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1st Assistant Engineer W/ PIC In need of 1st/2nd Asst Engineers to work small tanker off coast of Japan. Must have a MMD W/ TANK-PIC. Paid travel w/ benefits.
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Port Engineer – Norfolk, VA and San Diego, CA Port Engineer must satisfy the following skills , knowledge and experience requirements: Approximately 6 years of commercial, Navy, or NOAA experience as an operating engineer and /or port engineer ; knowledge and experience in, commercial …
Marine Trades / Supervisors!!! – Tidewater, VA Unique Opportunity! Abacus Corporation is currently seeking experienced marine workers:
**Class A Electrical Supervisors
**Marine Electricians
**Outside Machinists
**Aluminum Welders
Long term shipyard project in the Tidewater, VA area. 1st, 2nd, 3rd shifts.
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**Class A Electrical Supervisors
**Marine Electricians
**Outside Machinists
**Aluminum Welders
Long term shipyard project in the Tidewater, VA area. 1st, 2nd, 3rd shifts.
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Technical Services Representative – CA California based boat builder is looking for an energetic Technical Services Representative who has experience in working in the boat industry. Applicant must have a good knowledge of boats and marine products, experience in …
Chief Vessel Engineer – USA Up to date Resume along with these USCG Documents Required:
Chief Engineer-1600 Domestic Ton/3000 ITC Tonnage any
Horsepower
STCW must match license
Rating forming part of an engineering
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Chief Engineer-1600 Domestic Ton/3000 ITC Tonnage any
Horsepower
STCW must match license
Rating forming part of an engineering
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Outside Machinist/Mechanic – Houston, TX Skills to work on board Ships and Rigs – on Diesel engines, Auxiliary Machinery, Pumps,repair Compressers, Anchor windlass, and Valves Ect. Supervision and guidance will be provided on the jobs. Persons selected should have standard …
MARINE SPECIALIST/VESSEL OPERATOR – Fort McMurray, Canada Position Title: Marine Specialist
Posting Number: 13533
Company: Suncory Energy
Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Dept. / Area: Tailings Operations
Job Family: Operations and Maintenance
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Posting Number: 13533
Company: Suncory Energy
Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Dept. / Area: Tailings Operations
Job Family: Operations and Maintenance
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Marine Engineer/Oiler Licensed – Brunswick Responsible for safe operation and maintenance of all shipboard propulsion, hydraulic, electrical and auxiliary systems. Experience with Caterpillar turbo charged diesel engines, hydraulic, electrical and oil recovery equipment is a plus.
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Maritime Law
When term business related to any field is used it mean certain law is automatically become part of it. When we look at the sea it looks difficult that we can apply any law to it but when business take places on the sea or ocean it need law as other business needs. As ships moves or sails from one country to another due to the business and trade it definitely needs certain rules and regulation that keep things straight even if any mishap take place. For this you can find the maritime law that defines the responsibilities of the ship owner and what he can recover incase of accident or any mishap. Maritime law is also known as admiralty law. Maritime law basically deals with the issues like losing ship or cargo due to collision or any other reason. Beside this insurance and liability issues when an accident takes place and collision compensation or salvage rights too.
In maritime law you can find certain principles that can clear your concepts about the law. One of the prominent and important principle of the maritime law is the limitation of shipowners liability due to this ship owner limit its liability according to the value of ship if any major accident occurs. One of the best examples is titanic when it sank the owner of the ship filed the limitation of liability for legal progress. According to the limitation act the owner of the ship can limit the liability according to the value of ship if accident that is not under the control of owner or if he is not aware about it. It is an example of 1912 but today ships are well equipped with communication equipments and in such situations many question arises but it doesn’t mean limitation act will not protect you it will protect you. On the other hand, if the other maritime law principle is related to the cargo shipped in international commerce that is under the rule of Carriage of Goods by Sea Acts. The owner of the ship can claim for cargo damages from loading to discharge and even if any natural disaster takes place. Sometimes error in navigation or controlling ship not cargo in such situation ship owner can claim for cargo damages and he will get liability. The claim for cargo damages is only valid for one year.
