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IMO Environment Meeting Completes Packed Agenda to Reduce Emissions of Greenhouse Gases

IMO Environment Meeting Completes Packed Agenda to Reduce Emissions of Greenhouse Gases

IMO adopted amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) to designate the United States Caribbean Sea as a new emission control area (ECA); to desi...

Global Shipbuilding and Repair: Riding the Rebound

Global Shipbuilding and Repair: Riding the Rebound

While not the best of times, it’s not the worst either, and these yards are doing a good job of staying more than afloat. By Robert Spicer Despite a global recession, finan...

Pirates Cost Shipping Industry $9 Billion Despite Security Measures

Pirates Cost Shipping Industry $9 Billion Despite Security Measures

By MarEx Staff Piracy is a looming fear haunting the maritime community at large. With the increasing frequency of attacks, more hot spot locations, bolder tactics, hiking ransom rates, and th...

Ships Collide Where Bayport and Houston Channels Meet

Ships Collide Where Bayport and Houston Channels Meet

The US Coast Guard reports that it is responding to a collision between a container ship and chemical tanker at the point where the Houston ship channel and the Bayport Ship Channel meet. At 9:...

EXECUTIVE ACHIEVEMENT: Thomas J. Bethel, National President, American Maritime Officers

EXECUTIVE ACHIEVEMENT: Thomas J. Bethel, National President, American Maritime Officers

By MarEx Staff Tom Bethel, National President of American Maritime Officers (AMO), the largest union of merchant marine officers in the U.S., was raised in Philadelphia by a family that worked...

Hempel Coating Systems for Crude Oil Tankers Meet Latest IMO Performance Standards

Hempel Coating Systems for Crude Oil Tankers Meet Latest IMO Performance Standards

Hempel protective coating systems, including a range of HEMPADUR products and shop primers have passed the laboratory tests required by the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) perform...

Guest Feature: Protecting Yourself Before, During and After a Pirate Attack

Guest Feature: Protecting Yourself Before, During and After a Pirate Attack

Written by Captain Richard Madden Part 1 Depending on the source, piracy in the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa (GOA/HOA) region is estimated to be costing the world economy between $5 and $10...

Crowley Purchases Two New Jones Act Tankers from Aker Philadelphia Shipyard

Crowley Purchases Two New Jones Act Tankers from Aker Philadelphia Shipyard

Acquisition Increases Diversity of Crowley’s Petroleum and Chemical Transportation Fleet, Marks Company’s Re-Entry into the Jones Act Tanker Market Crowley Maritime Corporation&rsqu...

Busy Agenda for IMO?s Maritime Safety Committee

Busy Agenda for IMO?s Maritime Safety Committee

Preview: Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), 91st session, 26 to 30 November 2012 IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) meets at the Organization's London Headquarters for its 91st session from 26...

Military Sealift Command's First Mobile Landing Platform Ship Floated from Dry Dock

Military Sealift Command's First Mobile Landing Platform Ship Floated from Dry Dock

Military Sealift Command's first Mobile Landing Platform ship completed its first float out operation at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, Nov. 13. Designated T-MLP-1, the ship...