In early May, the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announced in Port Fourchon, La., that drilling measures implemented after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill would be eased.
In May, the Maritime Administration (MarAd) awarded a $39.1 million contract to TOTE Services to oversee the construction of a new class of training ships for the nation’s maritime academies.
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $15.7 billion injection of funds into the country’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) in May, it brought a mix of jubilation and disappointment from shipyards across the country.
International shipping will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 2008 levels by 2050 under new measures adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
In late May, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a marine safety bulletin warning that commercial vessels were being targeted by deceptive email messages and malicious software.
A recent annual survey that gauges how happy people are in their working life at sea is getting mixed reviews within the industry.
On the first day of 2017, everything seemed hunky-dory as the New York Power Authority (NYPA) assumed ownership of the New York State Canal Corp.
For 12 seasons, American viewers have been engrossed by the Smithsonian Channel’s “Air Disasters” series, which combines dramatizations of actual aircraft mishaps with accounts of how investigators ultimately determined what went wrong — and how to prevent similar accidents.
With sea trials completed, Brett Snow eased the first in a new series of U.S. Navy workboats into Ballard Locks on Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal.
Twenty-seven barges broke free from a fleeting area near Pittsburgh, Pa., before dawn on Jan. 13, 2018, after a period of heavy rain unleashed a torrent of water and ice down the Ohio River.
The bulk carrier Yochow approached a dogleg turn in the Houston Ship Channel when the pilot ordered the rudder hard to starboard.
The plan for turning the loaded bulk carrier was relatively straightforward: With help from three assist tugboats and the fast Mississippi River current, Shandong Fu En would spin almost 180 degrees off the dock for an outbound transit.
The towboat Steve Richoux was downbound on the Lower Mississippi River with six barges when the pilot lost control near the Crescent City Connection bridges in New Orleans and the tow slammed into a warehouse filled with Mardi Gras costumes.
The U.S. Navy has replaced the commander of a new combat ship that struck a moored bulk carrier while getting underway in the St. Lawrence River in Montreal.
A construction crane mounted on a deck barge clipped overhead electrical lines while the vessel was underway in the Elizabeth River, closing the waterway and knocking out power to thousands of Virginia residents.
Sunshine Bridge takes another hit, this time by tanker The Louisiana bridge that sustained serious structural damage last year when it was hit by a barge-mounted crane has been struck again, this time by an outbound tanker. The 600-foot Dank…
After decades of neglect and slow progress, mariners have grown more accustomed to donning survival gear — life jackets and immersion suits — or at least keeping the protection close at hand.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) provides the following definitions for survival suits.
In a April 2019 article in Professional Mariner, we discussed the probabilities of the U.S. Supreme Court allowing a Jones Act seaman to seek punitive damages for personal injuries caused by an unseaworthy condition under the pending case of Dutra Group v. Batterton.
It was the end of January, and I was the 4-8 watch officer on an oceanographic ship working near the Hawaiian islands of Kahoolawe and Maui.
