According to a Feb 15 report from Bloomberg, UAE-based shipping company Gulf Navigation Holding will add two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) by 2013 to its fleet as it expands and launches two new companies. Last month it received a VLCC named Gulf Eyadah, which has started its two-year contract. The holding company's total capacity in five years will be 18 million barrels with nine VLCCs.
Merchant ships and seafarers are increasingly in peril at sea as attacks escalate in the Middle East and the United Nations…
MHWirth, a subsidiary of Norwegian oil services investment firm Akastor, has received an arbitration award issued by a tribunal…
DEME has been awarded two contracts from cable solutions provider Prysmian for the engineering and installation works for…
Hapag-Lloyd and Seaspan Corporation announced plans to retrofit and convert five 10,100 TEU containerships powered by conventional…
Abnormal liner wear and seized or broken piston rings can result in costly consequences.
AST has developed and grown, increasingly providing full-service network solutions, far beyond traditional satellite services.
As the maritime industry transitions to the updated SIRE 2.0 inspection regime from the familiar SIRE VIQ7 framework, operators are bracing themselves for a period of adjustment.
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