Just one month after oil major Chevron acquired independent producer Noble Energy, Israeli officials have slapped the company’s Leviathan platform with a $1.1 million fine for “blatant violations” of water pollution regulations. According to Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, Noble’s Leviathan gas platform obtained a permit to discharge process water into the sea when it […]
Next year marks the beginning of what the United Nations hopes will be a pivotal decade for the global ocean. The UN is mounting a massive operation to try to raise awareness of the many problems it faces, and to harness the scientific research needed to solve them. Called the UN Decade of Ocean Science […]
[Brief] On Saturday morning, a German-owned car carrier rescued three sailors from a yacht in distress off Bermuda. Watchstanders at the U.S. Coast Guard’s 5th District Command Center received a call from the Bermuda Rescue Coordination Center, which reported that an EPIRB had been activated aboard the sailing vessel Esmeralda. The captain of the yacht told […]
On Sunday morning, 15 foreign nationals were arrested by federal agents near Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida. According to Chief Patrol Agent John R. Madlin from the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami Sector, the individuals were involved in an unspecified “maritime smuggling event.” The number and nationality of the perpetrators – […]
[By Elliott Zaagman] A man who has earned a reputation for compromise and dealmaking over his half-century in Washington, Joe Biden has also won the presidency by presenting himself as a national unifier, while simultaneously putting forward a policy agenda that some consider to be the most progressive in American history. Presidential campaigns promising more than they […]
The U.S. Navy and Royal Navy are joining forces for hurricane relief in Honduras, which was hit hard by Hurricane Eta and is now in the path of Tropical Storm Iota – the record-breaking 30th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Iota is expected to reach major hurricane status before making landfall near […]
In a stunning move, the Mi’kmaq First Nations Coalition has partnered with a B.C.-based distributor to buy Clearwater Seafoods, the largest producer of shellfish in North America. Clearwater also happens to be one of the largest buyers of lobster in Nova Scotia, where one Mi’kmaq first nation has encountered fierce (and sometimes violent) local resistance […]
The Caribbean’s first cruise in more than seven months remains suspended while the company and local officials work to manage the reported outbreak of the coronavirus and keep the passengers comfortable. The situation remains fluid with the passengers reporting they are being well looked after but waiting for more definitive word on what will transpire. […]
Back in 1998, when I was the commander of the Canadian Forces Northern Area, I became concerned with the impact of global warming and the disappearance of the ice in the Canadian Archipelago. Although there were no apparent military threats to the Canadian Arctic at the time, there was nevertheless a concern with increasing risks […]
Fincantieri highlighted the shipbuilder’s ability to rebound and maintain its market position while reporting financial results for the first nine months of the year. The results, as anticipated, were adversely impacted by the coronavirus-related restrictions, which resulted in reduced production hours, postponement of deliveries and payments, and extraordinary expenses resulting from the current environment. “The […]
INTERCARGO, the association of dry bulk carriers announced its support for the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) new measures aimed at reducing the shipping industry greenhouse gas emissions. Expected to be passed at next week’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (MEPC 75), the measures have been hailed by some as the IMO’s first definitive steps while […]
Norwegian oil major Equinor has announced new details for a proposal to build an offshore wind tower manufacturing plant at the Port of Albany, New York, in partnership with tower fabricators Marmen and Welcon. It would be the first facility of its kind in the United States. Marmen and Welcon have already signed an MOU […]
