WISTA Norway announced that President of YoungShip International, Birgit Liodden, is the winner of the WISTA LeaderShip Award 2012. She receives the award as recognition of her dedicated efforts to raise the profile of the maritime industry and attract more female talents to the business. The award
Bergen Group Offshore has, through its subsidiary Bergen Group Rosenberg AS, been awarded the contract for the Hook-up of ConocoPhillips’ new Ekofisk 2/4L platform. The contract value for the project is about NOK 175 million, and will generate activity during 2012 and 2013. In 2009 Bergen Group Rose
On behalf of the global cruise industry, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and the European Cruise Council today announced that the cruise industry has adopted three new safety policies which are to be implemented with immediate effect. The announcement was made by Chairman of the Europe
The Danish Maritime Authority is still in the lead of the development of the navigation concept of the future, e-Navigation. Now, the framework is no longer called by EfficienSea, but ACCSEAS. With the conclusion of the EfficienSea project in early 2012, one could fear that the work on e-Navigation
The recently established G6 Alliance has added direct service Gothenburg, Sweden to its weekly Far East/Europe port rotation with the first vessel call of the APL Finland at APM Terminals Gothenburg, the busiest container facility in Scandinavia. The G6 Alliance was created in December 2011 through
Subsea 7 has exercised an option to extend the contract on the construction vessel Skandi Seven with 1 year from 31st of March 2013. DOF Subsea, subsidiary of DOF ASA, has previous announced that Subsea 7 has fixed the vessel Skandi Skansen for a period of 100-200 days per year over the next 4 years
As part of Faroe Maritime Technic’s expansion plans the Company announced the appointment of Oil Conveyer Limited (OCL) as partner and distributor for the UK and Ireland. OCL will be working alongside its sister company Pumpseal, a long established and experienced supplier of pumps, motors and oil w
Shipping lines calling at Southampton’s container terminal are benefitting from the terminal’s continued drive on productivity as vessels turnaround times reduce. The South Coast terminal set its best ever vessel turnaround performance when it handled the maiden call of the largest ship in the Hyund
Stork Technical Services Subsea, the subsea division of the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, has invested more than £2 million (approx USD 3.3 mln) in a new specialist dive intervention craft (IC) and full
ERRIA, a shipping company specialized in providing administrative ship management, announced that it has sold and transferred vessel named Erria IDA in Augusta, Sicily on April 23, to the Uni-Tankers shipping line. Erria IDA is the fourth of nine vessels that the company is planning to sell. MT Erri
iCargo, the pan-European cargo and logistics project part funded by the EU, has formally launched its three and a half year framework programme. The project, formally titled “Intelligent Cargo in Efficient and Sustainable Global Logistics Operations” includes research, development, demonstration and
Maersk Drilling has signed a new contract with Centrica Energi at a value of at least USD 60 million. With this contract the company’s rig capacity in Norway is sold out until the second quarter of 2014. The demand for ultra harsh environment rigs keeps growing while rig supply remains tight. The co
DOF and Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited (Maersk) have agreed a 3 year extension of the contract for Skandi Caledonia. Maersk had, in accordance with the charterparty for the vessel, an option to extend the contract period with one year from 1st October 2012. This one yearly option has now been repla
Wärtsilä Hamworthy, the global leader in complete lifecycle power solutions and integrated systems for the marine markets, today announced an agreement with Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA, the global rolling cargo operator, to retrofit their vessel MV Tamesis with a Krystallon Exhaust Gas Cleaning System (EGC
