Welcome Wednesday, a double dose!

We were on vacation last week. No, not the folks behind the scenes helping make Amver work. Just some of us in the front office. Because we were out you may have missed the ships that enrolled. Have no fear, we've got the entire list here. Without further delay we bring you the vessels that enrolled in Amver in the last two weeks!

• PACIFIC CREATION
• NIKOS N
• MSC UKRAINE
• COSTANZA
• ISLAND SPLEDOR
• DORIS
• GOOD PRECEDENT
• SVINOY
• HANJIN ITALY
• SOLAR AFRICA
• BUNGA LILAC
• TOULOUSE
• LESTER POLLACK
• POS AMAZONIT
• INLAND SEAS
• HOS NORTH STAR
• GLENN EDWARDS
• MR. SAM
• EAGLE KINABALU
• MEGACORE PHILOTHEA
• STOLT TSUBAKI
• VOGE CHALLENGER
• MOMENTUM SCAN
• LOWLANDS SERENITY
• SCF PIONEER
• CHANG HANG XING YUN
• THOR GLORY
• ROYAL INNOVATION
• UNION DEDE
• FSL HAMBURG
• PHOENIX ADMIRAL
• WARRIOR
• BRANDYWINE
• MORNING GLORY 5
• GENMAR SPARTIATE
• GUNUNG DEMPO
• CORCOVADO
• JIA FOISON
• CITY OF ROTTERDAM
• GLOBAL STANDARD
• DIAMANTINA
• HANJIN CONSTANTZA
• SARA THERESA
• TANTA T.
• SIGNE BULKER
• KANG YU
• KM YOKOHAMA
• LASCAUX
• PAOLA BOTTIGLIERI
• CFL PERFECT
• BESS
• BUNGA BEGONIA
• CHAPTER GENTA
• SINAR KAPUAS
• SUPRAMAX VIVI
• PEACE CHINA
• QUEEN BEE
• SINAR KUTAI
• NCC HUDA
• THERESA TIGA
• EXPRESS BRASIL
• CONTANTIN S
• BULK SPAIN
• ANASTASIA K
• JBU OSLO
• DONGBANG GIANT NO. 2
• GLOBAL PHOENIX
• PROSPEROUS
• CHALLENGE PROCYON
• PROWLER
• SKS DONGGANG
• PEGGY JO
• BRITOIL 20
• PRISCO ELENA
• STENA CARRON
• TYLER STEPHEN
• C-LEADER
• CONCORDIA
• SULTAN
• HOS SHOOTING STAR
• FRATERNITY
• OCEAN JUPITER
• ANEMOS
• DORIAN SCHULTE
• FRONTIER ISLAND

Have you enrolled? If not, there's still time! Sign up today and become part of the largest voluntary search and rescue system in the world!

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National Maritime Day Recognizes US Amver participants

One year after the Gulf oil spill, and amid daily reports of piracy and needless accidents at sea, the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA) will be offering a seminar “Environmental Intelligence in Shipping:  Safety at Sea, featuring an emergency preparedness & response regulatory update, as well as a panel on piracy, STCW update, and terminal access for seafarers.  The seminar will take place on May 23rd  at the National Press Club in Washington DC commencing at 3:00pm.  The seminar is intended to commemorate National Maritime Day, which is held on May 22nd to honor merchant mariners.


Panelists include (to date): VADM Brian Salerno, USCG; Clay Maitland, International Registries Inc. (Marshall Islands), RADM Robert North (Ret.), North Star Maritime; Jonathan Waldron, Blank Rome LLP; Greg DeMarco, ExxonMobil; the Rev. Mary Davisson, Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center; the Rev. Canon James Von Dreele, Seamen’s Church Institute-Philadelphia; Mauricio Garrido, American Salvage Association.

“NAMEPA designed this seminar to be both informative and participatory so that the risk of an event such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill recurring can be reduced” stated NAMEPA Chairman Clay Maitland.  “We must also look at seafarer welfare.  Piracy is on the rise.  Lifeboat safety hook failures are on the rise.  Seafarer fatigue is on the rise.  The seminar will explore strategies and realities to mitigate future risks.”

The cost to attend the seminar is $50 for NAMEPA members ($75 for non-members. Please contact Rose Lambert for reservations or call +203 255 4686.  Admittance is by reservation only and is limited.

The seminar will be followed immediately by the National Maritime Day Dinner and Amver Awards where 77 shipping companies will be recognized.  The honored guest will be Congressman Frank LoBiondo.  Request more information from Rose Lambert .

99 years ago

99 years ago Titanic sank in the North Atlantic. It's because of this disaster that we have SOLAS Convention, The International Ice Patrol and yes, Amver.

We taped this last year but felt it was worth revisiting. Take a moment today and think about the lives lost in the cold Atlantic.



Can't see the video? Click here.

Welcome Wednesday!

