Cape Bulkers News

N.E.I. Treatment Systems receives its fifth BWTS type approval certificate from the netherlands, issued with a treatment rated capacity of 6,500 cubic meters per hour. N.E.I. Treatment Systems announced today that the Netherlands has issued a Type Approval Certificate for the Company’s Venturi Oxygen Stripping™ (VOS) Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS) with a Treatment Rated Capacity (TRC) of 6,500 cubic meters per hour (m3/hr). The Netherlands is N.E.I.’s fifth Type Approval Certificate, adding to Certificates previously received from Panama, Malta, Marshall Islands, and Liberia. The Netherlands Type Approval was issued in July 2011 following the successful shipboard installation and commissioning of high-capacity VOS BWT systems aboard large Bulk Carriers and Tanker vessels.

Seabulk Systems has opened a new office in Montreal to handle transhipment opportunities on the U.S. and Canadian East Coast. A new-patented Capesize vessel unloader (SCU) will be used to unload Cape bulkers and a unique 10,000dwt self-unloader will be used for loading into Panamax/Cape ships. Captain John D. Pace has been appointed vice president, Marine Operations to manage Seabulk's Montreal operations. Captain Pace was involved in various aspects of self-unloading bulk carrier operations for more than 20 years at Canada Steamship Lines, most recently as vice president, Fleet Management.

Seaarland Shipping Management has set up a commercial office in Singapore and made a strategic move into both the large dry bulk and suezmax tanker sectors. The new Singapore company, Seaarland Management Services Singapore, will manage the commercial business for four 115,000 dwt mini-cape bulkers ordered by Seaarland last week from China's New Times Shipyard, and spearhead expansion for the group into Asia. At the same time Seaarland has taken a suezmax tanker on a five year time charter as a preliminary to extending its existing aframax and product tanker fleet into the suezmax market.