California

Port of Oakland to acquire next-generation cold storage facility

The world’s latest next-generation cold storage and logistics facility opened at the US Port of Oakland. Lineage Cool Port Oakland (Cool Port) is a temperature controlled transload and distribution facility aimed to maximize use of the Port’s road, rail, and shipping network to increase the import and export of perishable food products.

US-based Lineage Logistics, LLC (Lineage) and Dreisbach Enterprises (Dreisbach) announced the official opening of the facility, which is set on 25 acres at the...

https://safety4sea.com/port-of-oakland-to-acquire-next-generation-cold-storage-facility/

Navy Issues Final Study Seeking Continued Use of Training Ranges Hawaii, California Ranges

Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Royal New Zealand Navy jump from an MH-53E Sea Dragon, attached to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14, as a part of dive operations during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise off the coast of Southern California on July 13. 2018. US Navy Photo

The next five years of fleet training and testing in the Pacific waters off Hawaii and Southern California might affect marine life but shouldn’t have permanent, lasting harm to marine...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/29/navy-issues-final-study-seeking-continued-use-training-ranges-hawaii-california-ranges

California considers measures to reduce commercial harbor craft emissions

California Air Resources Board (CARB) plans to develop more requirements for Commercial Harbor Craft, in order to reduce emissions from Commercial Harbor Craft operated within Regulated California Waters.

CARB will propose new requirements for stricter in-use and new vessel requirements for both freight-related and passenger vessels. CARB will also:

  • Re-evaluate the feasibility of installing Tier 4 engine technology on in-use vessels;
  • Re-evaluate the feasibility of installing and performance of...

https://safety4sea.com/california-considers-measures-to-reduce-commercial-harbor-craft-emissions/

BOEM requires transit corridors for offshore wind energy areas

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management says it will require vessel transit corridors (shown in light blue) through offshore wind energy leases off New England. BOEM image.

The federal Bureau of Offshore Energy Management is requiring offshore wind energy developers to set aside vessel transit corridors, amid intense discussions with the commercial fishing industry.

In a notice published Friday in the Federal Register, the agency announced it would offer an additional 390,000 acres south of Massachusetts for lease on Dec. 13. That would extend large areas already leased from Block Island, R.I., to south of Martha’s Vineyard.

The BOEM notice includes a new...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/boem-requires-transit-corridors-for-offshore-wind-energy-areas/

Port of San Diego prepares for future sea level rise

The Port of San Diego is preparing for the future sea level rise and has taken practical measures to mitigate this problem. Namely, at the location of a future hotel and convention center in Chula Vista, the Port trucked enough soil to raise the ground level by 14 feet. The fill dirt project started in August and finished last week.

These projects are being constructed under the port’s Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan (CVBMP), which covers one stretch of the 34 miles of the waterfront.

This work...

https://safety4sea.com/port-of-san-diego-prepares-for-future-sea-level-rise/

California vessel emissions rules could get even tougher

The San Francisco Bay ferry Hydrus was designed for Tier 4 performance to meet California's strict air quality rules. Incat Crowther photo.

Air pollution regulators are looking to tighten California’s air emissions rules for commercial vessels, already the strictest in the nation.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced its staff is beginning a new rulemaking process to modify the state’s existing Commercial Harbor Craft Rule.

Now in its implementation phase, the rule makes California the only state in the Union that requires most vessels with older engines – pre-dating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency diesel...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/california-vessel-emissions-rules-could-get-even-tougher/

Edward DeNike, President of SSA Containers Presented with 2018 Connie Award

l to r: Michael DiVirgilio, CII President; Ed DeNike, President of SSA Containers; Mrs. DeNike; Ronald J. Forest, President of Matson Navigation and Sue Coffey, CII Treasurer

Edward DeNike, President of SSA Containers presented with 2018 Connie Award in Long Beach, CA

Long Beach, CA (September 21, 2018) – Edward Anthony DeNike, president of SSA Containers, a division of Carrix, received the 2018 Connie Award presented by the Containerization & Intermodal Institute in Long Beach, CA, on Tuesday,...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/09/21/edward-denike-president-of-ssa-containers-presented-with-2018-connie-award/

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