CKYH-the Green Alliance hereby announces that, together with Evergreen Line (“Evergreen”), all parties intend to enhance highest frequency of service loops, expedition of delivery terms and full scale of port coverage in their services and agreed to strengthen cooperation among one another in Asia-E
COSCO Shipping Co., Ltd. is planning to establish two joint ventures in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Houston, the United States and with NMA Maritime＆ Offshore Contractors B.V. The Company will hold a 70% stake in the two joint ventures that will be involved in attracting shipping business. On Dec
Anticipating that the pirates will not take a break over the holiday period, neither will the EU NAVFOR units patrolling around the Horn of Africa and in the Somali Basin. Whilst back at home in Europe the families of the deployed EU NAVFOR personnel celebrate this very special season of the year, t
As a support to its fleet, MarineCo, a boat operator, has introduced its second Twin Axe Catamaran Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) commissioned under a funding deal with Clydesdale Bank as the Straiton-based company moves into the offshore renewable energy market. The most recent vessel will be heading to
Viking Supply Ships AS daughter company Trans Viking Icebreaking & Offshore AS (“TVIO”) has agreed to an addendum to the charter party with the Swedish Maritime Administration (“SMA”) which gives TVIO an option to end the contract for Vidar Viking, one of the Company’s three Icebreakers/AHTS-vessels
ICS is advising shipping companies to ensure they comply with the Manila amendments to STCW, particularly in relation to seafarers’ rest hours and the more stringent requirements for preventing drug and alcohol abuse that will apply worldwide from January 1st 2012. The International Chamber of Shipp
SEACOR Marine LCC announced that it has invested in Windcat Workboats Holdings Ltd, a European operator of wind farm utility vessels. U.S.-based SEACOR Marine, a subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings Inc., operates a fleet of offshore marine support vessels, serving the global offshore oil and gas explorati
Moorings Systems has completed the installation of a flexible export flowline to transfer water to a DP tanker at the BP Valhall platform complex in the Norwegian North Sea. The project involved installation of 1,160 metres, 6” flexible flowline, front end engineering, mobilisation of equipment, and
The votes have been counted and International Cranes and Specialized Transport magazine revealed the winner and two runners up of its 2011 TopLift competition. Jumbo Offshore was selected winner with its major performance on the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm project. Readers of International Cr
The Aktau marine harbour is finishing the year with record indices. The port has handles almost 12 million tonnes of freights, including over 8 million tonnes of oil, over 3 thousand tonnes of grain and two million tonnes of metal products. Together with the everyday work the port is conducting the
The Green Award Foundation and MeteoGroup Maritime have signed an agreement to work together to incentivise ship owners with high safety and environmental standards and to eliminate substandard shipping from the world’s oceans. Green Award Managing Director Jan Fransen and MeteoGroup Maritime CEO Pe
Major revisions to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (the STCW Convention), and its associated Code enter into force on 1 January 2012, with a five-year transitional period until 1 January 2017. The “Manila Amendments” were adopted at
A Docking based company is planning major investment into offshore wind industry. They are planning to invest GBP 10 million to acquire 8 boats. Earlier this month, Tidal Transit has purchased two state-of-the-art, purpose-designed 20 meter support vessels to transport construction workers and maint
Two large heavy lift vessels recently called into the Port of Esbjerg. The vessels were to transport wind turbines for two projects in which Blue Water Shipping is involved. The m/v Spiegelgracht called into Esbjerg for the loading of 10 complete Vestas wind turbines destined for Curacao in the Dutc
