Piracy and armed robbery against ships off the coast of Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden and the wider Indian Ocean will be high on the agenda when IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) meets at the Organization’s London Headquarters for its 90th session from 16 to 25 May 2012. A High-Level Segment will
Port of Salalah has welcomed executives and representatives from the shipping world’s largest shipping lines and principal customers in the local market to the handling of its 30 millionth TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit) container recently. The distinguishing aspects of Port of Salalah, the second
The outstanding leadership of DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali Port has been recognised with the winning of the prestigious Shipping Port of the Year Award at the annual Supply Chain and Transport Awards (SCATA) 2012 . The award, Jebel Ali’s fourth in six years, was received on behalf of DP World by Mo
Oman’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has awarded a commercial bid representing investment of OMR 55 million ($143 million USD) to more than double the Port of Salalah’s general cargo handling capacity. The project will increase dry bulk cargo handling capacity to 20 million tons and liqui
ConocoPhillips Qatar welcomed, Gary Sykes, who will be replacing Erec Isaacson as its new President, effective May 1st. A corporate gathering was held at The Four Seasons hotel to honor Isaacson’s term in Doha and welcome the new ConocoPhillips Qatar President. The event was attended by company asso
ARCADIS, the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, recently announced that together with its subsidiary EC Harris, it has won a three-year framework contract with Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) to provide business planning, master planning, design, engineerin
Noble Energy announced that the Leviathan deep well offshore Israel has reached a depth of approximately 21,400 feet, the deepest known penetration in the Levant Basin. High well pressure and the mechanical limits of the wellbore design resulted in the suspension of drilling operations before the pr
A major oil company in Saudi Arabia has awarded Murjan Al-Sharq for Marine Services (MSMS)., via open tender process, a contract to dredge a sea water plant. The project required the contractor to remove 86,000m³ (111,800 yds³) of fine sand from the sea water intake lagoon. The lagoon is a trapezoid
A delegation from the Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) in conjunction with the Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC), representing Jordan’s Port of Aqaba, the second-largest container port on the Red Sea, is actively seeking to build ties with the Iraqi business community in order to promote Aqaba as th
Qatargas is the first ever company outside of Europe to have trained up in-house City & Guilds, assurance scheme assessors. The Ras Laffan Terminal Operations (RLTO) team of Qatargas embarked upon a “Terminal Training Assurance Scheme” in early 2011 which consisted of three stages; Training, On-The-
Somali pirates are switching back to using smaller cargo and fishing boats as motherships, hoping to evade detection as maritime security is stepped up to foil their attacks on merchant vessels, industry and navy sources say. With the prospect of ransoms worth tens of millions of dollars, Somali pir
An incident involving a fire has occurred 25 nautical miles offshore on board of tugboat TUG 53. This incident occurred on the 29th of April 2012 at approximately 16:45. Unfortunately, this incident resulted in seven fatalities and four injuries, three of them have already been discharged from the h
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum, was welcomed by Nakilat on Thursday, April 26 for a tour of the facilities at Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard in Ras Laffan Industrial City. The visit began with a presentatio
International Maritime Organization secretary-general Koji Sekimizu has called on heads of state to engage with the global fight against piracy, saying that ministerial discussions have failed to deliver the political will needed to tackle the problem effectively. Addressing a shipping industry even