All remedies or liability is not only available for the ship owner but there are certain responsibilities of the ship owners too, which they need to fulfill it. The personal injuries to seaman is another principle of maritime law in which the ship owner need to pay for injured seaman for his medical treatment until he is not get well. Beside this he will get basic living expense till voyage is complete and even if seaman is not on the ship. According to the principle of maintenance and cure if seaman gets injured due to his negligence he might not be able to obtain any rights. Above we have discussed few principles of maritime law there are more principles that you can find on internet. The other principles you can check out such as personal injures to passengers and salvage. david mandell
ADMIRALTY AND MARITIME LAW
The Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide includes over 1,500 annotated links to admiralty law resources on the Internet and a growing database of admiralty case digests, opinions and international maritime conventions.
OceanPortal (Reference)
A UNESCO sponsored site that is a comprehensive directory of ocean related and maritime web sites, with an objective of helping scientists and other ocean experts locate relevant information on the Internet.
Hong Kong Maritime Law Association (Associations)
The Hong Kong Maritime Law Association was established in 1978. Its membership includes maritime lawyers, shipowners, P&I clubs and other persons and organisations who have an interest in maritime law. The site includes a detailed page containing links to the relevant maritime ordinances and cases.
The following are digests of recent United States Circuit Court Admiralty decisions, with links to the full opinions. For past digests and opinions organized by date and subject, see the Circuit Court Admiralty Opinions page, where it is also possible to search the database of Circuit Court opinions.
Arthur v. Maersk, Inc.
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
January 13, 2006
Suits in Admiralty Act/Procedure: Where Plaintiff seaman amended his complaint to name the United States as defendant in his Jones Act action, although the claim was past the two year Suits in Admiralty Act statute of limitations, the amended claim nonetheless related back to the original complaint under Rule 15 and was not time barred because: (1) the claim in the amended pleading arose out of the “conduct, transaction, or occurrence” set forth in the original pleading; (2) within 120 days of institution of the action, the party to be brought in by amendment had received “such notice of the . . . action that the party will not be prejudiced in maintaining a defense on the merits”; and, (3) within 120 days of institution of the action, the party to be brought in by amendment knew or should have known that, “but for a mistake concerning the identity of the proper party,” the action would have been brought against that party.
Paparo v. M/V ETERNITY
First Circuit Court of Appeals
January 5, 2006
Longshore & Harbor Workers' Act/Procedure: The Court reversed the District Court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the vessel and against the plaintiff longshoreman. The material facts were in dispute and the longshoreman was entitled to have a jury decide whether he had proven his case that the vessel was negligent, causing his injury. Plaintiff contended that the accident occurred when someone on board the ETERNITY prematurely used the ship's winch to haul a line he was holding back in, thus jerking the line out of his grip, causing him to fall. The facts surrounding this allegation were in dispute such that the District Court was in error to have accepted the theory of the vessel's expert witness that the winch would have pulled the line back too slowly and gradually to create the yanking motion that Plaintiff alleged.
Stevedoring Services of America v. Price
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
January 5, 2006
Longshore & Harbor Workers' Act: Although 33 U.S.C. § 928(a) authorizes district courts to award fees “in the successful prosecution” of a Longshore & Harbor Workers' claim, § 928(c) states that a court “may approve an attorney’s fee for the work done before it by the attorney for the claimant.” In view of this language, the district court lacked jurisdiction to award fees to claimant, because the work undertaken in successfully opposing his employer’s certiorari petition to the United States Supreme Court was not work done “before” the district court.
Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Lines
June 6, 2005
Government Regulation: Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U. S. C. §12181 et seq., is applicable to foreign-flag cruise ships in U. S. waters, except insofar as that Title regulates a vessel’s internal affairs.
Stewart v. Dutra Construction
February 22, 2005
Jones Act: The Super Scoop, a floating platform with a bucket that removes silt from the ocean floor and dumps it onto adjacent scows, was a vessel for purposes of determining seaman status under the Jones Act since the definition of a "vessel" under sections 1 and 3 of the Revised Statutes of 1873 "includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.” Section 3 requires only that a watercraft be “used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water,” not that it be used primarily for that purpose. The Super Scoop was not only “capable of being used” to transport equipment and passengers over water—it was so used. (See the underlying decisions in Stewart v. Dutra Construction (1st Cir. 2003) and Stewart v. Dutra Construction (1st Cir. 2000).)
For links to earlier Supreme Court opinions and to search the database of opinions at this site, see the Supreme Court Admiralty Opinions page.
