Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) together with Wilhelmsen Ship Management (WSM) received the award for Maritime Services at Tuesday evening’s Lloyds List Middle East & Indian Subcontinent Awards, held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai. WSS and WSM are both part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services, a wholl
ClassNK was selected as the best classification society in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent by receiving the Classification Society Award at Lloyd’s List Middle East & Indian Subcontinent Awards 2012, which was held on 16 October 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai. The Lloyd’s List Middle
Ahead of the upcoming Seatrade Middle East Maritime exhibition and conference, the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre confirms that pirate attacks off the Somali coast have declined by more than 54%, leading to a softening of insurance premiums for the global shipping comm
GMS Saudi Arabia’s self elevating and self propelled jack up barge Kudeta has been chartered to Saudi Aramco to provide cover for Aramco barge drydocking programme commencing in December of 2012. This is the third GMS SESV contracted to Saudi Aramco in the second half of this year. GMS Saudi Arabia
Qatargas Chief Operating Officer, Commercial & Shipping, Alaa Abu Jbara, has delivered a keynote gala luncheon address at the 26th Gastech Conference & Exhibition in London (8-11 October). In his speech, Mr Abu Jbara outlined the history and achievements of Qatargas and its outlook on the future as
ClassNK Chairman and President Noboru Ueda signed an agreement to provide a new technical library of reference books to International Maritime College Oman (IMCO) during a visit to the college’s campus in Sohar, Oman. Dr. Hilal Azzan Al Hadrhrami, Dean & Chairman of the college’s Board of Directors,
The Israel Ports Company on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety has announced the first stage of an international tender for construction services for new container terminal(s) in Haifa (Bayport/HaMifratz Port) and/or Ashdod (Southport/HaDarom Port) w
United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) will commence as of November 1st, 2012 a direct service – GEM1 – from the Indian Subcontinent, Arabian Gulf and Red Sea to Turkey. The GEM1 service will also provide an extensive coverage of other East Mediterranean and North African ports through relay services o
Yesterday EU Naval Force flagship, ITS San Giusto stopped and apprehended a skiff with 7 suspect pirates onboard. The EU warship, that was carrying out counter-piracy patrols as part of Operation Atalanta, had sighted the skiff carrying a ladder and up to 20 fuel drums 180 miles east of Socotra and
Global marine terminal operator DP World has won the Maritime Infrastructure Award at the 8th India Shipping Summit 2012 in Mumbai in recognition of its commitment and foresight in developing and operating ports that act as catalysts to promote trade. The award given to DP World, Subcontinent was re
The Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) had two successful navigational trials to test the port access and turning basins for 15,500 TEU vessels. The first trial was on the “Eleonora Maersk” arriving from the Suez Canal’s North Bound Convoy, with a draft of 14.9 m. She berthed alongside before safe
Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian national oil and natural gas company based in Dhahran, expanded its fleet of supertankers hired to transport oil to the U.S., Bloomberg reports. The company chartered seven VLCCs to carry a total of about 14 million barrels in October, based on Optima Shipbrokers Ltd. B
Saudi Global Ports LLC (SGP), a joint-venture company formed between the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and PSA International (PSA), on Saturday broke ground to mark the official start of construction of the second container terminal in the King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam
Kumhomarine, South Korea’s largest technology provider for the marine industry, will be promoting a host of solutions designed for Middle East-based customers at this year’s ITU World. With a focus on safety, Kuhmomarine will be demonstrating products such as e-navigation, vessel monitoring and elec
