Maritime Training Leads to Career Opportunities
With just a fraction of the maritime workforce younger than 25 years of age, the industry looks to garner more interest for jobs up for grabs as the nation's largest…
TWMA Appoints New Global Technical Advisor
TWMA has announced the appointment of Tom Trigg as Global Technical Advisor. Based at TWMA’s Houston office, Trigg will help advance improvements in oil and gas drilling waste treatment and footprint reduction. He will also support the global sales and technical team with his in depth technical knowledge about current industry practices. Trigg has 42 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas…
INSIGHTS: from Crowley's Todd Busch
Todd Busch: SVP and General Manager, Technical Services at Crowley Maritime Corporation. Todd Busch joined Crowley as an ordinary seaman in 1986, earning his masters’…
ABS, SCUT to Coordinate Research Projects
Signed letter of intent lays the groundwork for collaboration on educational, outreach activities related to shipbuilding, offshore and marine engineering. ABS has…
Shipdock Lands Jack-Up Upgrade Contracts
Secret weapon’: dedicated on site steel construction and machining facility. The skyline of the Amsterdam harbours has been visibly altered in the neighbourhood of Shipdock, Amsterdam’s premier ship repair and conversion yard. The company has recently secured four major contracts for the upgrading and maintenance of the jack-up vessels GMS Endurance, GMS Endeavour, Seajack Leviathan and Seajack Zaratan.
Canada's Fednav Orders Six New Great Lakers
Fednav Limited announce contracts with Japanese shipbuilders Oshima Shipyard. The environmentally advanced vessels will be built in Japan and are destined to become…
US Census Bureau Today Features Fulton's Steamboat
Young America got the motive power it needed to expand beyond the capacities of the horse on this day in 1807. On this day in history the public got its first glimpse of a steam-powered boat.
Rolls-Royce Thrusters to Power Scottish Ferries
Rolls-Royce wins contracts to supply thrusters for two Scottish operators, Western Ferries and Orkney Ferries. Western Ferries recently announced the construction of two new ferries which will operate on the Dunoon to Gourock route, across the Firth of Clyde. The 50-metre, double ended car ferries will each be equipped with a pair of Rolls-Royce Aquamaster US 105 CRP thrusters, which rotate through 360 degrees and are particularly suited to the quick turn-round operations of these vessels.
Botany Bay Container Terminal Construction Contract Awarded
Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) awards Laing O’Rourke the civil works contract for Australia's new Port Botany Terminal 3. The contract marks the start of the on-ground…
New Zealand Checks Jet-boat Drivers' Competency
The first jet boat drivers in the country to be licensed under a change to maritime rules receive their licenses in Queenstown. The New Zealand jet boating industry…
Yangtze River Delta Shipbuilders Floundering
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reports that orders in first half 2012 are down by 50.3% year-on-year. The volume of handling orders was…
Baltic Sea Shipping Company Increases Profits in Q1 2012
AS Tallink Grupp announce unaudited net profit in second quarter 2012 increased by 47%. AS Tallink Grupp is one of the largest ferry companies in the region, operating six routes between Finland…
Longshoreman's Union Sues US Port of Portland
The International Longshore & Warehouse Union ILWU file a federal lawsuit against the Port of Portland & Bill Wyatt, its Executive Director. The ILWU filed a federal…
North Norway Port Booms as Arctic Ocean Base
Kirkenes is becoming an important port for vessels conducting seismic surveys in the Arctic search for fossil fuels. Geographical proximity to the oil and gas fields and developed infrastructure draws companies to this North Norwegian town. One of the companies making a profit on the increased activity in the Arctic is Henriksen Shipping. Since the Agreement on Delimitation of the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean came into force…
Wrecked Container Ship 'Rena' Salvage & Cargo Recovery Update
The first steel fore sections cut & removed from 'Rena', with the Bell 214 heavy-lift helicopter completing 14 separate lifts to the barge Kapua. • The barge made its first landing in Tauranga with an estimated 40 tonnes of steel, which included deck equipment and pieces of winches from the fo’c’sle. • Work is continuing with the modifications to the helicopter landing platform, and pre-cutting of upper decks, fo’c’sle deck, and equipment.
Yachtsman Plucked from N.Atlantic 40-ft Swell
A team of Royal Navy aviators rescue an injured man from his yacht 70 miles offshore UK coast in Sea State 8 & a 40-foot (12m) swell. The duty crew of 771 Naval Air Squadron, based at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in Helston, Cornwall, carried out the risky operation following a 'scramble' to a lone sailor in difficulties. Having conducted a visual search of the area for over an hour, 70 miles (113km) out at sea, in very poor visibility, the team located the sailor when he lit a flare.
Ocean Works Helps Increase VENUS Ocean Observatory Capability
OceanWorks International has produced the SIIM-375, a mini-Node variant of the Subsea Instrument Interface Module (SIIM) for the VENUS observatory. VENUS, the coastal network of the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) Observatory, is a cabled undersea laboratory for ocean researchers and explorers. VENUS delivers real time information from seafloor instruments via fibre optic cables to the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
Port Metro Vancouver Posts Healthy Growth 1H 2012
Canada's largest & most diverse port releases its 2012 mid-year results, posting growth of 6% overall. The 2012 mid-year statistics report shows that Port Metro…
Handbook on Mast, Rigging & Sails Published Soon
'Rig Basics' will be launched on15 September, 2012, at the Southampton Boat Show (Kelvin Hughes stand J001, Solent Hale). Rig Basics - How to Look After Your Mast, Rigging and Sails provides a concise, informative and clearly-written outline of what every yacht or sailboat owner or operator must take into account when looking after the mast, rigging and sails. It is also a highly useful guide to what a surveyor should be looking at when surveying a rig.
Wind Turbine Service Jack-up Order for Nordic Yards
Northern Germany's Nordic Yards contracted by Denmark's DBB Jack-up Services to construct a Wind Turbine Service Jack Up Vessel (WTSJUV). The production of the vessel…