For a summary of pending maritime legislation and federal regulation, see the Transportation Institute's Pending Legislative Matters page and its report on Pending Regulatory Matters.
The THOMAS site of the Library of Congress and the GPO Access site can be used to track legislation and regulation directly. THOMAS provides a browsable list of pending legislation introduced in the latest Congress and a list of the latest enacted Public Laws. GPO Access provides the Federal Register online where it is possible to search the Proposed Rules section.
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A UNESCO sponsored site that is a comprehensive directory of ocean related and maritime web sites, with an objective of helping scientists and other ocean experts locate relevant information on the Internet.
Hong Kong Maritime Law Association (Associations)
The Hong Kong Maritime Law Association was established in 1978. Its membership includes maritime lawyers, shipowners, P&I clubs and other persons and organisations who have an interest in maritime law. The site includes a detailed page containing links to the relevant maritime ordinances and cases.
| Recent Circuit Court Admiralty Opinions |
Arthur v. Maersk, Inc.
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
January 13, 2006
Suits in Admiralty Act/Procedure: Where Plaintiff seaman amended his complaint to name the United States as defendant in his Jones Act action, although the claim was past the two year Suits in Admiralty Act statute of limitations, the amended claim nonetheless related back to the original complaint under Rule 15 and was not time barred because: (1) the claim in the amended pleading arose out of the “conduct, transaction, or occurrence” set forth in the original pleading; (2) within 120 days of institution of the action, the party to be brought in by amendment had received “such notice of the . . . action that the party will not be prejudiced in maintaining a defense on the merits”; and, (3) within 120 days of institution of the action, the party to be brought in by amendment knew or should have known that, “but for a mistake concerning the identity of the proper party,” the action would have been brought against that party.
Paparo v. M/V ETERNITY
First Circuit Court of Appeals
January 5, 2006
Longshore & Harbor Workers' Act/Procedure: The Court reversed the District Court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the vessel and against the plaintiff longshoreman. The material facts were in dispute and the longshoreman was entitled to have a jury decide whether he had proven his case that the vessel was negligent, causing his injury. Plaintiff contended that the accident occurred when someone on board the ETERNITY prematurely used the ship's winch to haul a line he was holding back in, thus jerking the line out of his grip, causing him to fall. The facts surrounding this allegation were in dispute such that the District Court was in error to have accepted the theory of the vessel's expert witness that the winch would have pulled the line back too slowly and gradually to create the yanking motion that Plaintiff alleged.
Stevedoring Services of America v. Price
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
January 5, 2006
Longshore & Harbor Workers' Act: Although 33 U.S.C. § 928(a) authorizes district courts to award fees “in the successful prosecution” of a Longshore & Harbor Workers' claim, § 928(c) states that a court “may approve an attorney’s fee for the work done before it by the attorney for the claimant.” In view of this language, the district court lacked jurisdiction to award fees to claimant, because the work undertaken in successfully opposing his employer’s certiorari petition to the United States Supreme Court was not work done “before” the district court.
| Recent Supreme Court Admiralty Opinions |
June 6, 2005
Government Regulation: Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U. S. C. §12181 et seq., is applicable to foreign-flag cruise ships in U. S. waters, except insofar as that Title regulates a vessel’s internal affairs.
Stewart v. Dutra Construction
February 22, 2005
Jones Act: The Super Scoop, a floating platform with a bucket that removes silt from the ocean floor and dumps it onto adjacent scows, was a vessel for purposes of determining seaman status under the Jones Act since the definition of a "vessel" under sections 1 and 3 of the Revised Statutes of 1873 "includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.” Section 3 requires only that a watercraft be “used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water,” not that it be used primarily for that purpose. The Super Scoop was not only “capable of being used” to transport equipment and passengers over water—it was so used. (See the underlying decisions in Stewart v. Dutra Construction (1st Cir. 2003) and Stewart v. Dutra Construction (1st Cir. 2000).)
For links to earlier Supreme Court opinions and to search the database of opinions at this site, see the Supreme Court Admiralty Opinions page.
| Pending Maritime Legislation & Regulation |
The THOMAS site of the Library of Congress and the GPO Access site can be used to track legislation and regulation directly. THOMAS provides a browsable list of pending legislation introduced in the latest Congress and a list of the latest enacted Public Laws. GPO Access provides the Federal Register online where it is possible to search the Proposed Rules section.
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