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[|Steamship Niagara the palace steamer]

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Shipping news!!
[|Matson Navigation Company] Pacific Business News has reported that Matson has added a new service to their company. other than overseas shipping the company has added a rail service for their numerous amounts of containers flowing through port. creating availability for more shipping flow.

Works Cited, APA format Davlantes, N. (1987). Matson adds rail service. Pacific Business News, 25(9), A-A. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/235937692?accountid=10353

in 2004, Matson has recently moved their headquarters in the bay area to Oakland where it brought more employees to work. location is very important to the company because of the economy. the easier Matson headquarters is to find, the better it is for business.

Works Cited. Tate, R. (2004). Real estate deals: Steal of the year, matson navigations move to oaklands 555 city center. San Francisco Business Times, 18(34), S38-S38. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/227686286?accountid=10353

The Costa Cruze Lines: Costa Concordia
Their is a further investigation pertaining to the Concordia disaster that happened in the beginning of the year. Instead of having crew members of the Concordia ship investigating the crash, the company has brought in other members of the Costa fleet to help with the investigation. The seven investigators are company officials who are looking deeper into why their was a delay in the process of evacuation. This move by the company to further the investigation came into effect when they found the 25th dead body, a little girl. While the team is still searching for the last seven people missing, everyone is still questioning the captains poor judgement in ship safety.

Russian passengers onboard the Costa Concordia have finally began to receive compensations from the sinking. The company is willing to reimburse as much as 1500-3500 euros per passenger. Passengers are waiting on the request by Costa for more euros because of the travel expense and the loss of personal items before and after the wreck. These backlashes by the money-hungry passengers caused the operator of Costa Cruz lines to grant 11,000 euros to each passenger. In the end it is up to the passenger to ether take the money granted to them of fight for more money in court.

Works Cited

Interfax : Ukraine Business Daily (2012, February 22). WORLD; RUSSIANS FROM COSTA CONCORDIA START GETTING COMPENSATIONS. Interfax : Ukraine Business Daily, p. n/a. Retrieved March 1, 2012, from the ABI/INFORM Complete database. Meichtry, S. (2012, February 22). Italian Investigators Expand Cruise-Ship Sinking Probe. Wall Street Journal, p. n/a. Retrieved March 1, 2012, from the ABI/INFORM Complete database.

==Foss Maritime== FOSS became founded in 1889 by Thea Foss. The company's birth of origin was in Tacoma, Washington where Thea started out buying a single rowboat for five dollars and painting it white with green trim. She sold and rented out boats to appealing crowds of fishermen for 50 cents a day. Thea tripled her prophet and then sold it for fifteen dollars. Her easy prophet sales boosted her business confidence to begin a full round tugboat company. Her signature styling of a tugboat was having white coating with a green trim around the skirt. This gave the Foss family the finances they needed to propel into a functioning business. During this point of time, they used many of their rowboats for ferrying purposes. In 1904, their family owned name became transformed into the Foss Launch and Tow Co. Today Foss is one of the top maritime company's known on the west coast. They continue to revolutionize maritime business with their green innovative ideas.

Company History
When the The Foss Co. actually transformed from a family rowboat business to a tug boat business their possibilities became endless. In the early 20th century the Foss Company had numerous amounts of people renting out their boats for certain types of jobs. Recreationally, Foss's rowboats became the top choice for the people of Washington who wanted to go fishing or hunting. Since the logging business was one of the top jobs in Tacoma's plush area, Foss got in contract with many logging companies. Since the beginning, Foss Co. had been suiting to the peoples needs. When Foss got into the logging business they constructed a tug that towed logs down rivers such as the Tacoma River. Foss became an honor to the America when they offered service to the United States Marines. In 1914, during the First World War Foss was called into service by the United States to assist and aid distressed vessels in and out of port. Foss Co. serviced many battleships by towing them out into the sea from port. After the war, Foss finacially took interest into a tugging company in Washington and became more popular then they already had. The Foss family continued to run and develop the family business after Thea's death in 1927. In 1987, the company Saltchuk Resources Inc. bought Foss maritime. The family owned company is still an independent firm but it is owned and ran by Saltchuk. The meaning of Saltchuk is "a language developed by traders in the Pacific Northwest". Saltchuk manages and operates in the Pacific Rim, Europe, South America, Latin America, Alaska, the Russian Far East, The United States, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, West Coast ports, and Colombia and Snake river systems. Since Saltchuk bought Foss Maritime, the company has switched from a little business to an internationally operated business

