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[Update] Ships Waiting on Houston Channel Cleanup

By The Maritime Executive

March 26, 2014

The backlog of ships waiting to sail in or out of the Houston Ship Channel fell on Wednesday as crews cleaned a fuel oil spill in Galveston Bay, the head of the Houston Pilots said. The U.S. Coast Gu...

[Update] Channel Slowly Reopens; Vessel Queue Tops 100

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

The Houston Ship Channel, a critical waterway for oil shipments, gradually reopened on Tuesday after a four-day closure that forced at least one big refiner to cut output and caused a backlog of more...

Deepwater Horizon Oil Disrupts Heart Development in Tunas

By The Maritime Executive

March 25, 2014

Crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster causes severe defects in the developing hearts of bluefin and yellowfin tunas, according to a new study by a team of NOAA and academic scientists. T...

Exxon Valdez - Changed a Nation 25 Years Later

By The Maritime Executive

March 24, 2014

Photo Source: http://greenpeaceblogs.org/ On March 24, 1989, the worst oil spill of its time began when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, ran aground on Bligh’s Reef in Prince William Sound. About 257,00...

Gard Takes Action Regarding Nissos Amorgos Incident

By The Maritime Executive

March 19, 2014

Gard has announced that is has filed proceedings in the English High Court of Justice against the 1971 IOPC Fund to resolve outstanding issues in the Nissos Amorgos oil spill incident. Gard seeks a ru...

GSF Calls For Investigation into P3 Proposal

By The Maritime Executive

March 18, 2014

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[Update] 6 Navies Later, No Sign of Vanished Plane

By The Maritime Executive

March 10, 2014

Ships from six navies, dozens of military aircraft, sweeps with radar technology that can spot a soccer ball from hundreds of feet in the air - all have failed to find a single confirmed trace of a Ma...

Settlement Ends Price-Fixing Case for 2 Shipping Firms

By The Maritime Executive

March 10, 2014

Sea Star Line LLC and Horizon Lines LLC have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by fixing the price of government cargo transportation contracts between the continen...

Australia?s Nuship Canberra Starts Sea Trials

By The Maritime Executive

March 6, 2014

Nuship Canberra, one of two Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ships being built for the Australian Defence Force (ADF), has left the yard at BAE Systems in Victoria headed for Sydney on its first period o...

Electronic Charts Completed for Pacific Islands

By The Maritime Executive

March 6, 2014

New Zealand’s Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga have welcomed the completion of electronic navigational charts for the south-west Pa...

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