Pacific Maritime Magazine News Online for May 15, 2015

  Fidley Watch: Useful Idiots

By Chris Philps
Managing Editor 

There is some debate as to whether Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin actually used the term “useful idiots” to refer to communist sympathizers in the US, but there is no doubt that he said, “Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”

That generation is before us now – not to usher us into communism, but to deliver us from the evils of petroleum and its byproducts. Witness the earnest young people in the photo on this page who, as representatives of Greenpeace, a large, multinational conglomerate, scaled an Arctic-bound oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to protest the continued extraction of fossil fuels…  MORE

Friday, May 15, 2015

Port of Seattle to Appeal Terminal 5 Decision

BC Ferries Christens World’s Longest Cable Ferry

POLA Police Chief Pleads Not Guilty to Alleged Scam

Marine Carriers Receive Environmental Award

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By Mark Edward Nero

British Columbia transportation service provider BC Ferries unveiled the name of its newest vessel, Baynes Sound Connector, at a special ceremony at Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards on May 8. The new cable ferry is expected to join the BC Ferries’ fleet on the Buckley Bay – Denman Island route later this summer. (Read full article)

By Mark Edward Nero

The chief of the Port of Los Angeles police department on May 8 pleaded not guilty to federal charges of corruption and tax evasion. (Read full article)

By Mark Edward Nero

Port Metro Vancouver, Canada’s largest seaport, on May 7 said it was honoring 12 shipping and four cruise lines with a Blue Circle Award for 2014.The Blue Circle Awards recognize marine carriers with the highest rate of participation in the port’s EcoAction Program. (Read full article)