INTERVIEW ROBERT BALLARD t the age of 78, Robert D. Ballard is and always will be a scientist, an ocean explorer intrigued by ? nding clues to the unknown. Currently engaged in a 10-year, $100m program with A NOAA’s Of? ce of Ocean Exploration to map and characterize the US EEZ, a project which teams
INSIGHTS The Latest Waterfront Development Hustle t’s a tale as old as time. Which is why some of the oldest for private development – a new housing, of? ce, luxury hotel, land use regulations, notably the public trust doctrine, have and baseball stadium proposal by the Oakland A’s. Isurvived as basic
It’s not where you are It’s About the Author where you should Captain Paul Whyte MBE AFNI, Associ- ate Master Mariner, LOC has 37 years’ seagoing experience and 12 years’ sea command. LOC is an independent ma- that matters be rine and engineering consultancy and ECDIS & ELECTRONIC DATA survey organizat
Art Anderson Awarded U.S. Navy Contract The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, USN Seat- tle, has awarded Art Anderson Asso- ciates of Bremerton, Wash., a con- tract to provide naval architecture and marine engineering design serv- ices to support the modernization and repair
Jules Verne never dreamed of travelling around the world in mere seconds! Yet with IDB-A's reliable, high-quality INMARSAT service, it now takes just 2.5 seconds for your voice and crucial data to travel anywhere on earth! Hard to imagine that in his day, Phineas Fogg thought 80 days was fast!
displayed on maps of the U.S., in- cluding all inland waterways and lakes. Navigators will not need to purchase additional maps because they are incorporated into the GPS Navigational System. European and South Pacific models are also avail- able. The Humminbird GPS Naviga- tional System
Austal Ships To Build Massive High-Speed Multihull —i FRED. OLSEN Austal Ships and Fred. Olsen. S.A. have signed a contract for what the com- pany dubs the world's largest high-speed multihull vessel which will be based on a new hullform. When delivered in the second half of 2004. the 416-ft.
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BUYER'S DIRECTORY This directory section is an editorial feature published in every issue for the convenience of the readers of MARITIME REPORTER. A quick-reference readers' guide, it includes the names and addresses of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of all types of marine machinery,
Maritime Security Plans. Collectively, these components of the MTSA establish a layered securi- ty strategy that significantly strengthens and standardizes the security measures for the domestic port security team of federal, state, local and private authori- ties. Just as important, successful
Government Update the shipper was defined as "the ship- per's complete name and address, or identification number, from all bills of lading." MARINE SWITCHBOARDS & CONTROL SYSTEMS for Work Boots Luxury Yachts Sportfishing Boats Commercial Vessels Research Vessels Military Vessels
ACBL Announces Sweeping Changes Norb Whitlock, President and COO of American Commercial Barge Line LLC, said, "Today, we took another step to better position ACBL to emerge from Chapter 11 when we implemented a broad-based organizational restructuring that resulted in the release of 20
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Figure 2—Catenary anchor-leg mooring Offshore Oil Terminals (Continued from page 34) Canada, Bahamas and the Gulf. This does provide deepwater trans- shipment capability now, but in the long run, it is in the national interest to encourage private de- velopment of offshore terminals in U.S.
IDB-A Offers Its Lowest Rates Ever For Ship-to-Shore Service Pick up any shipboard phone and dial 11 for the highest quality transmissions and the only/w//worldwide coverage. IDB Aero-Nautical is proud to announce the completion of its POR and AOR-W Coast Earth Stations at Niles Canyon
Enhanced telex services have been added as well, including telex transmission to fax or E-mail and multiple address transmission from one telex. Early next year, IDB-A's network partner OTC-Australia will modify their coast station in Perth to accept IDB's Inmarsat ID num- ber. A number of
IDB-A Activates West Coast Inmarsat Earth Stations IDB Aero-Nautical's new dual earth stations at Niles Canyon, Calif., started routing maritime traf- fic this past September via Inmarsat from the Pacific and Western Atlantic Ocean Regions. Last May, the U.S Federal Com- munications Commission
Prospects for Deepwater Offshore By Adrian John, Analyst, Oil & Gas Research, Douglas-Westwood Ltd. & Georgie MacFarlan, Publications Manager, Douglas-Westwood Ltd. The World Deepwater Market Forecast, published by energy analysts Douglas-Westwood, forecasts continued growth in the deepwater sector
Singapore Telecom Offers Global Coverage Singapore Telecom announced that as of February 1, global cover- age of its Inmarsat-A services are available via the Sentosa Land Earth Station (LES). The company also said that information regard- ing the Sentosa LES is available on the worldwide
EUROPEAN UPDATE MacGregor completes turnkey refit of bow door'arrangement After two years, Estonia's sistership Mare Balticum has use of bow door When Estonia went down in the Baltic in September 1994, the bow door arrange-ment was blamed for the sinking. As a result, the bow of the 17,955-grt
Spanish Maritime Report sion technology with the recent re-deliv- ery of a crude carrier adapted for a North Sea offshore role as the 150,000-dwt Catherine Knutsen. Undertaken on behalf of Haugesund- based Knutsen OAS Shipping, a promi- nent customer of Spanish yards in the 1990s, the project
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Marc Newman Named VP Of Business Development For IDB Aero-Nautical It was recently announced by IDB Aero-Nautical Communications, Inc., (IDB-A), Rockville, Md., that Marc Newman has joined the com- pany as vice president of business development. Mr. Newman will be assuming direct responsibi