This year’s June 25th marks the fourth international Day of the Seafarer, an official United Nations observance day. Day of the Seafarer celebrates the vital yet often hidden work done by seafarers to transport goods and commodities all around the globe. As nicely put by IMO, Seafarers are the peopl
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the principal trade association for merchant shipowners, has welcomed proposals to protect the world’s oceans adding that the Global Ocean Commission’s (GOC) ideas should be taken seriously. The GOC said it would like to see a greater level of environment
On complicated technical systems such as vessels, there is an enormous amount of different sensors, that measure some kind of input from the physical world. A person technically trained is able to gain some information from a single sensor reading, but the information is much more useful when the da
Drydocks World has announced the signing of an agreement with Kleindienst Group to provide a complete range of offshore marine and operational management solutions for their The Heart of Europe project. The project comprises of a cluster of six islands owned by the group on The World project in Duba
The Liberian Registry has called on shipping regulators to ensure the effective implementation of existing rules to protect human life, safety and the environment, rather than creating new rules and regulations instead. Scott Bergeron, CEO of the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry, the
Chinese container ports are the world’s most productive, according to the 2013 JOC Port Productivity Data rankings. Last year’s top three ports globally, in terms of berth productivity, were Tianjin, Qingdao and Ningbo. The top three terminals were APM Terminals Yokohama and Tianjin Xingang Sinor, w
The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) has held a joint meeting with the National Transport Authority (NTA) to reveal a new initiative aimed at enhancing existing services provided to ship-owners in Dubai. The meeting, which was held at the DMCA headquarters in the presence of owners of commercial
Gulftainer, a subsidiary of United Arab Emirates-based Crescent Enterprises entered a 35-year agreement with Port Canaveral on Monday to operate a container and cargo terminal being constructed at the port. The deal will see an investment of up to $100 million in equipment and employees to operate t
Korean Register has been fully authorized by the Ministry of Transport and Communications in the Sultanate of Oman to deliver “statutory services” on behalf of the Oman government. The Oman authorities have also authorized LR and BV – alongside KR – allowing each society to perform statutory service
DP World has informed that its new Container Terminal 3 at its flagship Jebel Ali Port is making good progress with the arrival of 5 new quay cranes and half of its 19 automated cranes being tested before the start of initial operations in the next few weeks. The 4 million TEU (twenty foot equivalen
The IMO Council has endorsed a proposal by IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu to adopt “Maritime education and training” as the World Maritime Day theme for 2015. Addressing the IMO Council, meeting for its 112th session at IMO Headquarters in London, Mr. Sekimizu said that effective standards of t
The National Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) informed that it had signed a Murabaha financing agreement on Sunday, June 22 with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (Riyadh Branch), Samba Financial Group and the Saudi British Bank (SABB) for SAR 3.18 billion ($848 million) to finance the cash consideratio
Pulling the plug on the plans to set up an operational alliance between the world’s three biggest container shipping groups (Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA-CGM), the so called P3 Network, by Chinese regulators was caused by legal uncertainties, the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) claims
Container volumes from Asia to Europe continued their strong growth in April, with the sub-routes to the Western Mediterranean and North Africa showing the largest volume increases of 6%, the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) said in its Shipping Market Review for the week 24, 2014. The lates
