Report: Offshore Wind Pipeline Has Jumped 50 Percent Since January

13 Test Positive for COVID-19 Aboard Luxury Cruise Ship

By The Maritime Executive 11-01-2020 09:05:06

13 people aboard the Ponant cruise ship Le Jacques Cartier have tested positive for COVID-19, and the vessel has suspended her planned itinerary in order to return to port at Marseille. The outbreak began on October 26 when the vessel arrived at the port of Syracuse, Sicily. Two crewmembers were diagnosed with COVID-19, and the vessel initiated its response procedures. "We were arriving from Malta . . . and were to disembark in Syracuse, when, without explanation, we were refused...

How Wetlands Can Protect Coastal Communities

By China Dialogue Ocean 11-01-2020 06:55:19

[By Gan Xiaojing and Shi Jianbin] In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi delta in the state of Louisiana. The severe flooding that followed led to the death of 1,800 people. Over a million were displaced and the direct economic losses reached more than $100 billion. One of the worst natural disasters in US history was made much worse by long-term destruction of the delta wetlands, which would otherwise have absorbed much of the seawater that surged into the city of...

Locally made components for Taiwan's offshore wind farms

Locally Made Components for Taiwan's Growing Offshore Wind Sector

By The Maritime Executive 11-01-2020 05:17:16

Taiwan has a rapidly developing offshore wind energy sector supported by the government’s goal of growing renewable energy sources. The development of Taiwan’s offshore wind industry is seen as a model for other Asian countries and includes efforts to develop locally-sources components that can also be marketed globally. The Taiwanese government is following a policy calling for the phasing out of the country’s nuclear power plants by 2025, which currently account for nearly 10 percent of the island’s total electricity generation....

Decommissioned FSO Seeks Final Destination

By The Maritime Executive 11-01-2020 05:04:13

A decommissioned FSO that was sold to a Bangladeshi breaker for scrap is now anchored off Mumbai, awaiting news on her final resting place. The Radiant, ex name Jesslyn Natuna, is a 1983-built FSO previously flagged and operated in Indonesia. In 2018, ater she ceased her term of commercial service at the Natuna offshore field, she drifted aground near Tambelan. She was refloated and sold for scrap to a cash buyer, identified by NGO Shipbreaking Platform as SOMAP International. According...

Shipping

Decommissioned FSO Seeks Final Destination

Tugs & Salvage

Photos: Responders Battle Heavy Surf After Nine Swept Out to Sea

Last Wednesday, the RNLI St. Ives lifeboat and RNLI lifeguards were among the emergency services that responded to a major incident at Top Cove, near Gwithian, Cornwall, after nine people were swept into the sea by a giant wave. The photos show the St. Ives. lifeboat alongside RNLI lifeguard Barney Stevens (on a jet-ski) tackling huge swell from Hurricane Epsilon in order to respond to the incident. Another four lifeguards made their way over by land.

Government

Report: China's Squid Fishing Fleet Has Discovered the Indian Ocean

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund and shipping data firm Trygg Mat Tracking shows that unregulated fishing on the high seas of the Indian Ocean is on the rise. The Indian Ocean accounts for over 14 percent of global wild-caught fish, and commercial fishing data shows that 70 percent of the assessed stocks in the region are already overfished. The new WWF report shows that unregulated fishing, which is not factored into the 70 percent calculation, is increasing in...

Piracy

increase in armed robbery in the Singapore Strait

ReCAAP: Increase in Boardings and Armed Robbery in Singapore Strait

Ten days after reporting an overall rise in piracy incidents in Asia, the regional monitoring center ReCAAP issued an incident alert for the Singapore Strait. While the recent events were all minor thefts, they involved boardings of vessels underway causing ReCAAP to express concern over the increase in activity in the the area. The alert advises of three boardings of ships underway in the eastbound lane in the Singapore Strait. The three events took place in...

Cruise Ships

13 Test Positive for COVID-19 Aboard Luxury Cruise Ship

Ports

counterfeit pills and merchandise seized in port

Over $3.5 Million in Fake Pills and Merchandise Seized in California

US Government officers recently seized more than 31,000 counterfeit products arriving in a containerized cargo shipment from China into the Los Angeles-Long Beach seaport area. Containing everything from counterfeit pharmaceuticals to consumer goods, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) estimated that the goods had a retail value of over $3.5 million. The operation to intercept the counterfeit merchandise was a multi-agency effort encompassing officers from CBP assigned to the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport in coordination with import specialists from the Consumer Products and...

Shipping

Decommissioned FSO Seeks Final Destination

Tugs & Salvage

Photos: Responders Battle Heavy Surf After Nine Swept Out to Sea

Government

Report: China's Squid Fishing Fleet Has Discovered the Indian Ocean

Piracy

ReCAAP: Increase in Boardings and Armed Robbery in Singapore Strait

Cruise Ships

13 Test Positive for COVID-19 Aboard Luxury Cruise Ship

Ports

Over $3.5 Million in Fake Pills and Merchandise Seized in California

Offshore

Locally Made Components for Taiwan's Growing Offshore Wind Sector

Shipbuilding

Fincantieri Delivers Second New Cruise Ship Since Pandemic

Fincantieri delivered the new cruise ship the Silver Moon to Silversea Cruises, one of the brands owned by the Royal Caribbean Group. Built at the shipyard in Ancona, Italy, it is the second cruise ship that Fincantieri has completed since resuming operations after work was suspended in the spring due to Italy’s effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. At 40,700 gross tons, the Silver Moon is the second of three sister ships Fincantieri is building for Silversea. The...

Training

fraud scheme to sell fake mariner certificates

Four People Charged in $200K Fake US Coast Guard Credentialing Scheme

Four individuals have been charged in a scheme to sell phony US Coast Guard merchant mariner credentials, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The grand jury indictment alleges that the scheme netted over $200,000 in profits from the production and sale of the counterfeit certificates to over 150 mariners. Beginning in July 2016 and continuing through at least the end of 2019, it is alleged that the four individuals devised a scheme to defraud...

Business

Assembly-Line Concrete Bases for Floating Offshore Wind Towers

Ideol, a floating offshore wind startup based in France, has reached an agreement with Swedish manufacturer Bygging Uddeman (BYUM) for the serial production of floating concrete base structures for wind towers. BYUM is known for its moving gantry slipforming technology, which it invented in 1944. By removing the need for building up and removing forms, it lowers the cost of casting large vertical concrete structures - particularly caissons. It has been deployed for hundreds of major infrastructure projects around the...

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