New state-of-the-art equipment to respond and clean up oil spills more quickly and effectively is being rolled out across nine Australian ports.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands Maritime Administrator releases the DEEPWATER HORIZON Marine Casualty Investigation Report.

The European Maritime Safety Agency signs a contract to provide pollution response capacity using the Limassol, Cyprus-based tanker Alexandria.

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) is participating in an oil pollution response exercise organised off the port of Varna by the Bulgarian Maritime Administration. Two EMSA-contracted oil spill recovery vessels are taking part: the GSP Orion and Santa Maria.

Terminal Varreux receives and stores more than 70% of Haiti's fuel.

The United States Government Defense Energy Support Center provides fueling services to Department of Defense, federal civilian and government agencies.

Court Orders all of Company's Ships Barred from U.S. Waters for Three Years.

The European Commission presents a proposal which 'further strengthens the existing Community legislation regarding sanctions on those responsible for pollution by ships'.

The Marine Accident Investigators’ International Forum (MAIFF) met in Beijing last week to discuss recent marine accidents and the development of new investigation technologies.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in conjunction with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has assumed the federal oversight role of the unified command from the U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) following the response to a 2,100 gallon oil spill into the Christina River from the International Petroleum Corporation (IPC) of Delaware.

With respect to the ongoing investigation into the al-Salam Boccaccio 98 ferry disaster in the Red Sea on 3 February 2006, IMO wishes to clarify the status of its current activities.

THE Liberian Registry has responded quickly to unconfirmed reports that an oil spill off the north-west coast of Estonia may have originated from the Liberian-flag tanker Flawless.

Italian classification society RINA has expressed regret and sympathy at the loss of the Al Salam Boccaccio 98, the 11,779 gt ro-ro passenger ferry which sank about fifty miles off the coast of Egypt in the Red Sea on February 3, with heavy loss of life.

Dutch salvage and towage company Multraship Salvage BV has successfully refloated the Slovakian pusher-tug Polana, which sank in the River Danube on December 19 last year following a serious fire in it engine room.

Despite unfavourable weather and sea swells which at times have been more than four metres, all IMO-classified hazardous cargo has now been removed from CP Valour following its grounding in the Azores on 9th December.

A Chief Engineer from the M/V Fair Voyager was recently sentenced to serve six months in federal prison for conspiring with others to violate the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

The 2,757 teu container vessel Fowairet, which suffered hogging damage and hold flooding after running aground on September 20 between Terneuzen and Antwerp with part-hazardous cargo, has been safely towed to Rotterdam by joint salvors Multraship Salvage and URS Salvage and Maritime Contracting.

John M Lyras, Chairman of the London P&I Club, has warned that there is a danger that recent moves - particularly within Europe - to criminalise those seafarers whose errors lead to accidents, could have an adverse, rather than a positive, effect on safety in shipping.

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency prosecuted Brostrom Tankers AB, Owners of the ‘Bro Traveller’ in Kingston upon Hull Magistrates Court today for breaches of the UK Maritime Pollution legislation.

MPA patrol craft and passing ships have confirmed that there has been no oil pollution in the Singapore port waters, the Singapore Straits and Horsburgh Lighthouse area, as a result of the collision.

On 25 May 05 at about 2003 hrs, a collision between Liberian-registered tanker, MT Chrisopigi Lady (42,058GT) and Panama-registered bulk carrier MV Yue Shan (86,192GT) took place at about 3.5 km southwest of St John’s Island.

A bill to increase the limits of shipowners' liability and govern regional carriers' liability according to an internationally accepted liability regime was gazetted on 7 January and is scheduled to be introduced into the Legislative Council on 19 January 2005.

On 5 January 2005, at about 2330hrs, a barge Viva 3 (1,252 gross tons) ran aground at about 700 metres southeast of Horsburgh Lighthouse in the Singapore port waters.

Gov. Gary Locke and RADM Jeffrey Garrett announce that tests conducted by both state and federal laboratories indicate the Polar Texas oil tanker, owned by ConocoPhillips, is the source of the oil that soiled beaches around Dalco Passage in October.

The tank ship Torm Mary, which was involved in the oil spill on the Neches River on 2 August, transited to the Gulf of Mexico without incident on 8 August.