GSL Fixes Post-Panamax Duo with MSC
Global Ship Lease (GSL), a holding company and containership charter owner, has signed five-year charters with Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for two Post…
Piedmont Awards EPC Gig to Matrix
Oklahoma-based Matrix Service Company has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Piedmont Natural Gas LNG facility in North…
DNVGL: New Mooring Line Solution for Offshore Ops
DNV GL has developed a solution that is designed to reduce the risk of offshore floating vessel mooring line failure going undetected by replacing physical sensors…
Wärtsila: Earns Dual BWMS USCG Approval
Wärtsilä’s Aquarius UV Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) was granted US Coastguard (USCG) Type Approval. With the company’s other BWMS technology, the Wärtsilä Aquarius EC, already Type Approved by USCG, Wärtsilä says it becomes the first manufacturer able to offer two USCG Type Approved BWMS technologies.The Wärtsilä Aquarius UV (Ultra-Violet) technology utilizes proven filtration and UV irradiation, while maintaining a high degree of safety and operability.
Pompeo Warns About Russia, China Activities in Arctic
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Interview: Dan Skjeldam, CEO, Hurtigruten
Building on its 125-year heritage, Norwegian shipowner Hurtigruten has become a leader in exploration travel offering voyages to more than 200 unique destinations in more than 30 countries ranging across the globe from the Arctic to the Antarctic and including cruises in Norway, Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland, Western Europe, and the Americas. In an interview with Maritime Reporter and Engineering News…
NBBB Delivers First Hybrid Tug
The Boat builders in Freeland, Washington, Nichols Brothers Boat Builders (NBBB) has successfully trialed and delivered Baydelta Maritime’s, new 100’ x 40’ Delta…
Canada Cuts Retaliatory Tariffs on Boats
The Canadian government has removed the 10 percent retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-built recreational boats that resulted from President Trump’s 10 percent tariff on…
Hapag-Lloyd Names "Hanseatic nature" in Hamburg
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises presented the Hanseatic nature for the first time in Hamburg on Saturday (May 04, 2019).The provider of adventure and classic cruising with luxury voyages to Polar Regions…
Ekmann Named CEO of Uni-Tankers
Tanker ship operator Uni-Tankers, part of the USTC group, has appointed Per Ekmann as its new CEO. “I’m both happy and proud to have the opportunity to lead the…
Two Greek Shippers Fined for Dumping Oil in Texas Ports
Two Greek shipping companies have been fined $4 million in a U.S. plea deal for not reporting 2017 illegal oil discharges by a tanker at some Texas ports.“Two Greek shipping companies…
Halifax Assembles HMCS Margaret Brooke
The Royal Canadian Navy's second Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), the future HMCS Margaret Brooke, is now structurally assembled at Irving Shipbuilding's Halifax Shipyard.On Friday…
LSCT Welcomes MSC Trieste
With the arrival of the MSC Trieste, Contship’s La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) greeted the maiden voyage of the “revised” Dragon/AE20 service from Asia operated by 2M joint partners…
Marseille Fos Names MD
Former port of Le Havre managing director Hervé Martel has started work as interim managing director of the Marseille Fos port authority following his nomination by the French transport minister.
Award for HII's Digital Shipbuilding Transformation
America's largest military shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division has been named a recipient of a 2019 CIO 100 Award…
TCR Expands Intermodal Connections
Contship Italia Group confirms its intermodal vocation, both for continental and maritime cargo – and for the latter, a collaboration between Terminal Container…
Ocean Yield Takes Delivery of New Ship
Norway-based ship owning company Ocean Yield ASA announced that it has taken delivery of the very large crude carrier (VLCC) "Nissos Rhenia".The tanker was delivered…
Global LNG Imports Up in Q1 by 11%
Despite the liquefied natural gas (LNG) demand in the first quarter of 2019 being negatively impacted by warmer than usual weather in the Northern Hemisphere winter…
DryShips Acquires Newcastlemax Drybulker
Greece-based dry bulk shipping company DryShips Inc announced that it has agreed to acquire from an entity that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by its Chairman and CEO…
Liberia Improves Oil Spill Preparedness
Increased commercial and oil activity in Liberia's territorial waters has seen the number of tankers and other ships supporting the oil activities, rise significantly.These…
