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December 2005
• Japan to send troops to train with US forces and is developing new torpedoes to boost the defense of remote islands, including some disputed with China
• Taiwanese sailors to recreate Zhen He's epic sea voyage next July
• European aerospace group EADS, Germany's ThyssenKrupp Technologies will buy sonar equipment maker Atlas Elektronik from BAE Systems
• Malaysia says its new naval base on the northwestern island of Langkawi will improve security in the Malacca Strait
• Bangladesh vows to strengthen its Navy
• South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding aims to increase 2006 orders 47% from 2005 orders
• Cow-nosed rays are eating so many oysters and clams that Virginia officials are encouraging people to eat them
• State of California faces water problems as the Delta, one of its main sources, is failing
• Sri Lankan fishermen are still struggling to recover from the tsunami; industry support services still lacking
• Hudong-Zhonghua shipbuilding delivers China's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship
• Japanese whalers give Greenpeace activists the slip
• US shrimp industry tries to recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
• Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are working together to restore Lake Victoria
• Scientists at the Tennessee Valley Authority power plant are using underwater strobe lights to try to keep fish away from pipes
• Singapore health authorities conclude that fresh Norwegian farmed salmon is safe to eat
• Pakistan releases the report of the Technical Committee on Water Resources
• Two Chinese fishermen survive after 11 days at sea
• Pirates continue to hamper food aid deliveries to hunger- stricken people in Somalia
• Royal Navy diet was so good during the Napoleonic wars that researchers call it one of the reasons England triumphed over its enemies
• Europe launches satellite navigation system to rival GPS
• Brazil's Petrobras delays dry dock bidding deadline to January 17, the dock would allow for construction of offshore platforms in Brazil
• Argentina's shipyard Astilleros Navales Unidos is one of many bankrupt companies now being run by workers
• US Congress aims to curb overfishing
• Septic tanks are more responsible than previously believed for the nitrogen runoff that fouls lakes, streams and waterways in the US
• 300 million Chinese drink unsafe water
• The abalone, the most expensive and most endangered seafood in the world, could be driven to extinction by poachers
• Missing view port on the Confederate submarine HL Hunley calls into question the prevailing theory of its disappearance
• Ruptured pipeline at a Broadway oil facility was the source of an oil spill in the Chelsea River
• South Korea's top three shipbuilders will likely win record-high orders worth US$23.3 billion in 2005
• South Korea's third-largest steel manufacturer, Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., lowers prices of steel plates in response to a decrease in prices of slabs
• Japan accuses Greenpeace of piracy
• Russia may ban distribution of sturgeon, caviar
• Local fishermen demand a ban on deep-sea trawlers
• Officials try to find source of oil spill in the Mystic River in Chelsea
• 13 remain missing from shipwreck on the east China Sea as rescue work ends
• UNCTAD says Iran is the Middle East's major shipbuilder
• Scientists in Nelson are believed to have achieved a world first by freezing Pacific oyster eggs
• Hurricane damage to offshore oil and gas platforms has tripled the requests to convert rigs into artificial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico
• Fishing industry fears the planned Pebble Mine in Alaska could hurt salmon
• US government releases plan to recover Atlantic salmon
• Permafrost could be melting, study finds
• Fishermen say that report on mercury harms the industry
• Tokyo will survey the Okinotorishima Islands to boost Japan's claim to them, China disputes Japan's claim
• Greenpeace campaigners continue their confrontation with Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean
• Foreign ship crews will face tougher visa checks in Australia
• Fish head with two mouths will go to Harvard to be studied
• Fish stocks in the Indian Ocean, already depleted before last year's tsunami, could be further harmed by overfishing in the region
• Barge that capsized and leaked oil into the Gulf of Mexico last month has been raised to the surface
• Nova Scotia's fish packers say they could lose millions because of US border delays
• Activists confront Japanese whalers
• Japan calls China's growing military a threat
• South Korea's STX Shipbuilding Co. receives order to build three petrochemical carriers for Italy's Petro Barbaro Shipping SPA
• 7 South Korean shipbuilders are among the top 10 in terms of the backlog of orders received this year
• German steel firm ThyssenKrupp and Airbus parent firm EADS set to buy maritime electronics company Atlas Elektronik
• Russia successfully launches Bulava strategic ballistic missile from the submerged submarine Dmitry Donskoy
• Renewed calls to increase shipping safety controls after an oil tanker gets grounded off Skye
• Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have jointly drawn up detailed electronic sea charts of the Malacca Strait and Singapore Strait
• South Korea's POSCO will cut prices on steel products by up to 17%
• South Korea, others are building bigger freighters, and more of them
• Dutch college to be set up in Kwangyang, South Cholla Province by 2008 in an effort to nurture logistics experts
• Performing seal at a Beijing restaurant is in poor condition after swallowing a cigarette lighter thrown by a customer
• Unlike the EU, Russia says Norwegian salmon is safe to eat
• Double-mouthed rainbow trout caught in a Nebraska lake
• US EPA says 1/3 of oil spilled along Rahway River has been recovered
• Rising energy prices make drilling for oil off of California's coast a possibility again
• The Goliat field find off north Norway could contain 100 million barrels of oil, but environmentalists say drilling would threaten the Arctic ecology
• Exploring technologies that will help clean up pollution from ships
• Taiwan's ruling party finally manages to get US arms package onto parliament's agenda
• Putin signs submarine dismantling bill
• Washington Governor Christine Gregoire has ambitious plan to clean Puget Sound
• Patriot Mechanical Handling Inc. has received an order from Dalian New Shipbuilding, based in Dalian, China
• Task force will probe Taiwan Navy's plan to buy 'Kuang-hua Six' fast attack missile boats
• Program to restore the Russian River with endangered salmon shows promising results
• British swimmer Lewis Pugh breaks world records with an Antarctic swim - most southerly, and longest polar swim at 18 mintues 10 seconds
• Røkke's bribery conviction stands, but court will evaluate his pending jail term
• India, Pakistan to discuss Sir Creek on Tuesday
• PTC announces availability of CADDS 5i R14, new capabilities simplify development for shipbuilding and large assembly manufacturers
• German engineering group MAN decides to drop steel trading business
• Kenya Ports Authority will lay off 2,132 workers through voluntary early retirement
• Number of abalone poachers arrested on eastern Cape Town rose from 129 in 2003 to 168 in 2004
• Australia, Indonesia to probe illegal fishing in Australia's northern waters, they fear organized crime
• Healthy mangrove forests helped save lives in coastal settlements during the tsunami disaster
• Somali pirates fight over ransom money
