The US Environmental Protection Agency has published their final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Vessel General Permit (VGP). Compliance within US waters has been extended until 06 February 2009.

DNV has issued its very first type approval certificate for a treatment system, which will reduce the spread of organisms through ballast water. The system has been developed by the Swedish company Alfa Laval.

ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TOP Ships Inc. (Nasdaq: TOPS) announced today that it has entered into a termination agreement in respect of an interest rate derivative contract for a termination payment of $5.0 million.

Earlier today (January 6, 2009) following the total natural gas cut of supplies from Russia through Ukraine, Bulgarian president Georgi Parvanov, announced that Bulgaria will reopen one of the  power plants closed several years ago after the notorious accident which resulted to large amounts of radioactivity spread in the area. Bulgaria had closed.......

Crisis has hit Lagos ports again in the New Year as over 65 ships queue to discharge their consignments at ports. The 65 ships consist of both petroleum tanker vessels, containers, bulk cargoes and refrigerated ships with frozen fishes.

To understand how a marine magnetic compass is used it is necessary to understand the basic magnetic field of an ordinary magnet. The analogy of the sheet of iron filings used in the school physics lab is a good one. When a magnet is placed beneath the sheet of iron filings, they form themselves into a pattern illustrating the lines of magnetic

Course of events
While testing the on-load releases on the port lifeboat, the lifeboat began to list to port, and capsizing of the boat was only avoided owing of the skill of the sailors and technicians on
board.
Extent of damage
No personal or material damage took place in this incident.

We re back on track and ready to start the New Year with full force and anticipation for the best and for the worst.
It’s the kind of market that makes you twice as reluctant and at the same time twice as risky. During the last days of 2008, many economic personas have claimed that the worst was yet to come, making 2009 a really difficult year.

SOLAS Chapter III, Regulation 20.3 requires maintenance, testing and inspections to be carried out in a manner which will ensure the reliability of lifesaving and launching appliances. Regulations 20.6, 20.7 and 20.11 require shipowners’....

TAIWAN’S Evergreen Marine Corp has rejected a local media report that it plans to spend more than $5.5bn to build 100 new boxships by 2012.

Magnalight.com announced, the new additions of electric powered intrinsically safe or "explosion proof" fans and blowers to its range of explosion proof lighting products.

With our experience and well qualified personnel we can perform maintenance and repairs in situ, in main engines, diesel generators, turbines, pumps etc.

ACI’s Ship Management Conference will explore new relationships that are being created between ship owners and managers and the impact of this on the way ships are managed......

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