Telaurus se@COMM Now Broadband Enabled
This Broadband solution will allow captains and crews to access the internet and all the se@COMM features over any IP based satellite terminal while continuing with, simplicity of use, near real-time communications and vessel side live display of traffic and cost while using the internet. Using similar filters as their current se@COMM email accounts, the Telaurus Broadband solution allows Captains…
Technip Gets Callon Deal
Technip said it has won a deepwater pipeline installation contract from Callon Petroleum Company for the Entrada oil field development in the . Technip will be responsible…
GOC Announces Charter Agreement
Global Oceanic Carriers Limited announced that it has entered into a time charter agreement with Oldendorff Carriers GMBH & CO KG for the M/V Go Pride for a minimum…
DOJ – Ship Operator Fined for ORB Violation
The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said that a ship management company and a chief engineer pleaded guilty to a charge that they falsified…
AAPA Urges Swift Passage of Vessel Air Emissions Bill
The American Association of Port Authorities this week sent an urgent request to leaders of the United States Senate and leaders of the Senate Committee on Commerce…
Transocean Awarded Contract Extension
Transocean Inc., announced that its ultra-deepwater semisubmersible GSF Development Driller II, capable of drilling in water depths of 7,500 ft., has been awarded a five-year contract extension…
USS New York Commissioning Committee Web Site Is Launched
The USS New York Commissioning Committee announced the launch of the official USS New York Commissioning Committee Web site at http://www.USSNY.org. The Web site…
General Dynamics to Christen New Sub
General Dynamics Electric Boat will christen (SSN-778), the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced nuclear attack submarine, at a ceremony at its shipyard on Saturday, June 21.
Coast Guard Launches Nationwide AIS Satellite
The U.S. Coast Guard announced the launch of an ORBCOMM concept demonstration satellite, equipped with Automatic Identification System (AIS) capability, from . The…
Arlington Tanker Explores Consolidation
Arlington Tankers Ltd. (NYSE: ATB) said that it is engaged in a process to review and evaluate strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value. These alternatives…
Teekay Invests $257m in Teekay Petrojarl
Teekay Corporation announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, TPO Investments AS (TPO), has acquired an additional 30.1 percent interest (22.6 million common shares)…
Containership Launched in Germany
The christening ceremony for the first of a series of three 2,700 TEU container ships took place on June 20 in Kiel at HDW-Gaarden, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. All three ships are ordered by the Buss Group. The DONAU TRADER officially got her name from the godmother Brunhild Buss, the wife of Hermann Buss, Managing Partner of the Buss Group. The DONAU TRADER will be initially operated by the shipping line Hamburg Süd.
This Day in Naval History - June 20
1813 - Fifteen U.S. gunboats engage three British ships in Hampton Roads, Va. 1815 - Trials of Fulton I, built by Robert Fulton, are completed in New York. This…