Aberdeen-based SeaHold GEOSHIPS Limited (GEOSHIPS) has announced the acquisition of marine management services company Brooklyn Shipping Ltd (BSL). The acquisition is expected to lead to BSL’s staff numbers more than doubling to 80 this year and also contribute to a significant increase in GEOSHIPS’
Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation and the global technology standard for managing the movement of cargo through terminals, today announced Borusan Lojistik deployed its SPARCS N4 terminal operating system (TOS) at Borusan Port in Gemlik, Turkey. By upgrading from an in-house system to SPARCS N4,
The coming introduction of the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) regulations was very much on the minds of the speakers and participants of Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL) “Energy Efficiency for Existing Vessels” forum in Madrid. The SEEMP is one of a number of regulations and guidelines whic
International regulations that are followed by all shipping nations have long been seen as the best way to improve sea-going safety. Still it was only with the establishment of the United Nations after World War II that these suggestions were made concrete. In 1948 an international conference in Swi
P&O Maritime Services announces the arrival of its Multipurpose DP2 Cable Installation vessel, the CS European Supporter, to Tyneside in the UK. Following an extensive conversion, the European Supporter has been specially equipped to install inter-array power cables in the rapidly expanding European
Dolphin Geophysical AS announces that TGS has exercised their option to extend the contract for the Polar Duke by two months. This secures work for the vessel to early October 2011, at which time TGS have a second option to extend the contract by another six months. “We are very impressed with the P
Wärtsilä, the leading provider of power solutions to both the marine and energy markets, and Versa Power Systems (VPS), a leading developer of environmentally friendly, high-power solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), today announced a co-operative agreement to develop and integrate Versa Power’s SOFC tech
Business Monitor International has announced the launch of its special report on the dry-bulk shipping sector called ‘Dry-Bulk Shipping in Troubled Waters as Glut of Vessels Soaks up Demand’. The shipping industry analysis report provides an in-depth overview of the challenges that the global dry-bu
Henk van Herwijnen of Damen is one of the speakers during the seminar Negotiating with Chinese that the Clingendael Institute organizes on 9… Instituut Clingendael [mappress] Source: InstituutClingendael, June 2, 2011.
GRIMSBY has been earmarked as the base for a firm erecting wind turbines in the North Sea – potentially creating up to 600 new jobs… (thisisgrimsby) [mappress] Source: thisisgrimsby, June 02, 2011;
JSC Sevmash Shipyard executed decision of Stockholm court and paid over $43 mln to Norwegian shipping company Odfjell (world leader in shipping of chemicals and oil products), reported press service of the Russian company. “Sevmash has implemented resolution of Stockholm court in behalf of Norwegian
The Clingendael Institute organizes on 8 June 2011 the seminar Engaging Extremists with a special focus on negotiations with pirates. The speakers are Professor I. William Zartman (Johns Hopkins University, Washington, a leading expert on international negotiations and conflict mediation), Michel Ma
The Danish navy has reportedly confronted and arrested a crew of environmental activists “occupying” a 53,000-ton offshore oil rig about… Alaskadispatch.com [mappress] Source: Alaska Dispatch, June 2, 2011;
TBS International plc announced today that it has taken delivery of the newly-constructed vessel M/V Maya Princess from China Communications Construction Company Ltd./Nantong Yahua Shipbuilding Group Co., Ltd. The M/V Maya Princess is the sixth and final delivery in the series of six “Roymar Class”
