The world’s second and third-largest container shipping companies have announced the signature of a major agreement. The two family-owned companies, the Swiss- Italian MSC and France’s CMA CGM, today agreed to form a broad-based operating partnership spanning several trades, including Asia-Northern
With the aim of providing significantly more cost-efficient services, Hamburg Süd and Seago Line announce that they are to enhance their cooperation in the trade between North Europe and Eastern Mediterranean. Both lines had responded to unfavourable market developments in this trade in August 2011
A wide range of resolutions, reflecting the broad canvas of the Organization’s work, was adopted by the 27th Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), when it met in London at the Organization’s Headquarters from 21 to 30 November 2011. They included a resolution urging Governments
DCT Gdansk, the Baltic’s most modern container terminal, is now capable of operating more efficiently than ever. New post-Panamax STS cranes from Liebherr delivered to DCT on 8th of August 2011 and assembled on site were deployed in mid November, more than 2 weeks ahead of schedule. DCT tested 5 cra
The most important forum for companies working in the transport industry of Russia finished its work in “Sokolniki” exhibition center of Moscow. The event was sponsored by the SCF group of companies. The exhibition was attended by over 3,000 representatives of government and businesses, who discusse
Recently Fassmer handed over “AMRUMBANK”, a new 44.5-metre buoy-laying vessel, to the Water and Maritime Authority Tönning in Wittdün on the German North Sea island of Amrum. The ship is the first of three new buoy-layers with a length of about 44 metres. Fassmer was commissioned to design and build
The Ministers of Defence of the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) have started talks in Brussels to try to solve the shortage of… (FIS) [mappress] Source: FIS, November 30, 2011
The Demag Cranes Group brought financial year 2010/2011 to a successful close. Not least thanks to factors including the economic recovery, demand for products and services noticeably improved overall. Group order intake increased by 23.1 % compared with financial year 2009/2010 to EUR 1,121.2 milli
The Board of Directors of OAO Sovcomflot held a meeting on 25 November 2011. In accordance with the decision of the extraordinary shareholders’ meeting of 3 November 2011, the Board of Directors considered a number of organisational matters. Ilya Klebanov was unanimously elected as Chairman of the B
Employee owned marine engineering company, Houlder has announced its award winning Turbine Access System (TAS), fabricated at MKW Engineering, has been successfully Load Tested in the presence of Lloyds Register. The TAS, developed with BMT Nigel Gee, is designed to provide safe and reliable access
The Northern Sea Route has set the record with the highest number of vessels in transit from Murmansk to another country. According to Rosatomflot, operator of the nuclear icebreaker fleet, 34 vessels have sailed the Northern Sea Route this year with total cargo of 820 000 tons. Last year, only four
Blue Offshore will attend world’s largest offshore wind energy event, EWEA Offshore 2011, from 29 November to 1 December. During the show, company’s latest developments such as their flexible, modular basket carousel with variable cable carrying capacities will be presented. Blue Offshore’s latest p
As part of a new agreement with global transportation provider Odfjell Management AS, Marlink is to supply WaveCall™ VSAT systems for installation aboard 40 vessels. Having worked with Odfjell for several years supplying MSS on-demand services, Marlink’s renewed contract represents a further move to
The 22 year old icebreaker, which has been incapacitated at RTP Atomflot base in Murmansk for several years, will be ready for operating along the Northern Sea Route next summer for the purpose of assisting the booming Arctic sea transport, Barents Observer reported Due to greater traffic requiremen