• North Korean oil tanker allowed to take shelter at South Korea's Cheju Island during storm
• WWF warns that some of Europe's more exotic deep-sea fish species are being wiped out by overfishing
• Burntisland Fabrications in Fife, Scotland will build two giant offshore wind turbines for use in the Moray Firth
• New Hampshire lobster industry backs lower pot limits for newcomers
• Japan undermines the new Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commision's initiative to protect endangered sea turtles
• Signs of devastation linger in tsunami zone, but human impact may prove more harmful
• US Senate continues debate on the size of the nation's fleet and shipbuilding budgets
• US Navy to brief North Carolina lawmakers on proposed sonar training range off the coast
• The Burnham Shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts is building a schooner, you can watch on their webcam
• FastCats could compete with B.C. Ferries
• Iran's fishermen struggle under caviar boycott
• Invasive snakehead 'Frankenfish' shows up in the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers
• Singapore companies Keppel Corporation and SembCorp Marine have more than 80% of the world's jack-up rig orders
• Malaysia says joint patrols with neighboring Indonesia against piracy in the busy Malacca Strait has cut down on pirate attacks
• ABS wins class contract for the Agbami FPSO by South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
• US Senate panel exempts New England fishermen from new rule that sets strict limits on fish catch
• Healthy corals fared the best against the tsunami
• Russian city braces for China's benzene spill
• Scientists have captured the first images of a mother squid caring for its young, carrying eggs in a giant sac
• US Coast Guard temporarily relieves captain of the new icebreaker Mackinaw after an accident
• UK's Swan Hunter shipyard at risk after losing out on aircraft carrier contracts
• US Navy's newest ship USS San Antonio, late and over budget, gets failing grade
• National Labour Federation Pakistan rejects the privatization of the Karachi Shipyard
• Campaign to save Scotland's threatened native oysters has been launched
• Sturgeon threatened by illegal caviar trade
• Horizon Lines LLC want to increase fuel surcharge for Hawaii and Guam trades
• Oregon town doesn't want a ship scrapping yard to move in
• Deal reached in Irish Ferries dispute
• Robotic patrol boats could safeguard the seas from piracy and fight ocean-going people traffickers
• China not a military force to be reckoned with, yet
• Shipping groups may lose their exemption from EU cartel rules under a proposal tabled by the European Commission on Wednesday
• Carnival Corporation announces 4 ship deal with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri worth more than $2 billion
• Scientists lose sight of the right whale tangled in fishing lines, only some of the lines were removed
• US lawsuit challenges Endangered Species Act listing for salmon in four Western states
• Environmental impact of nitrobenzene pollution on China's Songhua River is being evaluated
• Two crew members have died and the skipper is feared trapped after a Belgian fishing vessel capsized 11 miles off Beachy Head, East Sussex
• General Dynamics Corp. agrees to buy Anteon International Corp. for $2.1 billion
• Greenpeace calls for France to keep the aircraft carrier Clemenceau out of Indian scrapyards
• Mombasa wants armed UN patrols to protect ships in Somali waters
• India, ASEAN agree to collaborate to strengthen maritime security in the Malacca Straits
• German steel company ThyssenKrup, Airbus parent firm EADS, near a deal to buy German maritime electronics company Atlas Elektronik
• Canada harnesses power of tides in the Bay of Fundy
• Noble Corporation to purchase shares of Smedvig ASA
• Florida business lobby endorses a plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
• Nigeria records a 240% decrease in oil spill incidents within the last 5 years
• Protection of Puget Sound's orcas under the Endangered Species Act may lead to better safeguards against oil spills
• At least 9 whales, 24 dolphins die on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, experts think snowstorms are to blame
• Link between temperatures in the North Atlantic and the strength of ocean circulation is underlined by analysis of sea-floor sediments
• Arctic orcas have ingested a dangerously high concentration of hazardous man-made chemicals
• Farmed salmon sales are booming in British Columbia
• Scientists say closing fishing on the Great Barrier Reef to allow spawning has been successful
• Saving abalone, the world's rarest shellfish
• US Congressional committee turns its attention to cruise ship disappearances and crimes
• Tasmanian scallop fisherman spend money to meet new European export standards
• Commercial Dungeness crab season won't start in Washington, Oregon, California until last day of 2005
• California oil producers urge greater exploitation of state's resources
• UK says sensitive defense work will remain reserved for UK companies
• Prehistoric boat- building site discovered near Fort Drum, New York
• Ship chandlers are losing business as vessels use smaller crews
• New England commercial fishermen face changes as Congress drafts new rules
• East Timor praises the deal reached last month with Australia to settle a maritime border dispute over oil and gas deposits
• Indian Coast Guard holds six Pakistani fishermen and their boat
• New Zealand creates 3 new marine reserves off the coasts of Whangarei, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki
• Oil spill on Statoil- operated Norne field in the Norwegian Sea on November 23rd was larger than first assumed
• Climatologist rejects the suggestion that global warming has already made people leave flooding islands
• UK Hydrographic Office has acquired leading German navigational software supplier SevenCs
• World growth in shipping traffic may lead to new kinds of ships
• South Korea and China have agreed on a maritime boundary delimitation in the West Sea (subscription required)
• India will lease two Shchuka-B (Akula) class nuclear submarines from Russia
• Tensions between China and Japan over the East China Sea could turn into a real conflict
• Scientists race to help an endangered right whale caught up in fishing gear off Florida
• Train derails in British Columbia, sending automobiles into the Fraser River, containment booms have been installed
• Joint Tactical Radio System program (JTRS), designed to link US Army, Navy and Air Force communications, will be scaled back
• Echizen kurage, or Nomura's jellyfish, are devastating the livelihoods of fishermen in the Sea of Japan
• Australia fears its fisheries will be hard hit by rising sea temperatures
• Foreign trawlers and local fishermen are devastating fish stocks off Senegal
• Philippe Vauthier uses an underwater turbine attached to a cable to harness the energy from ocean tides
• Russia bans Norwegian salmon imports after finding high levels of lead and cadmium
• 12 South Korean sailors rescued in east China's Bohai sea after a storm
• Three ship breaking workers killed in gas cylinder blast in Chittagong
• Australia to boost its coastal defenses
• Canada's Paul Martin proposes to study the impact of global warming on climate and fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Oil company BP fined for a diesel spill from a supply vessel in the North Sea last July
• Melting Arctic ice means Canada will face sovereignty issues in the Northwest passage, more chance for oil spills, etc.