EARLY VESSELS
Foss Maritime started out only with rowboats with heir signature white and green trim paint. sooner than later Foss started expanding their venue of work. They saw what the people of Washington wanted, so they expanded to developing towing tugs. Some of their first powered vessels were built by the hands of the Foss family itself. Her first power vessel was the St. Patrick, a steamer that operated in the Commencement Bay. The steamer ran aground, and fully rebuilt by Thea’s carpenter husband. The boat was then sold for another steamer. Their second powered vessel was called the, Lizzie A. This was one of the worst boats the FOSS family ever owned and quickly sold the unreliable vessel for $500. One of the most important ships this is still seen today in the Puget Sound area is the vessel called the Hope. This was a Naphtha-fueled vessel that solely operated rafting giant Douglas Fir logs in the sound area.

OTHER
Thea the founder of FOSS was the inspiration of a TV show called Tugboat Annie.

Bay Area
In 1993, Foss Maritime and the San Francisco Bay Area. On September 1, 1993, It was decided that Foss Maritime would be providing tug services in the San Francisco Bay Area. The agreement with the Bay Area and Foss Maritime was that they would have to maintain a pool of vessels and barges at ready for Tug/Barge escort, docking, and assist services. Foss Maritime in the Bay Area have the name Foss-SeaRiver, providing future tanker support. Today Foss provides three large conventional SeaRiver tugs and one Foss cyclodial tractor tug. The Foss SeaRiver Tug office is located at 150A West Industrial Way, Benicia, CA 94510-1016

FAMILY
Thea was not alone in her business, FOSS is a family ran business; She had three sons, Arthur, Waddell, and Henry Foss to help her out with the production and process of becoming a fully equipped business.

CURRENT OFFICERS
Paul Stevens, Chairman and CEO Gary C. Faber, President and COO Craig Campbell, VP Information Technology Services

Hybrid Technology
In the recent times, the FOSS Maritime has been working on cutting down on their NOx and carbon dioxide emissions. Foss Maritime constructed a hybrid tug called the Caroline Dorothy, to relieve some of the atmospheric pollution. Their Hybrid craft cuts down as much as 44% of harmful emissions dispersed into the atmosphere. The boat only idles for only 7% of the time. The hybrid tugboat uses their diesel power when they are at sail and when they are anchored in the bay they recharge their hybrid batteries, reducing their fuel consumption. During the other times the Hybrid Tug is powered by a battery. The boat has both hybrid and diesel power working on the same drive shaft. This hybrid craft operates on two different fuel systems. When the tug needs to use power, it switches to diesel power, while it is on diesel power the power generated by the propeller charges the hybrid side of the craft.

Other New Developments
Foss Maritime developed and built an ASD Z-Drive and Voith Schneider Propulsion cyclodial tractor tugs. These tugs can control the worlds largest tankers and freighters known today.

Awards
In 2008, Foss Maritime was awarded by the United States Coast Guard for its most prestigious environmental honor fro developing a low-emission hybrid tugboat called the 'Green Dolphin'. The award was the William M. Benkert 'gold' award because of their piece of mind on the environment. Gary Faber, the president of Foss Maritime was in San Diego, California to receive the Award from the Coast Guard's commandant Thad Allen. Earlier in June 2008 Foss won the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Excellence Award also for their green tug. Foss also got a Commendation-Environmental Award from BP Shipping and an honorable mention for the 2008 port of Seattle Environmental Business of the year award. These awards have aspired Foss to keep u with their up-comming green technology. Recently The company has been working on bringing a sister ship hybrid tug into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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