Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, has announced reaching 30,000 active FleetBroadband™ terminals in service. This milestone was reached with the installation of a FleetBroadband 500™ on Olympic Future, a Greek-flagged crude oil tanker, by Inmarsat’s d
During this year’s traditional and well attended “Heering Party” in Rotterdam on Wednesday June 6th, KOTUG performed the official and spectacular launch ceremony of the RT Adriaan into the E-KOTUG. The Stook place by Mrs Alexandra van Huffelen, vice-mayor for Sustainability of the City of Rotterdam.
Affiliates of Drew Marine have reached a definitive agreement with Chemring Group PLC to acquire Chemring’s maritime interests for a cash consideration of 32 million pounds, subject to standard closing adjustments. Under Drew Marine’s ownership, the business will be named Drew Marine Signal and Safe
On June 6 United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) applauded the French shipping service, Bureau Veritas, for pledging to end its certification of Iranian shipping vessels, specifically those of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (“IRISL”) and the National Iranian Tanker Company (“NITC”). UANI co
On 24 May 2012, the Danish Parliament unanimously adopted an act the purpose of which is to clarify the new distribution of responsibilities and to create good framework conditions for cooperation. The act entered into force on 1 June 2012. When the Government was formed, the maritime training progr
Atlantic Offshore’s oldest PSV is now sold and delivered to new owners. The vessel will leave the offshore supply market and enter the windmill support market. It was sold slightly above book value. Atlantic Offshore, previously known as Sartor Offshore AS was established in 2008. The company acquir
A few days after Aggelikousis Group’s US$1.25 billion credit facility with six banks for the financing of nine LNG carriers was made public, delegates of a shipbuilding conference held during the fourth day of this year’s Posidonia Exhibition heard that increasing defaults on existing financing agre
InterManager, the international trade association for the ship management industry, has boosted its membership with several new members joining its ranks during the first quarter of this year. Full members joining include ship management company Nigeria LNG and crew manager Nedcon. They are joined b
After 16 years of experience in providing complete electrical packages to the maritime and ship-building industry, Alewijnse RETEC Romania has developed a dedicated Service Department in order to solve any failures of the on-board electrical systems, 24 hours a day/7 days a week, anywhere in the wor
Chelsea Technologies Group held demonstration of the new FastOcean System in Baltimore Harbor, the Group announced today. The participants took part in the deployment of the FastOcean Profiling System from the University of Maryland’s unique 155’ Mobile Test Platform. They also tried out the instrum
Yesterday morning, around 11.00 hour, the ‘Maersk Norwich’ entered the port of Rotterdam carrying a dead whale on its bulb. It is not known yet what type of whale it is and where the vessel has picked it up. The length is approx. 12 metres. The container vessel is 120 metres long and able to [&helli
Allseas Marine S.A. was presented with Maritime Labour Statements of Compliance by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) for the vessels “Calm Seas”, “Kind Seas” and “Pearl Seas”. The certificates were presented to Michael Bodouroglou, Managing Director of the Allseas Marine by Oliver Darley, Vice President and G
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces initial peak gross oil production rates from the Athena field of 22,000 barrels of oil per day (“bopd”) (4,950 bopd net to Ithaca) as metered into the BW Athena’s storage tanks. Oil export operations have commenced. The flow from each of the four oil production wells is
In collaboration with VOKA (Antwerp-Waasland chamber of commerce) the Antwerp port community organised a mission to the Ukrainian cities of Kiev and Odessa. Odessa Port Authority presented current developments in its port and gave details about planned infrastructure projects. A collaboration agreem
