Federal prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of several items made of ivory and of an elephant’s foot that were found last summer aboard M/Y Betty.

A jury found Rolls-Royce guilty of fraud in presenting its Mermaid pod propulsion system to Carnival Cruise Lines for the Queen Mary II.

On Dec. 30, the master and a chief engineer onboard a Greek-owned tanker were killed after a wave hit the ship during rough weather northeast of Bermuda.

A Canadian man was murdered in a harbor on the Caribbean coast of northern Honduras earlier this month.

The owner and crew of M/Y Timoneer are under way with a delivery of school supplies for a school on Easter Island on behalf of YachtAid Global.

Yachting companies and crew have already signed up for the second annual event on July 16 to raise money for Kids In Distress.

Inchcape Shipping Services is to acquire Global Marine Travel, effective 31 May 2010.

BoatUS has launched a Web site for recreational boaters affected by the oil spill.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a Notice to Mariners in reference to electronic navigational charts display of isolated shoal soundings. They reported that ECDIS may not display some isolated shoal depths when operating in “Base” or “Standard” display mode. Route planning and monitoring alarms may not always be activated.

“This is a serious constitutional step which the UK government has not taken lightly, but these measures are essential in order to restore good governance and sound financial management,” British Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant said in a statement.