National Maritime Services Names Swimmer President
Alan Swimmer has been promoted from his position as director to president of National Maritime Services, a comprehensive vessel arrest custodial service. He will continue to act as president of Maritime Capital Group, a marine finance, insurance and titling company. In his expanded role, Swimmer will have full operating responsibility over National Maritime Services. Swimmer is Toney’s longtime business associate…
Q&A with Coast Guard Acquisitions Master Chief
In the August 2010 edition of the U.S. Q. I heard the Coast Guard is are going to stop building National Security Cutters (NSCs)? A. The Coast Guard plans to build eight NSCs. being negotiated. Q. The Coast Guard’s current fleet of Response Boats-Small (RB-S) is wearing out. plan to replace them? A. Yes, we do. An RB-S replacement project was chartered in January 2010. The current schedule calls for…
Jensen Maritime-Designed Pushboat Delivered
The Jensen Maritime-designed river push boat, the M/V Stephenson II, has been delivered to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for use in Gascondale, MO, in the Corps' Kansas City district. Jensen performed the functional design and production lofting of the ABS Classed, 58-ft, 770-horsepower boat, which will provide operational support for the district's operations and maintenance mission on the lower Missouri River as well as for general construction and mitigation projects.
30 TORO Crew Transfer Capsules Around the Globe
Reflex Marine has sold 30 TORO crew transfer capsules across offshore Asia-Pacific, Europe, North and West Africa, Australia and America. Most of the units are being utilized by major international oil and gas operators, however, the company has also entered the renewables sector, selling four capsules for use on wind turbine installation barges. While Reflex Marine’s range of crew transfer capsules are an accepted and established method of crew transfer in the oil and gas industry…
Thale’s Submarine Distress Beacon for Royal Navy
Thales UK’s highly successful submarine distress beacon has been accepted into service with the Royal Navy (RN). Following a trial period, more than 100 SEEPIRB (submarine-ejected emergency positioning indicating radio beacon) buoys have been accepted into service with all classes of RN submarines, including the new Astute class. The SEEPIRB has been developed for submarines to provide distress alerting and position information via radio transmissions on a satellite-aided tracking frequency.
Viking Introduces Design-Your-Own Lifejackets
Viking Life-Saving Equipment has launched a new product line: design-your-own inflatable SOLAS lifejackets. Made possible by a new, modular design, Viking customers…
Smiths Detection Installation at Port of Providence
Smiths Detection announced the award of a contract for its FirstView early warning chemical threat detection and video management system to be installed at the Port of Providence, R.I.
Port of Hamburg Grows 8%
In the Port of Hamburg a total of 58.6 million tons of seafreight was handled in the first half year 2010. This comes up to a plus of 8.1 per cent compared to the previous year.
Pirates Board Seanergy’s MV Bet Fighter
Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. announced that the MV Bet Fighter, a 1992 built, 173,149 dwt Capesize vessel, was boarded by pirates off Singapore, on August 17, while en route to China.
Seaway Cargo Shipments Up 17% First Half of Season
Cargo shipments through the St. Lawrence Seaway continue to be buoyed by demand for iron ore and steel slabs with an overall increase of 16.6% year-to-date compared to the same period last year.
Jurong Shipyard Chooses AVEVA Marine
AVEVA Group plc (LSE:AVV), providers of engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, announced that Jurong Shipyard…
This Day in Coast Guard History – August 18
1899-Surfman Rasmus S. Midgett of the Gull Shoal Life-Saving Station in North Carolina single-handedly rescued 10 people from the grounded barkentine Priscilla.
This Day in Naval History – August 18
1838 - Exploring Expedition under LT Charles Wilkes embarks on world cruise.
Stolt Tankers Receives Full Refund for Cancelled Newbuildings
Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Oslo Børs: SNI) said its wholly owned subsidiary Stolt Tankers B.V. received a full refund of $84.5 million plus accrued interest, as part of…
Schoolenberg Appointed VP, Wärtsilä Global R&D
Trudy Schoolenberg, PhD (Tech), has been appointed Vice President, Global R&D in Wärtsilä Industrial Operations as of August 15, 2010. Schoolenberg will be responsible for global Research and Development of the Wärtsilä products. Schoolenberg has a successful career in Shell in several leading positions with strategic, operational and technology experience since 1989. Most recently she held the position of General Manager…
Talbert, Toma & Bobillier Join Transocean Board
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) announced that the Board of Directors has named J. Michael Talbert as non-executive Vice Chairman of the Board, Arnaud A.Y.
CMA CGM Group Takes Delivery of Corte Real
CMA CGM Group took delivery this morning, Monday August,16th, in South Korea of the CMA CGM Corte Real (13,830 teu) built by DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering)…
Palfinger Cranes for Offshore Wind Turbines
Palfinger systems supplied a total of 24 cranes for alpha ventus, Germany’s first offshore wind farm. A platform and nacelle crane on each wind turbine make it possible to carry out supply and service work quickly and straightforwardly on site out at sea. Palfinger systems and BESCO, its German sales partner in Cuxhaven, have developed a service handling concept (SHC) for this purpose in cooperation with experts from the wind power industry.
Propulsion Software May Allow Ferry to Begin Service
Officials with the Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division said that changes to software controlling the propeller system on the new Chetzemoka…
Rickmers’ Maersk Edinburgh Maiden Call in Hamburg
The largest Rickmers ship ever to call in the Port of Hamburg arrived at the Burchardkai Terminal on the late evening of Friday, 13 August. The 13,100TEU Maersk Edinburgh, which was christened Pearl Rickmers by Nina Ruge in South Korea on 2 July, was built for the Rickmers Group by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan and is now on a ten-year charter to Maersk Line. In a small ceremony on board, Port Captain Jörg Pollmann presented Capt.
