Americas News

An incorrectly installed section of main engine fuel oil return tubing led to an engine room fire aboard a containership off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined.

German propulsion firm Schottel has clinched a contract to supply rudder propellers for a self-propelled barge-based vessel stack exhaust capture and treatment system.

SB 1322 (Allen) – a bill that would require oil refiners to disclose their profits on a monthly basis – has passed out of the California Senate by a vote of 22 to 4 and will now be heard in the California Assembly.

Deliveries of residual fuel oil in the United States more than tripled last month as the shipping sector moved away from marine distillates.

TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Sempra Infrastructure, Mitsui and Mitsubishi for the development of the Hackberry Carbon Sequestration (HCS) project at the Louisiana-based Cameron LNG natural gas liquefaction and export facility.

The Panama Canal Authority has announced that a public hearing on Friday (20 May) marked the end of the ‘consultation period’ for industry feedback on the new tolls structure.

Citing the example of a towing vessel operating on the Mississippi River that lost propulsion due to the presence of water in its fuel, the US Coast Guard highlights that small vessels often have one or two filters installed directly in the fuel supply line which are not as efficient in removing water as the centrifugal purifiers used on larger vessels.

The Chief Engineer of a foreign flagged vessel has pleaded guilty to two felony counts for deliberately discharging approximately 10,000 gallons of oil-contaminated bilge water overboard in US waters off the coast of New Orleans last year.

The 477,901 metric tonnes (mt) of marine fuel sales in Panama last month represented the highest monthly total of the year.

Seaspan ULC has signed a shipbuilding contract for the construction of two 7,600 cubic metre (cbm) capacity LNG bunker vessels that will operate in the Pacific Northwest, with the option for a third vessel.