Toxic ship's entry into India barred
In what may come as a temporary respite for environmentalists protesting dismantling of large ships with toxic waste on Indian shores, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has on Sunday decided to bar French cruise liner, S S Norway, from entering Indian waters.   full text

Cape Harbour Environment Report Flawed - Minister
Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has criticised an environmental impact report for the National Ports Authority's R3,2bn expansion of Cape Town's container terminal as "flawed" and "irresponsible".   full text

Harbor cleanup plan under fire
Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development Inc. -- with the help of high-profile attorney Peter Angelos -- is trying to block a settlement reached between Honeywell International Inc. and the state over the environmental cleanup of chromium at the Dundalk Marine Terminal.   full text

Courts ban ‘toxic’ ship from BD waters
A Bahamian-registered ship that environmentalists say is “toxic” and was due to be dismantled in Bangladesh has been banned from entering its territorial waters by the Dhaka High Court, lawyers said on Wednesday.   full text

Polluting ship goes unpunished despite report
A bulk carrier that allegedly dumped oily bilge water off Vancouver Island has gone unpunished -- despite the fact crew tried to report the illegal act, the Vancouver Province has learned.   full text

Health tests offered as fishermen of Sydney Harbour fear dioxin poison
With its sparkling blue seas, iconic bridge and stunning Opera House, Sydney Harbour is regarded as one of the most beautiful stretches of water in the world.   full text

Protocol regulating sea pollution comes into force Sea Views
A significant milestone for the protection of marine environment was reached on Friday with the entry into force of the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972, following its ratification on February 22 by Mexico, the 26th country to do so.   full text

Cruise Lines Aim to Reduce Marine Impacts from Cruise Industry
The International Council of Cruise Lines (ICCL) and Conservation International (CI) have announced a joint initiative to develop a global map that integrates additional sensitive marine areas into cruise line navigational charts where wastewater discharge should be avoided.   full text

Labor Lends Its Clout to Port Pollution Battle
The powerful union representing 60,000 West Coast dockworkers is stepping publicly into the port air pollution arena for the first time, saying it will pressure seaports and shipowners to slash emissions.   full text

Deadlock ends as French ‘asbestos’ ship heads to India
A decommissioned French aircraft carrier has entered the Suez canal after a 10-day controversy over fears its asbestos insulation posed an environmental hazard, the canal authority said on Monday.   full text

NCL demonstrates its dedication to environmental protection
Norwegian Cruise Line has announced that it has launched an environmental programme to complement the onboard youth activities already available. Designed to educate young people about the importance of clean water....   full text

Shipping firm to pay $10.5 mln in US pollution case
A Hong Kong-based shipping company that used a "magic pipe" to dump oil-contaminated sludge into the Atlantic Ocean has pleaded guilty and will pay $10.5 million, federal prosecutors said on Monday.   full text

Calif. officials vote to regulate ship pollution at state ports
State air regulators on Thursday approved new regulations to curb pollution from cargo ships, cruise liners and other large vessels that enter state ports, making California one of the first states to regulate emissions from oceangoing ships.   full text

Report: Ocean Noise Harms Dolphins, Whales
Increasing levels of ocean noise generated by military sonar, shipping, and oil and gas exploration is threatening dolphins and whales that rely on sound for mating, finding food and avoiding predators, according to a new report.   full text

Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises Honored for Environmental Performance by the Ports of Stockholm
Royal Caribbean International's Jewel of the Seas and Celebrity Cruises' Constellation have been honored by the Ports of Stockholm with its Environmental Life-Buoy Certificate for their use of low sulfur fuel.   full text

Karlog Shipping Company, Ltd. Pleads Guilty To Concealing Vessel Pollution
Karlog Shipping Company Ltd. (Karlog Shipping)-operator of a fleet of cargo freighters based in Piraeus, Greece-pleaded guilty to making false statements and obstructing justice in connection with the overboard discharge of waste oil through a hidden bypass pipe on the M/V Friendship, a Greek-registered cargo ship, the Justice Department announced   full text

European Commission launches innovative air pollution monitoring station
The European Commission and the Italian Shipping Line “Costa Crociere” have launched a new way of monitoring man-made pollution of the atmosphere - essential to improving our understanding of climate change.   full text