• A tanker sailing under the Georgian flag sank Saturday off the coast of Italy
• The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington will be based in Japan's Yokosuka naval base in 2008
• Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the Titanic, wants the ship to be an undersea museum
• New Zealand researchers successfully breed Silver Carp in captivity
• Graham Hawkes is designing a new manned submersible, Deep Flight, that looks like a plane
• A marine research vessel will be built by the Aberdeenshire Macduff shipyard, making jobs there safe
• It may be possible for 'normal' ships to sail the Northwest passage within 30 years
• Ride on the solar-electric pontoon boat The Loon
• 13 crew members of a South Korean fishing vessel are missing after the boat collided with a Malaysian freighter
• New South African research confirms the slaughter of albatrosses by longline fishing gear
• Ten North Yorkshire trawler captains are fined for breaching fishing regulations and putting stocks at risk
• Shell's Sakhalin oil project should be reined in - opinion
• A million baby oysters transplanted to Rhode Island to try to replenish stock killed by a 1996 oil spill
November 2005
• BP angers greens with political pressure to sail more oil tankers in Puget Sound
• Orchard Petroleum signs oil exploration deal in California with Aera Energy
• Danish shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Norden A/S orders three ships from Chinese shipyards
• Russian workers have begun decommissioning the Volgograd nuclear submarine, funded by Canada
• Atlantic Ocean currents that keep Northern Europe warm have weakened by about a third over the last 50 years
• Marine life in the Pearl River contain excessive trace metals that may cause cancer
• Project SeaHawk, a pilot port security effort helping to protect Charleston, South Carolina from terrorist threats, is based on cooperation
• New study says that US commercial fisheries catch one pound of 'bycatch' for every four pounds intentionally caught
• The Ferguson shipyard in Inverclyde wins a £6 million ferry order, closure no longer a threat
• Scientists disappointed that Canada hasn't placed northern cod on its endangered species list
• Japan's annual slaughter of dolphins in a 'drive fishery' triggers demonstrations and outrage around the world
• The Asian Topmouth Gudgeon is threatening native fish species in the UK
• WWF launches 2006 competition for 'Smart Gear' - fishing gear that lowers accidental bycatch rates
• State-backed Dubai Ports World has agreed to buy UK ports and ferries group P&O for £3.3 billion
• FBI official set to testify in a case of alleged Chinese agents stealing sensitive data from the US Navy
• Northrop Grumman Newport News wins contract to refuel and overhaul the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
• St. Petersburg-based Admiralty Shipyard has begun sea trials of a fourth-generation Project 677 Lada class diesel-electric submarine
• Cod will not be placed on Canada's endangered list
• Oil discharge near Norne field under study, the oil is dissolving and poses little envinronmental threat
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez signed a $1.56 billion deal on Monday to buy naval ships and transport aircraft from Spain
• Norway demands nearly $2 million (US) from Spanish trawler for illegal fishing
• Australian fishermen will tag sharks to determine impact of fishing on their numbers
• Aker Philadelphia Shipyard begins production on the second of ten vessels in the product tanker build program announced last spring
• Indonesian fish poachers could turn Australia's Rowley Shoals Marine Park into a marine desert
• NASSCO delivers the double-hull oil tanker Alaskan Navigator to BP Oil Shipping Company, an environmentally friendly ship
• High prices for their catch means sturgeon poachers have little to fear
• Pittsburgh's Voyager nonprofit environmental education organization will soon get a hybrid boat
• Central California's crab fishermen go back to sea after price dispute with seafood processors is resolved
• Taiwanese fishermen bristle under the low quotas dictated by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna
• New England to ban cod fishing during the upcoming cod spawning season
• UN calls for fisheries closures to protect sea turtles
• Canadian Coast Guard says it made a mistake last September when four men drowned while waiting to be rescued off the coast of Newfoundland
• IMO Assembly elects new council for 2006-2007 biennium
• Dubai Ports World is on course to take over the ports and ferries group P&O
• Yellowstone cutthroat trout population is down in the oldest national park in the US
• Scientists monitoring earth movements in Antarctica believe they have found a singing iceberg
• China agrees to install detectors at its ports in an attempt to thwart the smuggling of nuclear materials
• Malta Shipyard's workforce may be reduced
• Venezuela wants to buy 12 military planes, 8 ships from Spain, US wants to block the deal
• The container market is growing nearly three times as fast as the world economy
• Commercial fishermen complain that Canadian Fisheries Minister cancelled yet another meeting to address salmon industry
• Crew of foreign livestock ship impounded at Adelaide's outer harbor has won an eight-month battle for unpaid wages
• Military spending cuts by US may not be as deep as forecast, but there isn't enough money to do everything
• Rising water threatens Arctic Circle villages, cultures
• First Iranian-made oceangoing vessel to be launched soon, being built at Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries Complex (ISOICO) yard
• Tasmania's fishing industry may accept Federal Government's rescue package to leave the industry and alleviate over-fishing
• Bumble Bee Foods LLC may close the last plant that cans shrimp caught in US waters, because of hurricane damage
• Norway's fishermen are exceeding their own quotas, but say two Spanish trawlers did more damage
• Cockle beds in Morecambe Bay, closed to protect stocks, could be reopened
• Too many boat donations after last year's tsunami could lead to over fishing in the Indonesian province of Aceh
• Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises are honored by the Ports of Stockholm for their use of low sulfur fuel in liners
• Dire piracy warnings for Somali coast
• Missing Japanese midget submarine used in the attack on Sydney Harbour during World War II may be found
• Salisbury Island in South Africa's Durban harbor will remain a navy base
• Manitowoc awarded double-hull, hot oil tank barge contract
• BC's new ferry to arrive in pieces from Arizona
• Environmentalists suing the US say it is failing to protect the right whale from extinction
• European Parliament's transport committee narrowly rejects controversial plans to liberalize Europe's ports
• Samsung Heavy may surpass Daewoo Shipbuilding in orders for 2005
• EC likely to target the maritime industry to be brought within the remit of the EU's emissions trading scheme
• New Norwegian kayak 'Flyak' is attracting interest in the world of water sports
• Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that trade with Japan will be on hold until they resolve a World War II islands dispute
• South Korean shipbuilders are profiting this year by selling high-value units like offshore plants and LNG carriers
• India will transfer one of its naval patrol vessels to the Maldives early next year
• Lockheed Martin team completes major construction milestone for first US Littoral Combat Ship
• Aker Yards to build a passenger ferry for Viking Line of Finland
• South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries to build three new supertankers for Russia's Sovcomflot
• Rolf Williams built in Mobile, Ala., at C&G Boat Works, first double-hull tanker of its size built in the US
• US Interior Secretary Gale Norton frustrated by public aversion to oil and gas drilling in sensitive areas
• Public hearing launched to examine proposals to transfer large quantities of oil between ships in the Firth of Forth
• Oman second Middle Eastern country to sign up to the US Container Security Initiative
• Ancient live oak trees uprooted by hurricanes will be used to rebuild the wooden whaling ship Charles W. Morgan
• Germany will sell Israel two more Dolphin class submarines at a major discount
• Britain may farm sea urchins
• Case filed by Irish fishing vessels to recover funds spent to meet EU regulations goes before the Court on Wednesday
• Governor of Russia's Far East maritime territory proposes banning crab fishing for five years to preserve stocks
• Environmental group Greenpeace will launch its most ambitious ship expedition to protest Japanese whaling
• Fight with processor Pacific Seafood over prices is keeping fishermen from the Central California crab fishery at home
• Puget Sound-area orca protection plan may not require many changes
• 50th Anniversary of containerized shipping, began in Canada
• USS Samuel B. Roberts rescues 7 sailors from the Dona Malula adrift in the Caribbean
• Program planned to develop China's port city of Xiamen into a shipbuilding base by 2015
• Global warming will reduce available fresh water in several areas worldwide
• Italian company Fincantieri forms new company in US: Fincantieri Marine Systems North America, Inc.; absorbs FDGM, Inc.
