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Jul 15, 2009
StatoilHydro and the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) are inquiring into a death on Oseberg B on May 7. StatoilHydro has received the PSA’s investigation report into the North Sea incident,
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Jul 15, 2009
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has announced a restructuring of its Florence, SC manufacturing operations. By the end of 2009, the manufacture of gantry cutting machines,
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Jul 15, 2009
StatoilHydro hopes to recover seven million barrels of oil and a billion standard cu. m. of associated gas from Vega South. Located in the northern North Sea, this
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Jul 15, 2009
Sam Shipping has recently launched the comprehensive freight portal www.FreightMarket.com. The portal, designed to obtain quotes for shipments between South America to Asia,
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Jul 15, 2009
More than 90 personnel from the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) have completed a comprehensive Austal vessel training program in preparation for the delivery
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Jul 15, 2009
In reaction to the increasing commuter traffic on the Bosporus, the municipal ferry enterprise IDO in Istanbul has commissioned four doubleended ferries with two Voith Schneider Propellers each.
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Jul 15, 2009
SPAR’s cost estimating models have recently been upgraded in an effort to provide complete life cycle cost estimates. Mono-hull, trimaran and catamaran hull forms all have separate cost models.
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Jul 15, 2009
The First International Conferences on Light Weight Marine Structures will be held September 7-8, 2009 in Glasgow, UK. Designers, manufacturers, marine scientists,
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Jul 15, 2009
Blue Ocean Wireless (BOW), a company delivering GSM communication capability for the merchant maritime sector, has completed full FleetBroadband (“FBB”) testing.
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Jul 15, 2009
Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (“TEN”) has announced a three-year time charter with profit sharing for the 2007-built double-hull suezmax tanker Arctic. The charter,
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Jul 15, 2009
According to Reuters, Israeli shipping firm Zim, a unit of holding company Israel Corp., has received the first of 12 vessels it had ordered to meet an anticipated
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Jul 15, 2009
Somali pirates have recently hijacked an Indian ship and used it to launch an unsuccessful attack on a Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, according to VOA News.
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Jul 15, 2009
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, federal prosecutors told a judge that the pilot of the container ship that struck the Bay Bridge in November 2007 ignored basic safety precautions,
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Jul 15, 2009
Modern electronic navigation systems have the potential to improve vessel navigation safety and ruce accidents. The potential of these new systems is unlikely to be realiz,
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Jul 15, 2009
China's largest private shipbuilder has signed this year’s biggest deal in terms of dead weight tons, according to the company. Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries
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Jul 15, 2009
Wavespec hopes to expand its capability to deliver a range of products for the offshore industry – particularly dynamic positioning (DP) vessels – through a managerial
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Jul 15, 2009
Shell has started production at its multi-field Parque das Conchas project 110 km off Brazil's southeast coast, where heavy oil resources lie beneath waters nearly two km deep in the Campos Basin.
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Jul 15, 2009
The Petra Galaxy, designed by Conan Wu and Asscoiates, is the latest vessel to join the fleet of Perdana Venus Ltd. of the Marshall Islands. The 75-by-20m maintenance/work
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Jul 15, 2009
On July 14, 2009, Yan Yanovsky, Managing Director and Member of the Boards of Directors of United Industrial Corporation (OPK) and B.T. Ahn, Executive vice-president
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