Have your ships enrolled in Amver? Perhaps not. Maybe you have an in-house vessel tracking system. If your ships automatically report to your operations department did you know we may have a solution that will allow your vessel reports to automatically come to Amver? We receive many of our reports that way. We could be receiving yours too.

In the meantime please help us welcome the newest 56 members of the Amver family.

•          STELLA ANNABEL          
•          CMA CGM COLUMBA         
•          TARKA                   
•          SANKO NATURE            
•          ALICE MORAN             
•          DANTE                   
•          OITA MARU               
•          GAS COBIA               
•          VALLE DI SIVIGLIA       
•          LA CHEVAL               
•          MICHELE A. DEFELICE II  
•          GENCO LANGUEDOC         
•          SPAR HYDRA              
•          L/B CAITLIN             
•          PACIFIC EXPLORER        
•          RBD CARLO GUALDI        
•          PORT ELISABETH          
•          ORLEANS                 
•          AMY CHOUEST             
•          COURIER                 
•          SHEILA MORAN            
•          PRESIDENT TIDE          
•          C-LEGACY                
•          MAERSK WINNIPEG         
•          C-CHALLENGER            
•          SKANDI EMERALD          
•          MARCAROLINA             
•          STRANDJA                
•          C-HERO                  
•          ALEXANDRA               
•          SUPERIOR SERVICE        
•          CALLAIS SEARCHER        
•          ICDAS-09                
•          PACIFIC TRACKER         
•          SEACOR VENTURE          
•          CAPE EGMONT             
•          OVERSEAS TAMPA          
•          CELENA CHOUEST          
•          BULK CHINA              
•          KL BROFJORD             
•          PACIFIC VIKING          
•          AYYILDIZ 7              
•          TENMYO MARU             
•          ERIE SERVICE            
•          CALLAIS NAVIGATOR       
•          RITA MAERSK             
•          CAPE AMANDA             
•          TORM AMALIE             
•          GOLDEN ZHOUSHAN         
•          ALUSHTA                 
•          MS. YVONNE              
•          IMPERIUS                
•          FRENCH BROAD RIVER      
•          NINE EAGLE                      
•          KING FRASER             
•          DELAWARE RESPONDER  

 If you're interested in having one of our technical specialists contact you send us an email.

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Headed to the Arctic Shipping Summit?

Mr. Benjamin Strong, from Amver, will be at the Arctic Shipping Summit in Helsinki, Finland today through Friday April 15th. If you're attending the event be sure to stop by and say hello.

There may even be an opportunity to participate in a recording of the Quarterdeck, Amver's podcast. See you in Finland!

Cross roads of America

What's one of the best places to share the Amver story? The cross roads of America, Time Square! Last week the Amver team headed uptown and ended up on a jumbotron billboard promoting safety at sea. If you can make it here you can make it anywhere!

 

Welcome Wednesday!

51 ships enrolled in Amver in the last week. Between sharing the Amver story through our Podcast to attending the Connecticut Maritime Association Shipping 2011 exhibition we've certainly been out shaking hands and pressing the flesh raising Amver awareness. That awareness converted to vessels enrolling. Will you help us welcome the newest members?

• HYUNDAI NEW YORK
• VIENNA WOOD N
• WESTERN CARRIER
• MINERAL HAIKU
• MAHARSHI VISHWAMITRA
• ACAMAR
• STAR LADY
• TONSBERG
• MATSUSHIMA BAY
• TORDIS KNUTSEN
• PASCALE KNUTSEN
• LIV KNUTSEN
• VIGDIS KNUTSEN
• TOVE KNUTSEN
• HANNE KNUTSEN
• LOUISE KNUTSEN
• SIRI KNUTSEN
• ELI KNUTSEN
• BODIL KNUTSEN
• GIJON KNUTSEN
• ACAMAR
• JORUNN KNUTSEN
• NEW VANGUARD
• MY FAIR LADY
• GRAND
• NANCY KNUTSEN
• OCEAN GEM
• SOUTHERN CROSS DREAM
• COSCO PRINCE RUPERT
• DESH SURAKSHA
• PARNON
• BIRGIT KNUTSEN
• SARONIC BAY
•  JAG RISHI
•  PIONEER KNUTSEN
•  ORIENTAL DRAGON
• CIELO DI DUBLINO
• VALE BRASILS
• VILAMOURA
• STENA PRESIDENT
• COSMIC 18
• ELEFTHERIA
• CHARLOTTE SELMER
• DELTA PRIDE
• CROSBY COURAGE
• MICLYN ENDURANCE
• SEACOR DAVIS
• BLUE TOPAZ
• ZOUZOU
• AMARYLIS
• UNITED EMBLEM

Look for Amver on the road in Helsinki, Finland at the Arctic Shipping Summit next week as well!

By the way, those two entries that say ACAMAR are two different ships. Same name, different IMO number.

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1,000,000

On Wednesday over 1,000,000 people visited the Amver website.



Thank You!







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