• EU proposes to maintain producer price for tuna
• Satellite surveillance zone in the southern Indian Ocean helps protect endangered Patagonian toothfish from pirate fishing vessels
• New US federal fishing bill would update rules
• Virginia lawmakers try to pass funding to keep Newport News shipyard from laying off workers
• South Korea plans to halve sewage discharged to sea
• Szczecinska Nowa shipyard (SSN) will present a report concerning the conclusion of its three-year restructuring program
• Plan underway to carry freight containers though California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by ship rather than trucking on local roads
• Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. announces fleet update
• High-seas pirate attacks are on the rise
• Smit International sells a 30% stake in its South African operation, Smit Amandla Marine, to a black-owned company and employees' trust
• Crew of Maltese-registered San Carlo are reported well after contact was made with their Somali hijackers, negotiations continue
• Japan's port of Sasebo holds a drill based on a scenario involving a radioactive leak on a US submarine, US Navy declines to participate
• India to develop nuclear submarines with Russian aid
• Nuclear submarine USS Philadelphia returns home after September collision with a Turkish cargo ship, it still needs minor repairs
• The Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (VENUS) is launched in British Columbia
• Three Chinese immigrants indicted for allegedly stealing information about US Navy warships
• Shipbuilder VT offers prospect of double-digit earnings growth
• South Korean shipbuilders' profitability improved this year
• Emergency response and rescue sector invests in the North Sea
• US Senate approves defense spending bill, includes funds for shipbuilding and refueling the Carl Vinson
• Sturgeon may become extinct within next 15 years
• South Africa's rock lobster population is nursed back to health
• East Timor fisheries minister says foreign boats are plundering its fish stocks
• Canada, US formalize joint plan to respond to pollution incidents along their inland shared border
• Seven sailors from US aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower are arrested by the FBI on charges they set up sham marriages to illegal immigrants
• Britain's growing weight problem has spurred the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to call for stability checks on ferries
• Port of New Orleans now operating at 35% of its former capacity, expected to be close to full recovery by March of next year
• Scotland's workplace smoking ban will not apply to submarines at sea or Navy refueling vessels
• Russia, US to discuss nuclear submarine disposal in Severodvinsk, and Britain to concentrate aid on Northern Fleet nuclear waste site
• HMCS Onondaga to be the first Canadian submarine to be preserved as a museum
• Gujarat Maritime Board may set up a maritime institute
• Northrop Grumman Corp. is upbeat about the future of mini- submarine program despite an attack from a House of Representatives lawmaker
• US government agrees to list Puget Sound orcas as an endangered species
• Norway receives bids from 24 companies for 19th licensing round
• Central California's Dungeness crab season opens, but the harvest could be delayed while fishermen and processors debate prices
• WWF believes Japan has imported thousands of tons of bluefin tuna caught illegally by Turkey
• Damaged barge has capsized in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, it carried about 5 million gallons of number-six fuel oil
• Oil workers were airlifted from a pipelaying barge that broke loose from its tow lines amid rough waters in the North Sea
• Asian shipping lines expect freight rates to fall next year as a record number of new ships are delivered
• African businesses are hit hard as tourists are scared off by pirates
• Japan will pay to dismantle five abandoned Russian nuclear submarines that could leak radiation
• South Korean shipbuilders' demand for steel plates is expected to grow next year
• French engineering group Alstom wins contract to build two cruise liners for Italian line MSC
• Quintana Maritime Limited takes delivery of its second capesize bulk carrier
• The large number of illegal vessels caught fishing along the West Australian coastline prompt demands for coast guard protection
• Keppel Singmarine Pte, Ltd. will build six new anchor handling, tug supply (AHTS) vessels in Southeast Asia for GulfMark Offshore
• Russia's state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot places order with South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries for 3 icebreaking oil tankers
• Russian government is closer to approving the Far East pipeline, but environmentalists insist the route is too close to Lake Baikal
• Hong Kong is slowly waking up to the realities of the shark fin trade, which is threatening several species with extinction
• Call for an environmental impact study before oil drilling starts off Kenya's Lamu Island
• Iran says the US ban on caviar is raising prices and prompting illegal fishing
• Sinking of Australia's HMAS Sydney is remembered
• Test case to appear in the UK Court of Appeal arguing that pleural plaques, caused by exposure to asbestos, should not be compensated
• North Korean navy vessel and nine fishing boats briefly crossed the disputed Yellow Sea border with South Korea on Sunday before heading back
• Ian Harvey is the first person to row 400 miles single-handed across Lake Superior, the world's largest fresh water lake
• US Senate confirms Donald Winter as Navy secretary, but he can't take charge until the current secretary's stalled promotion is cleared
• Tampa Bay Shipbuilding and Repair is trying to recruit workers from Virgina to work on a new barge contract
• Study will try to find out why some of Tasmania's abalone beds recover more quickly from fishing than others
• A jellyfish accidentally imported to the Caspian Sea from the US threatens fish stocks and the region's famous export, caviar
• A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S ship Maersk Holyhead now berthed at the port of El Tablazo, oil leak stopped
• Giant ancient sea creature discovered
• The bulk carrier Edmund Fitzgerald sank 30 years ago on Lake Superior
• South Korea, China to open sea routes to each other's container ships
• Watchdog sounds SOS for seas
• Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard says the US Navy is interested in trying to keep the yard's work force stable
• Iran's caviar exports at all-time low, the Caspian Sea is facing a crisis of reduced seafood reserves
• India to use computer simulations to estimate impact of possible tsunamis, to create a national tsunami survival plan
• Huge Echizen jellyfish torment fishermen off Japan's coast
• Bath Iron Works awarded contract for lead yard services on the DDG 51 Class AEGIS Destroyer Program
• Hurricane damage to shipyards top $1 billion, Northrop Grumman official says
• Nigeria orders polluting vessels to be arrested
• Chinese cargo ship capsizes, killing four
• Sale of submarines to Taiwan stirs controversy in US
• DNV will lead study to gain a better understanding on how pipeline materials perform under different installation and service conditions
• South Korea's shipping industry prepares to cope with a possible market decline next year
• Dubai Drydocks says shipyards need stronger safety controls
• Jonathan Watts of The Guardian on China's economy
• US government is no longer considering whether it should declare Eastern oysters endangered
• US House likely to vote to approve offshore drilling
• Indian Coast Guard shows ways to tackle low-intensity threats like marine pollution, drug running and illegal immigration
• Environmentalists criticize route of planned Siberia-Pacific pipeline in new report
• US military base closures becomes law
• Sonic blasts used against pirates
• Judge denies bail for two Chinese nationals accused of conspiring to steal sensitive documents on US Navy warship technology
• Norway will not cut Russian quotas on cod fishing following the recent incidents in the Barents Sea