Scientists Collect Fish To Assess Environmental Damage from Katrina
Scientists harvested fish off the Mississippi coast as part of the latest effort to assess environmental damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina's monstrous storm surge and toxic floodwaters.   full text

Green groups attack cruise ship terminal plans
Environmental groups have vowed to step up their campaign against a planned cruise ship terminal on the Gold Coast. State Cabinet has approved plans for a massive marine development project on The Spit that will include a cruise ship facility as well as a super yacht marina.   full text

Dutch shipping company fined for pollution
The owners of a Dutch cargo ship have been ordered to pay a $70,000 fine for polluting Canadian waters.   full text

Protection of maritime resources 'top priority'
A CALL has gone out for more vigilant control of the marine environment as more than $90 billion (BD34bn) is expected to be invested in the Gulf's oil and gas infrastructure over the next five years.   full text

Greenpeace action puts stop to dredging at Pansio harbour in Turku
Activists of the environmental organisation Greenpeace brought dredging work to a halt at the Pansio harbour in Turku on Thursday. At about nine in the morning, the Greenpeace members in a rubber boat appeared below the digging machine to prevent it from dredging the harbour, and piling the material from the bottom back in the sea in another location.   full text

Shipping Industry Responds to Calls to Cut Air Pollution as Environmental Meetings Conclude
Responding to pressure by environmental groups and governments, the London-based United Nations body that regulates shipping across the world agreed to review air pollution standards   full text

Port calls increase air pollution
Ships anchoring at Tokyo Port emit about eight times more sulfur oxides a year than the total amount emitted by automobiles in six Tokyo wards along Tokyo Bay, the Tokyo metropolitan government's Bureau of Environment said Thursday   full text

Port of Los Angeles Repowers Popular Catalina Express Vessel with More Environmentally Sensitive, Cleaner-Burning Engines
First of 18 Proposals Selected to Receive Funding from the Port's $20 million Air Quality Mitigation Program. As part of a five-year, $20 million Air Quality Mitigation Program to fund clean air projects at the Port of Los Angeles, one of the most visible and utilized passenger vessels at the Port of Los Angeles is getting a $1 million clean-air makeover. full text

Shipping Expert Cautions On Ocean Pollution
Maritime operator and Chairman, NBE Oceaneering Limited, Chief Chris Igbojekwe has decried the wanton degradation of the ocean coasts and Nigeria's Navigable waters in recent time.   full text

Greenpeace intercepts European ship attempting to illegally dump toxic waste in Turkey
Greenpeace activists have intercepted a European cargo vessel while it illegally attempted to enter a Turkish shipbreaking yard with dangerous toxic waste.   full text

Cruise industry pushed to curb pollution
The cruise industry has gotten so big that all its ships together could hold each of Miami's 360,000 residents with room to spare. And just like cities, cruise lines have to deal with a nasty problem: the millions of gallons of sewage those people produce.   
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Emission standards to be set for ships sailing Baltic Sea
Maritime traffic is seen as major contributor to air pollution. Maritime traffic has been found to be a major source of air pollution. Ships sailing in Finnish territorial waters account for up to 96% of the sulphur emissions from transport, and for almost half of the nitrogen emissions in this branch. Ships' smokestacks put nearly 72,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides and over 19,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the air while sailing in Finnish waters in 2003.   
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Environment checks halt port dredging
A $550MILLION project to deepen the nation's busiest shipping channel has been seriously delayed, with the Victorian Government ordering more environment checks.   
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Cargo ship engineer gets jail for ocean pollution
The chief engineer of cargo ship M/V Katerina was sentenced to eight months in federal prison Thursday after admitting he allowed oily waste to be pumped into the ocean.   
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Environment checks halt port dredging
A $550MILLION project to deepen the nation's busiest shipping channel has been seriously delayed, with the Victorian Government ordering more environment checks.   
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Cargo ship engineer gets jail for ocean pollution
The chief engineer of cargo ship M/V Katerina was sentenced to eight months in federal prison Thursday after admitting he allowed oily waste to be pumped into the ocean.   
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Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises Announce Environmental Ship Of The Year Awards
Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises today announced their 2004 Environmental Ship Of The Year awards, with Jewel of the Seas being honored by Royal Caribbean and Constellation being honored by Celebrity.   full text

