US Maritime Law
News and information about U.S. maritime law.
Author: Anonymous Miami-based maritime lawyers. Links to headlines from Maritime Reporter and Engineering News are also provided.
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Recent Posts from US Maritime Law
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Piracy Ended With Military Action by US
On April 8th, 2009, four Somali pirates boarded the small container ship Maersk Alabama and left, taking the captain hostage. Five days later, the crisis has been ended by naval sniper fire. Adrift in the…
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Shell Oil Cast More Than Pennies Down This Well
Shell Oil has embarked on quite an ambitious project 200 hundred miles off the coast of Galveston, TX. In the summer to 2008 they anchored a newly built 50,000 ton floating rig to the seafloor,…
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Floating City Soon to Sail
In the American spirit of bigger is better and super sizing it, Royal Caribbean is coming close to completing their new $1.2 billion flagship, the Oasis of the Seas. This ship will have the new…
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Cruise ship strikes ice, stranded on Antarctic coast
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) – A cruise ship carrying 122 people was stranded Thursday on the coast of Antarctica after striking ice, officials said. Mariano Memolli of the Argentina Antarctic Directorate told Argentina’s TodoNoticias (TN)…
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Somali Pirate Update - Nov 19th 2008
Indian warship destroys a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden $10m ransom demanded for captured Saudi supertanker Somali Pirates Hijack Thai Fishing Boat & 16 Crew Ship belonging to Iran’s state shipping lines captured…
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Somali Pirates Hijack Saudi Oil Tanker
Just six weeks after Somali pirates had hijacked a Ukrainian ship bound for Kenya, Somali pirates have reportedly hijacked a Saudi oil tanker off the eastern coast of Africa. The 1,000 ft-long Sirius Star, which…
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Cruise Company Sued Over Fuel Surcharges
Attorney General Bill McCollum filed a lawsuit against a Broward County cruise ship company for failing to adequately disclose fuel surcharge fees. According to the lawsuit, Imperial Majesty Cruise Line LLC has collected approximately $4m…
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Delta Queen, National Historic Landmark, Refused Exemption from SOLA
The Delta Queen, a steamboat operated by Majestic America Line, will be retired after nearly eighty years of service. While the “Safety of Life at Sea Act” classified boats with wooden superstructures as fire hazards…
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Heather platform evacuated after oil leak
Personnel were evacuated today from the Petrofac-operated Heather oil production platform in the UK North Sea after an oil leak in the processing module shut down the facility. Petrofac, which runs the Heather platform for…
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Irving Oil, Global Petroleum Settles for $315,500
BOSTON (UsMaritimeLaw.org) - On March 8, 2006, contractors allegedly removed at least one check-valve from an oil fuel loading dock jointly owned by New Hampshire-based Irving Oil, Irving Oil Terminals and Global Petroleum Corp. This…