• Inmarsat 4-F2 communications satellite lifted off from a floating platform in the equatorial Pacific Ocean atop a commercial Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket
• L-3 Communications awarded US Coast Guard training support contract
• Adesta LLC selected by Maryland Port Administration to secure the Port of Baltimore
• Despite the damage caused by recent hurricanes, oil companies continue to work on fields in the Gulf of Mexico
• Three racing yachts capsize in ferocious Atlantic storm during the Transat Jacques Vabre race
• Greenpeace says ExxonMobile Corp. should fulfill its obligation to compensate Alaska fishermen for the Exxon Valdez oil spill
• Fishermen acquitted of poaching Patagonian toothfish have filed a lawsuit that could exceed $30 million
• A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S ship Maersk Holyhead is leaking oil after colliding with Liberian vessel Pequot near Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo
• The US Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) was breached, but no critical information was jeopardized
• Ocean launch for UK-built satellite delayed
• International team of researchers will help establish protocols for making decisions about shoreline development and building codes
• Although India's shipping industry is lagging 10-15 years behind China's, it has the potential to perform better
• China showcases nautical hero Zheng He's shipyard in Nanjing
• International group of marine scientists to conduct a survey of fishery biodiversity in the Philippines
• Boycott against Canada's seafood industry is growing - started to encourage the country to stop its commercial seal hunt
• Environmental watch dog says New Zealand is falling behind on its management of oceans
• California ponders building LNG terminals, either in the ocean off Oxnard or in Long Beach Harbor
• Another six foreign fishing boats have been detained off Australia's northern coast for alleged illegal fishing
• James Auer on Taiwan's opportunities in the face of China's power
• Norwegian ship Stilmoy struck and sank a Scottish trawler Harvest in the North Sea, no one was injured
• Dutch cargo ship Stella Rigel which broke down off the coast of Pembrokeshire has been safely towed in to Swansea docks
• Israeli authorities to probe fatal collision between a Japanese fishing boat and an Israeli containership
• New technology will be used to carry out a comprehensive survey of fish and lake bed in the Upper Lough Erne; also looking for monsters
• World's most expensive cruises, 2005
• Competition Tribunal conditionally approves merger of international shipping giants AP Moller-Maersk and P&O Nedlloyd
• Funds New Hampshire received to help workers that might be laid off from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard won't be returned even though the yard won't close
• New rules for longline fishing in the Hawaiian islands are saving the lives of sea birds; some albatross numbers are still declining
• Net left behind by recreational fishers on holiday in New Zealand kills four endangered Hector's Dolphins
• First offshore wind farm proposed for the US is delayed for at least a year for another environmental review
• US Army dumped surplus chemical weapons from World War II off foreign and American shores
• Ship hijackings off Somali coast worry United Nations World Food Programme, food deliveries hampered
• Scientists warn that Kenya must meet international environmental standards as it starts to drill for offshore oil
• Canadian naval hero Desmond Piers dies
• South African Navy takes delivery of the first of its three new German- built diesel- electric submarines
• Russian military to get new submarines, missiles by 2008
• Members of a US House subcommittee want the Bush administration to ban imports of Asian carp, it threatens the Great Lakes' ecosystems
• US Senate opponents to drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge failed to strip the measure from budget package
• Container shipping glut threatens freight rates
• Seaweed beds are disappearing off Hokkaido, but scientists are fighting back successfully
• Iridium, Impeva Labs contract with Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for Operation Safe Commerce Testing Phase III
• 153-year-old Cape St. George lighthouse toppled into the Gulf of Mexico on Oct. 21; preservationists hope to rebuild
• Australia considers trade sanctions against nations that allow illegal fishing under their flags
• ABS, Russian Maritime Register of Shipping extend their agreement on cooperation
• 'Sea squirts' from Asia are likely to push up the price of mussels and oysters
• Japan's new trade minister calls for flexibility in settling a gas field row with China in the East China Sea
• Hawaii Superferry secures funding, should begin inter- island service to Kaua'i in 2007
• Greenpeace to pay fine for damaging coral reef at a world heritage site in the southern Philippines
• Greenpeace has lost another attempt to reverse a government ban on 'pair trawling' off Devon and Cornwall
• Didymo, or rock snot, is spreading in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada, threatening ecosystems, and New Zealand's national didymo survey finds eight rivers affected by the invasive algae, river users cautioned to clean items that contact water
• Clean-up operations under way in South Africa's main port of Durban after 80 tons of bunker fuel spilled into the harbor
• ABS selected by Australia's Woodside Energy Ltd for asset base classification and verification services
• Royal Navy stop a gang of cocaine traffickers in the Caribbean
October 2005
• Port of Los Angeles shares air quality technology with China, its top trading partner
• Japan's retired Rear Admiral Sumihiko Kawamura speaks to the Taipei Times on the Chinese navy's abilities, especially its submarine fleet
• Two Kidd-class destroyers purchased from the US leave South Carolina, are expected to arrive in Taiwan in December
• Arctic lakes show 'alarming' spike in plant activity
• Shares in ports and ferry operator P&O have surged amid speculation the group may become the target of a bidding war
• Nippon Steel says quarterly profit surged 80%
• Aker Kvaerner ASA wins deepwater drilling system order from Jurong Shipyard
• California's vast delta nearing collapse, fish species still crashing
• Australia's Northern Territory Seafood Industry Council wants country of origin labeling for seafood on restaurant menus
• Japan's tengusa seaweed is disappearing from sea beds, no one knows why
• More than a thousand birds covered in oil after spill off Denmark's East Coast, source unknown
• The Karachi coastline faces severe pollution from industrial, port, municipal, and transportation activities in the area
• China may grant loan for floating nuclear power unit in Russian north
• North Carolina herring fishery in bad shape, marine biologists call for a moratorium on catches
• Post-hurricane White House plan would add funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• South Carolina state Supreme Court to hear Friends of the Hunley foundation records case
• US widens import prohibition on beluga caviar to include that from the Black Sea basin
• US Navy for the first time will base a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan starting in 2008
• Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., president Yu Kwang-hon has offered to resign (subscription required)
• Chemist tests new ways to filter contaminated water 10/28
• Norway says that Russian ships account for the least number of violations in Norwegian territorial waters
• European Union approve funds to help Nigeria and Cameroon demarcate their borders properly
• Norway, Russia to cooperate in controlling fishing in the Barents Sea by setting up joint patrols with their coast guards
• Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. signs contract with PetroRig I/PetroMena ASA to build a semisubmersible rig
• Boeing to apply network-centric operations to coastal resource management
• Marathon talks bring increased fuel compensation for Spanish fishermen
• Los Angeles County beaches were California's most unhealthful this summer
