Tag: Costa Concordia

During her recent port visit to the Seychelles, the EU Naval Force flagship, FGS Brandenburg conducted an oil spill exercise with units of the Seychelles Coast Guard, Air Force, Fire and Rescue Services, Port authorities and Maritime Safety Administration. The command team of FGS Brandenburg coordinated and planned the complex Local Maritime Capability Building exercise in cooperation with the EUCAP Nestor team in the Seychelles,who provided support in the planning, preparation as well as its execution, and the Seychelles authorities. The scenario started in the early morning of Wednesday 4 June 2014. The Seychelles Coast Guard received a simulated distress call reporting a collision between a ferry and an oil tanker in the coastal waters of Mahe. The collision had caused an oil leak and a small fire on board the tanker. German frigate, FGS Brandenburg provided assistance to the Search and Rescue (SAR) operation by sending her two speedboats to search for any crew members who may have fallen overboard. The rescue mission was also supported by an aircraft from the Seychelles Air Force, which patrolled the scene from the air. The Seychelles Port Authorities sent a tug with floating booms and oil barriers to contain the oil spill ...

The installation of the sponsons for refloating are progressing quickly at Giglio Island

The IMO's Committee on Maritime Safety (MSC) held its 93rd Session (MSC 93) from Wednesday 14 through Friday 23 May 2014 under the Chairmanship of Mr Christian Breinholt (DENMARK) and his Vice Chair, Captain M Segar of SINGAPORE). 104 Member States attended the meeting during which a drafting group (DG) and two working groups (WG) were subsequently formed and chaired as follows:

Installation of sponson S7 has been completed, the sixth of 15. Barge Micourier2 is at the site with sponsons S6 and S5 on board

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform, has sent a letter to the Italian Environment minister to demand the safe and clean dismantling of the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia in accordance with Italian law and European law, particularly the EU Waste Framework Directive and the EU Ship Recycling Regulation.

With regards to information appeared on media about a new disequilibrium of sponson S13 , Titan Micoperi clarifies that the technicians have worked all night to bring back S13, installed on the starboard side, in horizontal position.

The second of the 19 sponsons has been successfully installed on 2 May, 2014 or the refloating of the Concordia wreck have been completed

After 2 and an half days of work, the operations to install the first of the 19 sponsons to be positioned for the refloating of the Concordia wreck have been completed today at 1 pm

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report today that says the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans. The world, in many cases, is ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate. The report also concludes that there are opportunities to respond to such risks, though the risks will be difficult to manage with high levels of warming. The report, titled Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, from Working Group II of the IPCC, details the impacts of climate change to date, the future risks from a changing climate, and the opportunities for effective action to reduce risks. A total of 309 coordinating lead authors, lead authors, and review editors, drawn from 70 countries, were selected to produce the report. They enlisted the help of 436 contributing authors, and a total of 1,729 expert and government reviewers. The report concludes that responding to climate change involves making choices about risks in a changing world. The nature of the risks of climate change is increasingly clear, though climate change will also continue to produce surprises. The report identifies vulnerable people, industries, and ecosystems around the world. It finds that risk from a changing climate comes from vulnerability (lack of preparedness) and exposure (people or ...

Fujairah's growing energy industry will expand into biofuels with an $800 million plant announced by Petrixo Oil & Gas. Petrixo Oil & Gas, based in Dubai, had announced, it has completed the preparation of studies, engineering designs and selected the required Technologies to set up a Bio-fuel refinery in Fujairah, UAE with a design capacity of one million Metric Tons per year of Bio Fuel products, which include Bio diesel, Green Diesel, Bio Jet, Bio Naphtha and Bio LPG, with investment in excess of US$ 800 million. The project will be set up over about 460,000 square meters of land in proximity to Fujairah Free zone & Port of Fujairah. Where, Petrixo has incorporated a consortium of Major International companies and financial institutions to set up the project. Source: Petrixo Group  In the outbreak, I was outspoken with you propecia before and after has changed my subsistence. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.