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DJ Norilsk Nickel Raises Sunk Metals Barge At Dudinka Port

Wednesday, July 23, 2008; Posted: 07:38 AM

MOSCOW, Jul 23, 2008 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) -- NLKNY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- The port authority at Dudinka, Norilsk Nickel's only export outlet, announced Wednesday they had raised the barge that had sunk with 2,822 metric tons of copper on June 15.

Oil pours into river after boat collision

11:26 AM CDT on Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard closed a 12-mile stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a collision early Wednesday a tugboat pushing one barge and a 600-foot tanker.

Nobody was injured, but more than 419,000 gallons of heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the barge, said Lt. Cdr.

Collision closes Mississippi River at New Orleans

The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard closed a 12-mile stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a collision early Wednesday between a tugboat pushing one barge and a 600-foot tanker.

No injuries were reported after the crash between the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara and the tug Mel Oliver, but the barge split in half and diesel could be smelled at Harrah's casino in New Orleans, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jaclyn Young said.

TITAN Salvage Works Jointly to Successfully Relocate the Sunken World War I Germ

Scaldis' sheerleg Norma.

(POMPANO BEACH, Fla.; July 22, 2008) TITAN Salvage, Crowley Maritime Corporation's salvage and wreck removal company, reported today that its salvage team along with Scaldis Marine Contractors successfully completed the relocation of a World War I German Submarine named UB38 in the Dover Strait.

The UB38 sank in 1918 after it ran into a minefield while trying to escape British destroyers. The mine exploded between the conning tower and stern sinking the submarine with all 27 hands in what is now the southwest lane of the Dover Strait Traffic Separation Scheme close to Varne Bank. In her two years of operation, the submarine sank 46 allied ships totaling 47,000 tons. Though the submarine has never been considered a danger to navigation in the strait, recently ships with much deeper draft, particularly oil tankers, were causing concern.

Public hearing today on waste proposal by Plaquemines Parish landfill

by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune Tuesday July 15, 2008, 6:28 AM

A proposal by a controversial Plaquemines Parish construction debris landfill to begin accepting waste shipped to it by barge on the Hero Canal will face a public hearing before state environmental regulators today.

Industrial Pipe Inc., owner of the facility, was cited for violating its operating permit by accepting its first bargeload of debris from a Chicago landfill through the wrong entrance to the landfill in April, said Tyler Ginn, director of the state Department of Environmental Quality's enforcement division.

One swing for a million bucks

By Kieran Darcy
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NEW YORK -- In case you didn't know, there were two home run contests in New York on Monday: the Home Run Derby, and Homers in the Hudson.

Catalyst Public Relations As you can see, hitting the glove, let alone the hole, was not an easy task.

The latter took place at Pier 61 on Manhattan's West Side, overlooking the Hudson River. On a barge, stationed 150 feet away from the pier, stood a 25-foot-tall inflatable bottle of Vitaminwater, topped off by a 5-foot baseball glove with a small hole in the center. The first 200 fans who showed up got the opportunity to take one swing -- and one swing only -- off a tee at the end of the pier. Hit the ball in the hole and you win $1 million.

Crews prepare to remove sunken barge in Dubuque

July 15, 2008 08:00 EDT

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) -- Crews are working to remove a partially submerge barge from the Mississippi River at the base of a bridge in Dubuque.

The barge is the last remnant of an accident between a tow of 15 barges and a bridge support on the Julien Dubuque Bridge on June 9.

Coast Guard routes river traffic around sunken tug

by The Times-Picayune
Sunday July 13, 2008, 4:24 PM

A 56-foot tugboat sank in the Mississippi River near Westwego early Sunday, but no injuries were reported, the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard established a mile-long safety zone in the river so that vessel traffic can safely pass around the sunken Ruby E.

Barge Traffic Resumes on Mississippi River

Jason Vance jvance@farmprogress.com
July 11, 2008

The Army Corps of Engineers opened the last of the closed locks on the Upper Mississippi River last weekend and barge traffic has resumed. However the three weeks that the river was closed has backed up shipping on the river and it will take some time for traffic to get back to normal. Tom Torretti with Cooper Consolidated in St. Louis says it's hard to tell how long it will take, but he estimates it will be 30 to 45 days.

Merchant marine slips aboard tugboat, ruptures disc

Published: July 10, 2008

Plaintiff alleges deck was not skid-proof The plaintiff, a career merchant marine, was flaking line on the deck of a tugboat when the line got hung up and he felt a pop. The plaintiff, whose average yearly wage at the time was less than $47,000, had surgery to repair a ruptured disk and was out of work for approximately one year.