• House Committee on Resources votes to open the ANWR to oil companies, relax ban on new oil and gas drilling of the US coast
• Diesel powered boats now banned from China's Huangpu River
• The Competition Commission has opened the way for Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk to acquire Dutch rival P&O Nedlloyd
• Russian fishermen accused of illegally catching 40,000 tons of cod off Norway every year
• Spanish ports blockaded as fishermen protest price of fuel
• Construction on the Poseidon project, a luxury resort beneath the sea, could start in February
• Europe sees rising economic tide in sales of big yachts
• New Zealand fish farmers working on ways to eradicate the sea squirt styela clava
• Plan to close and reconfigure US military bases seems certain to take effect
• Three-day ASEAN Regional Forum workshop on training for Cooperative Maritime Security begins Oct. 26
• Retirements, injuries, more ships calling on Washington ports has led to a shortage of pilots to guide ships through Puget Sound
• Most Britons would reject the new Trident program if they knew the costs involved
• Russian Embassy confirms detention of two Russian boats in Norwegian waters
• Many scientists say the momentum behind human-caused global warming has put the melting Arctic past the point of no return
• Taiwan navy pilot says the country's anti-submarine capability is low, and needs advanced aircraft
• Four plead guilty in US Navy shipyard bribery scandal
• While New Orleans' levee system will be repaired, a new system of floodgates and levees must also be built
• Fishing threatens Hawaiian species
• First of 10 new tankers being built at Aker Philadelphia Shipyard is marked by keel laying, ancient coin ceremony on Oct. 28
• US Coast Guard reports a functional timing problem with Saab R3 and R4 Class A mobile AIS equipment - PDF file
• Norwegian Coast Guard detains two more Russian fishing vessels, saying they violated Norway's fishing laws
• Caterpillar retrofits land-based equipment at Port of Cleveland to cut down on emissions
• Indian shippers told to brace for surging LNG demand
• Captain of the Zim Asia detained over fatal collision with a Japanese fishing boat
• Offshore Systems International Ltd. wins additional contracts with the Portuguese Navy
• Fishermen and bottom trawlers are damaging cultural treasures hidden beneath the South China Sea
• Australia wins the World Wildlife Fund's top accolade for its efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef
• South Australian tuna magnate Dinko Lukin is on trial for allegedly spilling 2,000 liters of oil into Boston Bay
• Teams fail to recreate Archimedes' fabled death ray
• Worker loses his hand in an accident on BP's North Everest oil and gas rig, east of Aberdeen
• Surfer survives a Great White shark attack at the popular Uilenkraalsmond holiday resort near Gansbaai
• Current winner in California's water wars is agriculture, not fish
• Creation of 'Ocean Yellowstone' off Hawaii urged
• Prosecutors to visit Elektron trawler captain in hospital
• Indonesia raps Australia over illegal fishing clampdown
• Illegal Indonesian fishermen are bringing animals, and possibly disease, into Australian waters
• Erin Brockovich to take on oil spills in Newton Creek, Brooklyn
• Teams seek to recreate Archimedes' feat to torch a fleet of invading ships using a mirror to reflect the sun's rays
• DNV will develop new specifications for remotely operated subsea pipeline repair in cooperation with an industry consortium
• Malta-registered vessel San Carlo reportedly attacked by pirates off Somalia on Wednesday
• Invasive zebra mussels discovered in the upper Mississippi River
• Bush Administration proposes to relax Toxic Release Inventory requirements for shipyards, other businesses; there are many critics
• Government's shares in the national shipping line, Sea Malta, are transferred to Atlantica di Navigazione SpA
• Japan in a corner over interdictions at sea - Mark J. Valencia
• Scotland studies ways to trace where fish is caught, while Scientists warn New England restaurants to stop serving the troubled cod
• The Henry B. DuPont Preservation Shipyard at the Mystic Seaport Museum will use live oaks damaged by hurricanes to restore historic ships
• 40% cut in North Sea haddock is urged
• Six injured in St. Petersburg ship fire, the fire is out and no oil has been spilled
• Alaska considers opening up Bristol Bay to oil and gas drilling, currently under a presidential moratorium
• US EPA announces the Mississippi Delta is once again a safe place to swim - no announcements on shellfish consumption
• Lloyd's Register is authorized by the US Coast Guard to extend its Alternate Compliance Program capabilities to include mobile offshore drilling units
• United States and Canada are partnering in the container security initiative
• The polar thaw means more potential for Arctic navigation, and American foreign policy in the Arctic must catch up - Scott Borgerson
• Freed by global warming, waters once locked beneath ice are encroaching coastal settlements around the Arctic Circle
• Britain marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar
• France and Germany duel in bid to consolidate weapons industry
• African Union will present a common front at the next Committee of Maritime International (CMI) conference
• New Brunswick, Nova Scotia will participate in study on tidal power that could see underwater turbines installed in the Bay of Fundy
• Cargo scanners to be installed in the Port of Mombasa
• Quintana Maritime Limited takes delivery of its first Capesize bulk carrier
• Malta may require breathalyzer tests for people at the helm of boats
• India objects to Google's satellite image service, which shows sensitive military sites
• Ronald Sugar, chief executive of Northrop Grumman Corp., in an interview about Newport News shipyard
• More than 200 Indonesians are being held by Australia after a crackdown on illegal fishing
• Pressure is growing on Australia's fishing industry to halt the practice of deep-sea bottom trawling
• Indian Navy appears interested in having a 'blue water' status, and is setting up a Far Eastern Naval Command for the Andaman Sea
• Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a controversial shrine may have jeopardized talks with China on disputed East China Sea gas
• US Congressman James Oberstar believes the current Jones Act waiver may be unnecessary
• Planning is underway to create New Zealand's first marine national park off Northland's east coast
• Egypt investigates Al Salam 95 boat crash, two are dead, 100 wounded
• CapRock and SeaMobile form alliance to offer satellite-based wireless services to cruise lines and maritime community
• Russia's anti- submarine ship Admiral Levchenko is headed to the Barents Sea to provide surveillance of Russia's territorial waters
• Danish group calls for changes in deep sea fishery, urging sharp cuts in fishing quotas for some species
• Scotland's fishing fleet hears warnings that only a total ban on cod catches will save fragile stocks
• Small Pakistani fishermen call for a ban on huge foreign trawlers operating in waters off the country
• US Navy awards General Dynamics a contract to convert the USS Georgia from a Trident ballistic missile submarine to a SSGN
• Russia, Norway discussing fate of Russian fishing boat found in the fisheries protection zone of Spitsbergen
• Two owners of the UK's largest fishing vessel ordered to pay back almost £1m after pleading guilty to illegally landing fish
• Revised treaties to address unlawful acts at sea adopted at international Conference on the Revision of the SUA Treaties
• Robert Marquand on China's secretive military
• Two day strike ends at Chittagong seaport
• US Navy repeats warning about growing piracy in the northern Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa
• North Korean fishing boat violated the disputed western sea border with the South
• Illegal fishing undermines stock management in Australia's Northern Territory
• Echizen kurage - giant jellyfish - have returned to the Sea of Japan in large numbers this season
• Sunken tugboat near Port Gamble is leaking what appears to be diesel fuel into Puget Sound
