VSE Awarded Navy Contract
VSE announced that its Fleet Maintenance Division has been awarded a contract by the Fleet Industrial Supply Center Philadelphia to support the Naval Sea Systems…
Rolls-Royce Appoints New President for Naval Marine Inc.
Rolls-Royce announced the appointment of Patrick Marolda as president of Rolls-Royce Naval Marine Inc. effective immediately. In this role, Marolda will develop…
World Tankers Wins Lloyd’s Register BWMP
Singapore-based World Tankers Management is the first tanker operator in Singapore to have its fleet certified under Lloyd's Register's new BWMP operational notation for ballast water management.
Schat-Harding Launches Miami Service Center
Schat-Harding has opened a new service and sales center in Miami. Focussed initially on improving service to the cruise industry, it will also coordinate sales and…
Coast Guard Seeks New Members For TSAC
The Coast Guard is seeking applications for membership on Towing Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC). TSAC provides advice and makes recommendations to tth eDepartment…
Gulf Africa Announces New Appointments
Gulf Africa Line (GAL) has appointed Biehl & Company as general liner agents in the USA effective March 1, 2002. GAL’s pricing and line management will be in Houston…
ILO Protocol on Seafarers' Conditions Sets International Legal Precedent
The International Labor Organization (ILO) campaign for minimum standards at work for seafarers has received an important boost with the forthcoming entry into force…
Kvarerner Gets Norsk Hydro Contract
Norsk Hydro has awarded Kvaerner a contract worth $39 million to upgrade gas compression capacity on the Oseberg C platform in the Norwegian North Sea. This assignment covers engineering…
USCG Issues NPRM
The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) relating to servicing intervals for inflatable liferafts and inflatable buoyant apparatus…
BASS Prepares Agenda For Sea Japan
BASS will be exhibiting at the Sea Japan exhibition on April 10-12 in Tokyo, Japan. Jointly organized by CMP Japan Co., Ltd and The Seatrade Organization, Sea Japan…
Technip-Coflexip Wins Gas Plant Expansion Project
TECHNIP-COFLEXIP has been awarded, by Saudi Arabian Oil Company SAUDI ARAMCO, for the expansion of the Berri gas plant to handle additional output of sour gas from the Qatif field…
Xantic BV Sells Xantic MPC
Effective January 1, 2002, Xantic MPC (former SpecTec MPC) was sold to the management backed by a group of investors. The new owners are: Øystein Moan, CEO Visma ASA…
MES Completes the World’s Largest Diesel Engine
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) has completed the world’s largest class diesel engine (MITSUI-MAN B&W 1198MC type: 69,920kW) at its Tamano Works…
Karlstad Named Director of Sales at SIS
Star Information Systems (SIS), a world provider of integrated fleet management software, has appointed Martin Karlstad as the new Director of Sales of SIS Oslo, effective immediately.
Daewoo Wins LNG Ship Order
While European leaders continue to disparage the business practices of Far East shipbuilders, particularly those in South Korea, based on alleged subsidy use and abuse…
CSC Wins $30M Navy Contract
Computer Sciences Corporation won a contract with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport to provide software engineering support for the Navy…
Nominees For CITIS 2002 Awards Announced
Providers in the communications and IT in shipping sector have been short-listed for innovation honors in the CITIS 2002 Awards. Winners will be announced at a gala…
Cummins Power Fast Ferries for Hong Kong
Marinteknik Shipbuilders (S) Pte Ltd. established a construction yard in Singapore in 1984. The Yard has built over 30 vessels, with speeds ranging from 18 to 50 knots…
Germanischer Lloyd Reorganizes Operations
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has restructured its business operations, dividing its two main operating areas into maritime services and industrial services. In a press meeting in Hamburg on March 4…
Oregonian Raises New Questions
An independent review conducted and reported today by the Oregonian concludes that the government’s economic justifications for a controversial proposal to dredge the Columbia River are deeply flawed.
