On March 26, Crowley Maritime Corporation christened the eighth of 10 new 185,000-barrel Articulated Tug-Barge (ATB) tank vessels that the company will take delivery of by 2011. The vessels christened ...

As the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Gas Hazards votes on the First Draft of the next edition of NFPA 306, Standard for the Control of Gas Hazards on Vessels, the ...

MANILA, Philippines - A vessel dredging the mouth of the Pasig River as part of the river rehabilitation program accidentally struck and recovered last Saturday a submerged World War II vintage battle ...

The safety record of lightering (the transfer of petroleum cargo at sea from a large tanker to smaller ones) has been excellent in U.S. waters in recent years, as evidenced by the very low rate of ...

A coordinated multi-agency response by the State DEC, U.S. Coast Guard, City of Buffalo, and the Buffalo Naval Park is ...

This chapter examines the economic viability of the domestic (Jones Act) petroleum transportation industry 1 in light of the double-hull requirements of Section 4115 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 ...