• The number of Cubans trying to reach the US across the Florida Straits has reached its highest level in more than a decade
• China sees great leaps in maritime space tracking
• Beacon WiFi, others, are providing wireless internet access to marinas across the US
• Gulf fishermen battle over solutions to grouper overfishing
• Audit of travel at Canada's Fisheries Department shows misuse of funds
• South Carolina lawmaker wants to help ease fuel worries by seeing if a petroleum refinery could be built on the coast
• Pakistan arrests 59 Indians and seizes their boats after they were caught fishing illegally
• Weighing the pros and cons of giant cruise ships
• High speed boat chase and high tech equipment helps Canadian officers win a conviction against lobster poachers
• Federal Republic of Nigeria is the fifth country to ratify the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments
• US offshore producers attack 'gas only' leasing proposal
• Pirates in Somalia have freed UN-chartered ship MV Miltzow carrying food aid, two days after hijacking it from the southern port of Merka
• Norway, Russia to restart negotiations over the disputed Barents Sea area
• Malta's port workers staged a one-hour strike to protest an EU directive that would liberalize port services
• Worker falls at the Malta Shipyards while working on board the MV Zebbug, in critical condition
• Crisis at state-owned Corsican ferry firm SNCM is a symptom of all that is wrong with France's social and economic model: Jon Henley
• Transpetro to sign first shipbuilding contracts in January for 26 ships, the rest of the 42 will be announced later
• Russia to build floating, mobile nuclear power plants, may get some financing from China
• Northrop Grumman to provide temporary housing for more than 1,000 Gulf Coast employees
• Hawaii removes 125 tons of marine debris
• South Korea will introduce a barcode tracking system for fisheries products in response to discovery of toxic chemicals
• After losing a contract to a Polish shipyard, the Ferguson yard in Port Glasgow in Inverclyde wins a £500,000 order from Western Ferries
• Norway may permit oil drilling in the Arctic, but not off the scenic Lofoten islands and the Vesteraalen region
• ISO 10303 AP 227 Edition 2:2005 has just been approved for publication, see the US PRO on-line catalog
• Company strives to develop shark repellent
• Kenyan government probes whether members of the interim Somali government are behind the hijacking of the MV Torgelow
• US wants to push ocean boundaries to limit terror threat
• New Zealand tourist boat crash linked to the skipper who was busy giving passengers a running commentary
• Stations set up to implement the A-bomb test ban treaty could be involved in the new Indian Ocean tsunami warning system
• Offshore drilling contractor Transocean Inc. expects to repair two rigs damaged by Gulf hurricanes and return them to service in 2006
• Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom, tanker company Sovkomflot, and the Sevmorneftegaz oil and gas company reach agreement on oil transportation
• OAO Lukoil, ConocoPhillips to build 4 tankers at South Korean Samsung Group's shipyards to ship crude from Arctic fields
• Portugal, Canada sign fisheries memorandum, Portugal says it follows Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization rules
• EU wants to curb overfishing of octopus by enforcing a minimum size for creatures caught in eastern central Atlantic waters
• Agricultural Retailers Association joins coalition urging temporary waiver of Jones Act
• The anchor of King Henry VIII's flagship, the nearly 500-year-old Mary Rose, was raised from the sea Tuesday
• Queensland Fisheries Minister gets extra federal funding to fight illegal fishing in northern Australian waters
• Municipal sewage is the largest source of pollution discharged to surface water bodies in Canada
• The Solomon Islands is expected to take a neutral stance on the issue of whaling
• US ban on caviar from the sturgeon Huso Huso has no effect on Iran's exports
• Many criticize Florida's governor for backing a bill that would let oil interests explore closer to the coast
• Governments meet to consider amendments to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
• In a rare move of cooperation, North Korea lets a South Korean boat cross their maritime border on a rescue mission
• Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise runs into sand bar and sucks sand into its condensers, now in for repairs
• Drop in lobster catch prompts new studies
• Aquarium fish trade unregulated in Hawaii
• Underwater wreck could be 1st Canadian ship sunk by German U-boat
• Greenpeace loses its High Court attempt to overturn a government ban aimed at protecting dolphins
• Lockheed Martin tests first Aegis weapon system with SPY-1F radar at sea
• India focuses on cruise industry
• Northrop Grumman warns earnings will be lower than expected this year because of hurricane damage at its Gulf coast shipyards
• Drought threatens drinking water supply of more than 2 million people in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
• Shell looks to Alaska's Bristol Bay for new oil and gas development, the plan faces regulatory hurdles
• Demonstrator spacecraft launched from a Russian nuclear submarine gets lost after takeoff
• South Korea may buy fish free of malachite green in an effort to keep fish prices stable following the contamination scandal
• Search for invasive Asian carp in the Chicago River comes up empty
• Corsican separatists threaten buyers of ferry line
• US defense bill includes one Virginia Class nuclear submarine
• Russia's military conducted a successful ballistic missile test Saturday from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea
• Mumbai's Mazagon Dock Ltd. gets ready to build Scorpene submarines
• Japan will help Russia dismantle 5 decommissioned nuclear submarines
• Revised treaties to address unlawful acts at sea set to be adopted at Diplomatic Conference on the Revision of the SUA Treaties
• R & R Marine's three fabrication and dock yards in Port Arthur, Texas are running, only minor damage from hurricanes
• Investigators launching probe into Japanese fishing boat crash
• Managing director of a demolition firm has admitted health and safety offences which led to the death of a worker at Cammell Lairds shipyard
• India, France sign agreements to build six Scorpene submarines
• South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co. will set up a repair yard with Qingdao Shunhe Shipping Co. in China
• Work at the Port of New Orleans goes slowly, as the city is slow to get back on its feet
• Angola, Morocco sign fishing accord
• Lockheed Martin opens new facility to integrate and test LCS mission systems
• South African Navy chief wants women to be on equal footing
• Noble Corporation updates status of offshore units following Hurricane Rita, and forecasts estimated financial impact
• UN sea turtle recommendation under fire, as it won't do enough to prevent their extinction
• Traces of carcinogen malachite green discovered in freshwater fish from farms in South Korea
• US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has received more than 1,000 pollution reports along the Gulf Coast from hurricane damage
• Piscataqua River Cooperative holds annual fall drill at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to test oil spill preparedness
• French port strike threatens refineries
• Story that Navy-trained 'deadly' dolphins escaped during Hurricane Katrina surfaces again
• Officials urged to probe claims that organized crime is involved in Indonesian boats illegally fishing in Australian waters
• South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) annual meeting gets underway
• High operating costs in fisheries are putting Seychelles at a disadvantage against its East African neighbors
• Norway demands that Russia stops illegal fishing practices
• Florida Governor supports drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, including areas he wanted protected just four years ago
• Two offshore wind power projects get closer to starting up in the US
• Armed pirates hijacked an Indonesian-registered ship carrying a cargo of tin ingots, crew is safe
