Mississippi Maritime Blog
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
On the morning of March 10, an Indonesian ship sank off the coast of Singapore after colliding with a ferry. One crew member from the Indonesian ship is still missing, and Singapore's Maritime and ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2013
A claim adjuster exists in order to research the accident you were involved in for the insurance company in order to determine fault and affirm or deny a parties fault or liability in a claim. These ...
Continue reading "Cautioning Against Offshore Adjusting Firms" »
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
On March 15, three days after a tug and oil barge hit a pipeline filled with Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG), the resulting fire was still raging in a Louisiana bayou about 30 miles south of New Orleans. ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2013
In Jackson, Mississippi, an oil spill shut down traffic on an entire section of the Mississippi River this weekend. According to Yahoo! News, a tug boat that was pushing two tank barges down the ...
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Posted on Jan 15, 2013
On January 8 th, the American Waterways Operators (AWO) and Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) had reason to celebrate as they listened to the official statements made by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and the ...
Continue reading "Senator Says Mississippi River Can Sustain Navigation Through End of Month" »
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
The USS Hatteras was a Civil War vessel that was shot down in a battle with the Confederate raider CSS Alabama. The steamship was riddled with bullet wounds when she met the Alabama in an uneven ...
Continue reading "150th Anniversary of the USS Hatteras Sinking Brings New Images" »
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
A tugboat traveling approximately 70 miles off the coast of Maui, Hawaii caught fire on December 5, prompting several Coast Guard crews to come to its rescue. The commercial tug Phyllis Dunlap gave a ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2012
An Iowa corn-processing plant has been fined $4.1 million and will have to spend another $17 million to improve its sewage system as part of a court agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency ...
Continue reading "Iowa Plant Fined $4 Million for Sewage Dumping" »
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
In the wake of the devastating Hong Kong ferry crash that killed 38 people and injured hundreds, investigators are trying to uncover the true cause of the accident. One of the current theories is that ...
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Posted on Oct 24, 2012
Seven crewmembers of the Bourbon Liberty 249 were kidnapped off the coast of Nigeria on October 15. Representatives from Bourbon say that the seven men were kidnapped when pirates boarded the ship. ...
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Posted on Oct 17, 2012
The German container ship, MSC Flaminia, had recently left port from Charleston, South Carolina and was on its way back to Bremerhaven, Germany. Suddenly and without warning, a large explosion stopped ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2012
A recent Hong Kong ferry crash has shed some light on one of the banes of the maritime industry, hours of operation. For years there have been concerns over vessel operator fatigue, but last ...
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Posted on Oct 2, 2012
Resolve Salvage & Fire recently removed their first 600 tons of steel from the Rena wreck located off the coast of New Zealand. Resolve is an international organization that does salvages in the ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2012
Ten years have passed since the people of Africa experienced their very own Titanic maritime accident, one that claimed many more lives. The government funded ferry, the MV Le Joola, tragically sank ...
Continue reading "Africa's Titanic: One of the Worst Maritime Accidents in History" »
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
The Coast Guard is currently searching for a 21-year-old woman who fell overboard a cruise ship near Florida last Sunday night. This information was released from the Coast Guard. The accident took ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2012
In February of 2012, members of an Italian navy Vessel Protection Detachment shot two Indian fishermen. It is alleged that the Italian navy members thought the fishermen were pirates. A new report, ...
Continue reading "Is Private Security a Good Idea?" »
Posted on Sep 5, 2012
Kirby Corporation, the largest domestic take barge operator in the United States, agrees to purchase assets of Allied Transportation Company. Kirby Corporation is transports bulk liquid products ...
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Posted on Aug 27, 2012
According to reports by the U.S. Coast Guard, a 55 year old crew member of the container ship Jupiter was severely injured while attempting to extinguish a fire that broke out onboard the ship while ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2012
The United States Department of Transportation has acquired a new vessel – the MV Liberty Star. The ship will be used by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York to train ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2012
Last year, President Barak Obama stated that, "A world-class education is the single most important factor in determining not just whether our kids can compete for the best jobs but whether ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2012
The Midwest is experiencing one of the most severe droughts our nation has ever seen. The lack of rain isn't just bad for the crops. It is also hurting the transportation industry. Many of the ...
Continue reading "Midwest Drought Making Barge Travel Difficult" »
Posted on Aug 6, 2012
The Gulf Coast is home to a majority of the nation's maritime workers. Spanning across only five U.S. states, this small area has a large role in the offshore industry. It is for this reason that ...
Continue reading "New Maritime Training Program in the Gulf" »
Posted on Aug 1, 2012
On January 16, 2012, a blowout and explosion on the Chevron KS Endeavor gas exploration platform off the coast of Nigeria killed two employees and ignited a fire that could not be extinguished for 46 ...
Continue reading "Worker Accounts Reveal Chevron Ignored Evacuation Requests Prior to Deadly Nigeria Rig Explosion" »
Posted on Jul 30, 2012
The United States Coast Guard had to medevac (medical evacuation) a crewmember from a ship on the Mississippi River this past Sunday. The call came in the early hours of the morning. The distress call ...
Continue reading "Maritime Worker Suffers Laceration & Severe Bleeding" »
Posted on Jul 23, 2012
Generally speaking, the idea of drilling for oil is pretty simple: platforms and oil rigs extract oil and gas from natural water sources like the ocean and lakes. As the demand for gasoline and oil ...
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