« Back to Events iCal Import Underwater Defence & Security is an international conference and exhibition dedicated to the subsea defence and security market. The conference attracts an international array of delegates from navies, coast guards, maritime police and civilian authorities who are all tasked with ensuring the defence of our subsea environment. The exhibition …
Read more »Published on November 2, 2012 by jo.chuter · No Comments Russia is seeking to base two Ilyushin Il-38 maritime surveillance aircraft to Djibouti in support of its anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. A number of nations base anti-piracy aircraft in the Horn of Africa country, which borders on the pirate infested waters of …
Read more »Published on November 2, 2012 by jo.chuter · No Comments On 31 October, the Force Commander of the EU Naval Force Somalia – Operation Atalanta (EU NAVFOR), Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino, met Jacques Launay, Head of EUCAP Nestor, the European Union mission on Regional Maritime Capacity Building in the Horn of Africa. With this meeting, …
Read more »Published on November 2, 2012 by jo.chuter · No Comments Rescue operations are under way in India’s southern city of Chennai to find five sailors missing from an oil tanker that ran aground in a cyclone. Coast guard helicopters and boats are combing the sea for sailors from the Pratibha Cauvery. One of the crew …
Read more »Published on November 2, 2012 by jo.chuter · No Comments DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (NNS) — Sailors and civilian maritime professionals from eight nations officially kicked-off exercise Cutlass Express 2012-2 (CE12-2) during pre-sail conferences in Djibouti, Djibouti; Port Louis, Mauritius; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nov. 1. This year’s weeklong exercise, being conducted for the …
Read more »HMS Bounty as it was sinking on Monday during Hurricane Sandy. Photo: USCG Rear Adm. Steven Ratti, the Coast Guard 5th District commander, ordered a district formal investigation Thursday to determine the cause of the sinking of the Tall Ship Bounty, the three-masted sailing ship that sank Monday 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C. during …
Read more »Bourbon Calm, image courtesy Ulstein China’s Zhejiang Shipbuilding delivered the platform supply vessel Bourbon Calm today, the third in a series of four platform supply vessels of ULSTEIN’s PX105 designs built by this yard for Bourbon Offshore Norway. The ship has a length of 88.8 meters, a width of 19 meters, deadweight 4,290 tons and a maximum …
Read more »US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has issued a Jones Act waiver to allow foreign-flagged ships from the Gulf of Mexico into ports in the US northeast in order to deal with the fuel crisis that is exploding in the area after a pair of refineries had to be shut down. “The Administration’s …
Read more »The American Maritime Partnership, representing more than 40,000 Jones Act vessels, issued a statement late Thursday regarding the delivery of petroleum and other cargoes to areas hit by Hurricane Sandy saying that, although the U.S. maritime industry is already working around the clock to ensure speedy delivery of much needed cargoes to areas of the …
Read more »A tanker grounding in India turned fatal on Wednesday after a lifeboat capsized in heavy surf and now many are wondering why the Coast Guard wasn’t listening? gCaptain reported Wednesday that one person was killed and 5 went missing after the Indian-flagged MT Pratibha Cauvery broke free from an anchorage in Chennai, India and grounded …
Read more »