Caterpillar, Uptake to Create Analytic Solutions
To help customers around the world better understand the health of their equipment and optimize machine availability, Caterpillar Inc.today announced it has entered…
ST Engineering Makes Management Changes
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd today announced that Mr Ravinder Singh will replace Mr Sew Chee Jhuen as President of Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd (ST Kinetics).
Danelec Marine Unveils eSERVICEConnect Initiative
Danelec Marine launched its new eSERVICEConnect initiative today in a move to automate and streamline shipboard service for its products worldwide. Danelec’s eSERVICEConnect is an Internet…
Scandlines Concludes Sale of Freight Routes
First State Investments is taking over the ferry route Helsingør-Helsingborg including the five vessels operating the line. The contract with First State Investments…
Toyota Kirloskar, Kamarajar Port Ink Deal for Expansion
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd. (TKM) signed an MoU with Kamarajar Port Ltd. (KPL) in order to help facilitate the expansion of its export business. The MoU is…
India's Naval Help to Small Indian Ocean Nations
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assigned senior officials in the Ministry of Defence with a task to “identify” and “support” maritime needs of smaller nations…
Remontowa to Build Ferries for BC Ferries
Polish shipyard Remontowa Shipbuilding SA has signed a contract for building three car-and-passenger ferries for the Canadian ship owner - BC Ferries Company, said Xinhua.
EC Okays Maritime Fisheries Fund
European Commission has approved Malta’s Operational Program European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) for the 2014-2020 financial periods, announced Parliamentary…
Irish Ferries Owner Revenues up 9.6%
Irish Continental Group, the company behind Irish Ferries, posted a 9.6pc increase in revenue last year (2014) in taking Euro 290.1 million. ICG's ferry division…
Houston Ship Channel Reopens After Ships Collide
The Houston Ship Channel has reopened after a collision between a container ship and a chemical tanker, according to a spokesman with the United States Coast Guard.
Are Megaships Game Changers?
Bragging rights for the world’s largest container ship have changed hands four times in as many months and keep on shifting again, says a report in the Bloomberg.
Martian Ocean Held More Water than the Arctic
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration say there was once more water on the planet Mars than in the Arctic Ocean on Earth. In a new study in the journal Science…
Wintershall Takes Over Operatorship of Norwegian Subsea Oil and Gas Field
Wintershall has taken over the operatorship of the subsea oil and gas field Vega from Statoil, Wintershall announced today. Vega is the BASF subsidiary’s first operated subsea tie-in field in Norway. With this transfer, Germany-based Wintershall now operates two production fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Brage and Vega. The takeover of the Vega operatorship is part of a transaction with Statoil that was completed in December 2014.
Port of San Pedro Seeks to Fund Upgrades with European Roadshow
Ivory Coast's second largest port of San Pedro will hold a roadshow in France and Britain next month as it seeks to raise 180 billion CFA francs ($300 million) to fund upgrades, the port's director said. San Pedro is already the world's leading port for cocoa exports, shipping more than half of total output from Ivory Coast, the top producer of the chocolate ingredient. It also exports coffee, palm oil, timber and cotton.
Navis to Deploy Its N4 TOS to France's Largest Container Terminal
Navis has reached an agreement to deploy its N4 terminal operating system (TOS) to the largest container terminal in France, the company announced today. The license agreement was with EUROFOS…
Two Mooring Tugs Delivered to NSW
Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar (NDSQ) has delivered two new Qatari-built mooring tugs to towage operator Nakilat SvitzerWijsmuller (NSW). The delivery of the two ASD 2810 tugs is part of a seven-vessel order that the yard is currently working on for NSW. The first of the new tugs, named Umm Al Shubrum, completed sea trials in Ras Laffan in mid-January 2015. She was followed in February by the second vessel, Al Kharsaah. Both vessels will operate as part of Nakilat NSW’s growing fleet.
Senate Committee Approves Vessel Discharge Reform Legislation
The effort to establish a uniform national framework for the regulation of vessel discharges took another step forward as the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved S. 373, the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, with strong bipartisan support. A broad-based coalition of nearly 60 organizations joined the American Waterways Operators in urging the committee to approve VIDA.
First Subsea Achieves API 17L1 Certification for Bend Stiffener Connectors
Connector technology developer First Subsea has received APL 17LI certification for its bend stiffener connectors from the American Petroleum Institute, the company announced today. The bend stiffener connectors are used for flexible riser and umbilicals and offshore wind cable connections and are now certified as Load Transfer Devices under the API's specification for flexible pipe ancillary equipment.
Vancouver Port Operations Resume Atfer Container Fire
Port Metro Vancouver said on Thursday that operations had resumed at most port facilities shut down by a shipping container fire the day before, but that its Centerm…
Stronger Panamaxes Boost Baltic Sea Freight Index
The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, made minor gains on Thursday on higher rates for the panamax and smaller vessel segments.