Britannia ruins the waves: how pollution and over-fishing are destroying sea life
Fish are changing sex. Species are disappearing as breeding patterns collapse. The food chain is in chaos as temperatures rise, says the first ever major audit of the state of our seas. Severin Carrell reveals what ministers will say on Tuesday about the damage being done to British waters by industry and global warming.   full text

Convention on Civil Liability ratified: Oil pollution damages
Pakistan accedes to International Convention on Civil Liability for oil pollution damage which will enable the country to meet the liability regime for compensation against any claims due to pollution by persistent oil escape or discharge from a ship , official sources said on Saturday.   full text

Agreement reached to clean Bay Harbor
A deal has been reached to clean up pollution oozing into Lake Michigan from cement kiln dust piles on the grounds of the Bay Harbor luxury resort, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said last week.   full text

Impact of environmental treaty unclear
A controversial world treaty designed to curb emissions of global warming gases goes into effect Wednesday, but even ardent supporters say it isn't enough to stop a runaway environmental problem.   full text

Oil slick reaches Israel's coast
An oil slick caused when two tankers collided off Egypt's Mediterranean coast nine days ago reached the southern Israeli coast Saturday morning.   full text

Mangrove forests: a natural defence against tsunami
Scientists, environmentalists and fishing communities agree that the impact of Asian tsunami was considerably worsened by shrimp farms and other industrial developments which destroyed or degraded mangrove forests and other natural sea defences. With the loss of mangroves, the potential of damage from tsunami is maximized.   full text

Counties Seek Power To Protect Mangroves
Mangroves, the twisted green jungles that cling to Florida's southern coasts, provide nurseries for fish and shellfish, filter pollution and take the steam out of the strongest hurricane.   full text

Tonnes of oil spills in tanker crash
TWO oil tankers collided off Egypt's northern Mediterranean coast today, causing an oil spill, Egyptian shipping sources said.   full text

Clean-up ordered
A COMPANY has been ordered to clean up a beach where it has been illegally dumping silt for almost 20 years.   full text

Oil on troubled waters
When crude oil devastated Alaska's coast in 1989, the damage to wildlife was all too clear. Only now is the cost to human life being fully realised.   full text

Pollution blamed on KPA dispute
Tonnes of garbage are released into the Indian Ocean waters annually by ships docking in Mombasa, following a two-year waste disposal dispute between Kenya Ports Authority and a waste disposal company.   full text

Oil spill dirties waters off Tacoma
Emergency crews responded to another mystery oil spill in Puget Sound's Dalco Passage yesterday, just as state lawmakers were meeting to consider new spill-response guidelines recommended after a 1,000-gallon spill there last fall.   full text

Tsunami damage to Indonesia environment millions
Beyond the horrific loss of human life, the recent Indian Ocean tsunami extensively damaged Indonesia's coastal environment, causing $675 million in losses to natural habitats and important ecosystem functions, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reported today   full text

Pemex: $3B is needed for urgent repairs
Dealing with yet another pipeline leak, Mexico's state-run oil company said Wednesday it needs $3 billion for urgent repairs over the next six years.   full text

Improved protection against oil pollution
Fisheries Minister Svein Ludvigsen has presented plans for improving the preparedness against oil pollution along the coast of Norway.   full text

Pollution Worsens in China's Seas
Marine pollution has posed a grave challenge to China over the past year, said State Oceanic Administration spokesman Li Chunxian on Sunday in Beijing.   full text

Ships Banned from Discharging Pollutants into Bohai Sea
Starting from Friday, the discharge pipelines of ships in the east Bohai Sea are required to be sealed to avoid pouring water carrying waste oil into the sea, according to information from the administration of maritime affairs.   full text

Petrobras Detects Oil Leak Off the Coast of Rio
Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), or Petrobras, Friday said it discovered an underwater oil leak next to one of its offshore oil wells at the bottom of the South Atlantic.   full text

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