Rescue of Sailboat Passengers Adrift in Pacific Storm

Year later, still no release for South African hostage couple

NIMASA to establish maritime academy in Delta

Vessel inspections at port target diseases

Somali pirates kidnap American writer

 

Environmental Issues

Arctic Oil Drilling Threatens Polar Bear Birthing Grounds

Feds Approve California Sewage Ban and Create Largest Coastal No-Discharge Zone in the Nation

FSA Joins Global Call For Carbon Emission Reduction From Ships

Keppel and ConocoPhillips to design first ice-worthy jackup rig for the Arctic Offshore

Ocean Microbe Communities Changing

Oldest Living Thing: Seagrass?

Plastic Pollution in the Oceans is Causing Problems

Potential of biofuels for shipping

Alarm cleared over sea ice off China coast

 

Security and Anti-Piracy Issues

Weekly Piracy Update

MV Free Goddess Hijacked

Somali pirates seize cargo ship with 21 Pinoy seamen

Pacific Fleet Task Unit Escorts Fourth Convoy Through Gulf of Aden

Somalia wants Sri Lanka help to combat piracy

Maritime Security and Surveillance Conference to provide insights into the future of the GCC

Laws, regulations, guidance re the provision of armed maritime security services already exist

West African pirates costing Maersk dearly

Pirates Release Vessel, Crew Without Ransom

Somali piracy threatening Yemen

Ship Guards Use Live Weapons in Drills

Philippines backs armed guards

 

Accidents, Penalties and Incident Investigation Issues

Sixteen men kicked off P&O Pacific Dawn cruise after brawl

Ship Owners Fined For Overloading

Malta-flagged ship owners disgraced after crewman turns whistleblower

Nine Foreign Ships Under Detention In The UK During December 2011

Costa Concordia: stricken cruise ship has shifted 60cm

BP wins exclusion of emails from oil spill trial

Massive rogue wave hammers cargo ship off the B.C. coast

Yangtze river pollution at port of Zhenjiang sparks panic in China

Rena disaster costing taxpayers $28m

MOL-operated Containership Rescues 116 Shipwreck Survivors off Papua New Guinea

 

Technology Issues

MARIS and Seagull in product specific ECDIS training link

Wartsila, MAN Enter Next Phase of HERCULES Project

Ship Pollution Control: MOL Demos Diesel Particulate Filter

Russia: Hotchya Marine to Build Extremely Quiet Vessel for Resource Studies

Maritime broadband said to be affordable

MMS Unveils Design for New Offshore Transfer Vessels

Martek BNWAS the first to be approved by USCG

Software against sub-standard shipping

 

Shipping and General Interest Issues

What are Weather Routing and Vessel Performance Monitoring?

Smaller shipping firms to tide through crisis better

Port Authority Needs Top-to-Bottom Overhaul of Management, Audit Says

Shipping industry looking to new sources of funding

SEAaT takes on associate members

Credit squeeze threat to shipping industry: survey

Port of Hong Kong Prepares for Bigger Ships

Maersk Suspends Oil Tanker Trade Deals with Iran After EU Sanctions

Building the Rotterdam of the South

Bad weather does not affect shipping in Caspian Sea

Tom Hanks to star in Somali pirates rescue film

New IMO Secretary Genera Visiting Manila

 

 

 

 

 

 

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