The Port of Kiel has gained container wayport status by being added to the liner service network of Gothenburg-based shipping company TransAtlantic. With immediate effect, ships serving on the company’s Bothnia Line between Kerni/Oulu in Finland and Zeebrugge/Antwerp in Belgium are making a weekly s
Inmarsat, a world leader in global mobile satellite communications, has selected Metaswitch to expand and enrich its FleetBroadband maritime communications service, the first maritime communications service to provide cost-effective broadband data and voice, simultaneously, through a compact antenna
Cambodia-flagged bulk carrier Vera sank in the Black Sea off Turkey on Tuesday, January 31, Reuters reports. The Vessel was sailing from Russia to Turkey and sank in a storm one mile off the Zonguldak port. Turkish coast guards have rescued three crew members and are still searching for eight other
SMIT Salvage is continually monitoring the weather forecast however adverse weather conditions continue to impact oil removal operations from cruise ship Costa Concordia. Company remobilize their equipment alongside the Costa Concordia, complete the preparations on the forward fuel tanks and commenc
Consilium and Orange Business Services are modernizing maritime communications with the launch of a paperless navigation solution that extends an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) over the world’s largest MPLS-based network. This bundled, flat-rate solution named Current At Sea
VERIPOS has recently secured an extension of its contract with Siem Meling Offshore DA, the Stavanger-based specialist shipping concern jointly owned by Siem Offshore and OH Meling. The three year contract extension is for the continued provision of precision GNSS positioning facilities to support S
Wärtsilä announced today that the Scheme of Arrangement with regards to the acquisition of Hamworthy has become effective and the control of Hamworthy has been transferred to Wärtsilä as of today. The associated Reduction of Capital was confirmed at a Court hearing on 30 January 2012 in London, Unit
Maersk Line has updated its organisation and set a new team of executive managers with a blend of experienced executives and newcomers. New to the management team – and Maersk Line – is Jakob Stausholm, former Group CFO of the global facility provider ISS. Also new on the team is Vincent Clerc, curr
Unique Maritime Group, one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers, today announced two key projects, involving buoyancy systems provided by Seaflex Ltd. World’s Largest Offshore Windfarm The London Array is an offshore wind farm under construction in the out
DeepOcean Group Holding AS, an integrated provider of subsea engineering and trenching services, today announced that Statoil has awarded additional inspection, repair and maintenance contracts to two DeepOcean vessels. Statoil has signed a one-year option for the vessel Edda Fauna under its existin
Paragon Shipping Inc., announced that Deiulemar Compagnia di Navigazione SpA, the charterer of the M/V Friendly Seas, a 2008-built 58,779 dwt Supramax bulkcarrier, has continued to fail to provide payment due since January 5 and has failed to provide the Vessel with voyage instructions. Accordingly,
IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu, speaking at the opening of the Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and Gases (BLG) yesterday (30 January 2012), stated that IMO is the right international body to deal with safety of passenger ships and, in particular, a safety review after the Costa Concordia accident
The world’s biggest container gantries are the core of the future EUROGATE Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven, Germany’s only deepwater container terminal. Four out of the eight container cranes altogether that will go into operation at the first two berths in August 2012 have set sail from Shanghai o
Aker Seafoods ASA has concluded an agreement with Independent Seafood Canada Corporation concerning the sale of the trawler “Nordfjordtrål”. Sales amount is about NOK 43 million. Book value was NOK 41 million per January 1st, 2012. Delivery of the trawler is latest December 1st, 2012. Aker Seafoods
