The trend of modernizing ships and fitting them with more efficient separator systems, which has been noticeable since 2014 particularly in Europe and North America, has continued seamlessly into the ...

Magic Pipes, 15 PPM alarms, crew familiarization, improper entries in the oil record book, oil record book not maintained: these are all terms used by various Port State Control (PSC) officers ...

A slew of oily waste and garbage was dumped directly into the ocean over the course of six months last year as the cargo ship M/V Pac Antares made its way off the coast of North Carolina, according to ...

A crewman is going to prison after dumping gallons of oily ship waste into US waters off the coast of New Orleans and lying to Coast Guard, prosecutors say. Getty Images/iStock photo A foreign ship’s ...

Sophisticated alert systems are not doing enough to halt the spillage of oily wastewater from cargo ships in European seas, data and insider accounts show. Ships are still illegally dumping wastewater ...

NOAA Ship Rainier set out to map the ocean floor in April 2013, working on a tight budget as Congress argued over the national debt and slashed agency budgets under sequestration. Rainier is known for ...