Tacoma added a new fireboat to its fleet this week. The boat is faster, more agile and more economical to operate than the aging boat it joins, but the $675,000, 30-foot Destiny has one thing in common with its fleet mate: Both were built outside the United States. The Destiny…
In March, the Grand Alliance shipping lines decided to move from Seattle to Tacoma. When that happens in July, it will take about 20 percent of the container business from the Port of Seattle, more if lines associated with the alliance, Zim and Hamburg Sud, decide to go, too. The…
An Australia boat-building company has decided to open a facility in Anacortes rather than in Bellingham. Last month Aluminum Boats Australia entered into a 30-day due diligence period with the Port of Bellingham to lease a 30,000-square-foot site at the Fairhaven Marine Industrial Park, near the Bellingham Cruise Terminal. According…
Earlier this month, the Coast Guard sank a 164-foot Japanese shrimping vessel, the Ryou-Un Maru, in the Gulf of Alaska about 195 miles south of Sitka after the vessel drifted for over a year across the Pacific Ocean. The vessel was dislodged in Hokkaido due to the March 2011 tsunami.…
A spectacular fire destroyed a 105-foot yacht at Fishermen’s Terminal before dawn today, April 27, 2012, just hours before it was due to depart on a 15-day Alaskan cruise. No one was injured, and a harbor patrol boat managed to tow a half-dozen other boats away from the fire to…
On Thursday afternoon, the Coast Guard has suspended its search pending further developments for a 48-year-old man who was reported to have fallen overboard into the frigid Atlantic from a Boston-bound tugboat approximately nine miles south of Newport, R.I. on Wednesday. The man was the master of the New York…
Fumes in a building at Everett’s Everest College sickened 12 people Wednesday morning, Everett Fire officials said. Firefighters and hazardous materials teams got the call just before 10 a.m. that people were complaining of headaches and nausea inside the college building at 906 S.E. Everett Mall Way, said Eric Hicks…
Seafaring work poses unique dangers that land-based work does not. As a result, American mariners are entitled to the protection of a number of federal laws that regulate shipboard safety and provide remedies for workers who are injured in maritime accidents. In addition to those laws, nearly all seamen –…
Washington Gubernatorial hopefuls Jay Inslee and Rob McKenna are offering some ideas about how to bolster the region’s maritime industry but didn’t specifically say how they would pay for those improvements. Both candidates spoke at the Bering Seas Fisheries Conference in Seattle on Tuesday, April 26, telling commercial fisherman, shipbuilders…
In 2010, Congress enacted the Seaman’s Protection Act. The Act provides a remedy for seaman that have reported unsafe conditions to the United States Coast Guard, violations of U.S. Coast Guard regulations, refused to perform duties because of reasonable apprehension that performing such duties would result in personal injury,…