• Hurricane Stan hits Mexican Gulf coast, ports shut
• Justin McCurry on the maritime boundary dispute between Japan and China
• New Zealand's Environment Bay of Plenty may charge a type of 'rent' for the use of public space in the coastal marine area
• Sparrows Point Shipyard and Industrial Complex joins Maritime Exchange
• US Fish and Wildlife Service bans import of beluga sturgeon caviar and meat from Caspian Sea basin countries
• Fisheries negotiations begin Wednesday at the UN, a ban on bottom trawling will be discussed
• Ireland tags tope, learns fishy tales
• Plans to support orcas in the Puget Sound and around the San Juan Islands focus on food sources, noise control, pollution
• Hurricane damage means it probably will take months to return US offshore natural gas production to normal levels
• Sakhalin offshore oil and gas project in Russia faces funding decision, concerns over effect on the critically endangered western Pacific gray whale
• ShipConstructor to support STEP import and export
• Laws governing boating in New York and elsewhere are coming under close scrutiny after the capsizing of tour boat Ethan Allen
• Minimum manning requirements discussed at the International Shipping Federation conference
• Angola, Morocco exchange experience in fishing sector
• Many of the boats damaged by Hurricane Katrina will be sold auction-style over the internet
• Aker ASA orders offshore drilling rigs
• Piranha bites airport inspector in Manila
• McMoRan Exploration reports on damage from recent hurricanes
• Hurricanes slam the Gulf region's outdoor sporting industry
• Hoi Ha Wan, home to rare coral and a breeding ground for marine life, is being destroyed by tourists
• Citing hurricane damage to US fuel supplies, some in Congress seek to loosen bans on offshore drilling, waive air pollution rules
• Sea-ice cover over the polar ice cap has fallen for the past four years, many species are dying out from global climate change
• French ports remain blocked as angry workers oppose ferry privatization
• Israeli-registered container ship Zim Asia is suspected of colliding with the Shinsei Maru No. 3, killing 7 crew members
• Asian ship owners upbeat about the outlook for ocean freight rates
• Time running out as Taiwan wrings hands over US arms deal
• Fabien Cousteau is studying great white sharks in a great white shark- shaped submersible
• More Chinese White Dolphins die as more development projects reclaim land around North Lantau
• Organic shrimp project begins soon in Bangladesh
• Persistent red tide hits South Texas
• It could be months or years before Gulf fisheries see a full recovery from the hurricanes
• First samples of fish taken from the Gulf of Mexico since the hurricanes show no exposure to spilled oil
September 2005
• New Zealand's Department of Labour called on to address alleged ill treatment on board the Sky 75
• Largest-ever Korean-made ancient ship found with celadon pottery
• India is planning for a tourist submarine, being built in Finland
• Federal judge dismisses environmental lawsuit, Hawaii Superferry's inter-island ferry service can now get started
• Mississippi, other Gulf ports return to business - slowly
• Japan Coast Guard seeks help from South Korea, Russia, in tracking down a vessel that apparently collided with the fishing boat Shinsei Maru No. 3
• Wild salmon seems to have made a dramatic comeback to Scotland's rivers just 12 months after the fish was feared to be in jeopardy
• Environmental damage in Louisiana from recent hurricanes is unparalleled in its scope and variety
• Hawaii creates the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands State Marine Refuge
• The health of San Francisco Bay and the contiguous delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers is evaluated
• Troops storm ferry as anger grows over fate of Corsica shipping line
• First sailing regatta between the navies of India, Brazil and South Africa is under way in Simon's Town
• Suitors line up to buy Taiwan shipyard (subscription required)
• Jumbo places repeat order for two vessels with 1600t lift capacity, Damen Shipyards in Poland will deliver in 2007, 2008
• Cleaning up lost and abandoned nets, crab pots, and other fishing gear helps marine life
• This year's drought has left water levels low in Central Washington rivers, salmon eggs may not survive the winter
• Fishermen in the United Arab Emirates are being robbed by pirates
• Iran to continue aquaculture development policies
• Canada has met most of its fishery obligations with First Nations under the Marshall ruling, but not all
• Canada's environment commissioner has criticized Ottawa for doing a poor job of protecting the oceans, promoting biodiversity, ensuring safe drinking water
• Typhoon Damrey death toll mounts as flash floods sweep in
• Water quality conditions in New Orleans may still pose health risks
• Several Australian groups raise concerns over a Flag of Convenience ship carrying volatile ammonium nitrate on the Australian coast
• Somali piracy reaching alarming levels
• Port of Oakland gives cash to drivers of old rigs to replace vehicles with newer, more eco-friendly ones
• Port of New Orleans is operating at 20 percent capacity
• Ghana Maritime Authority to enforce control measures
• The US NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Service Center says cod stocks are seriously declining
• Russian navy successfully launches ICBM from the nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy
• Scientists take first photograph of a live giant squid, the tentacled deep-sea monster is the largest invertebrate on earth
• Despite EU obligations, Malta's Opposition leader still wants state subsidies for shipyards after 2008
• US attack submarine San Francisco arrives at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for permanent repairs, gets new commander
• Kazakhstan plans to double the volume of the Kazakh part of the divided Aral Sea
• West Australian Senator Eggleston calls for helicopter patrols to stop illegal fishing
• Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market threatened by globalization
• Korea, Japan to discuss cooperative measures for protecting fishery resources
• Murphy Oil Corp. pledges $5 million to help St. Bernard Parish recover from their refinery oil spill caused by Hurricane Katrina
• Warning put out to shipping along the Sunshine Coast when 800 hardwood logs were lost off the wrecked Kiperousa
• German Navy seeks submarine-launched missile
• India, France to sign agreement on the purchase of 6 Scorpene submarines in October
• Nabors Industries Ltd. announces preliminary assessment of damage from Hurricane Rita
• Drilling services contractor Noble Corp. reports on damage caused by Hurricane Rita, 4 rigs ripped from moorings
• EU tariffs hurt Canadian shrimp industry
• Losses in Louisiana seafood industry may be felt nationwide
• Moeller-Maersk AS to pay a $500,000 fine in a plea bargain with the US District Court over false entries in an Oil Record Book
• US Maritime Administration announces four new disposal contracts for obsolete ships in its National Defense Reserve Fleet
• Chinese maritime police capture a Vietnamese cargo vessel that sank a Chinese fishing boat and fled the scene
• All ships moored at the Maritime Administration Reserve Fleet Facility in Beaumont, Texas remained afloat after Hurricane Rita
• The search for the missing Durban yacht Moquini has been called off
• Russia to raise funds to decommission some 15 nuclear submarines in 2006
• German Navy pursues submarine- launched missile
• Kirby Corporation comments on the impact of Hurricane Rita on its operations
• Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc. plans new vessel construction program
• Christensen Shipyards Ltd. ordered to stop using Tiger Woods' name and photo of his yacht to promote the company
• North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission votes down herring ban
• Newfoundland appeals to federal government to fight EU shrimp tariff
• Abandoned deep-sea fishing nets are killing large numbers of fish and sharks in the northeast Atlantic
• China preparing for war, and few notice
• Malaysia, Singapore, Indones
