MacArthur Takes the Helm as Master Aboard T/S State of Maine
Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) hired alumnus Captain Gordon âMacâ MacArthur to serve as master aboard the Training Ship State of Maine.With more than 30 years of experience in the maritime field, MacArthur served most recently as a Senior Dynamic Positioning Officer for Diamond Offshore Drilling, where he monitored environmental conditions, assisted in incident investigation and analysis, maintained and tested equipment, and managed personnel aboard offshore drilling vessels.
Emergency Buy: LNG Tankers Start Offloading Cargo in Mexico
Mexico on Friday began discharging the first of at least four cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) bought under emergency to ease gas scarcity and power cuts atâŠ
Wärtsiläâs Compact Reliq Reliquefaction Plan for Maritime
Lasse Wichstrøm, Sales Manager, Wärtsilä Gas Solutions and Sylvain Fabreguettes, LNGC Systems, Wärtsilä Gas Solutions join Maritime Reporter TV's Greg Trauthwein to discuss Wärtsiläâs Compact Reliq solution and its reversed nitrogen Brayton cycle refrigeration technology.
France Launches Program to Build New Generation of Nuclear Submarines
France is launching a program for the construction of third-generation nuclear-powered, ballistic missile-carrying submarines - SSBN (SNLE 3G). The program aims to provide a new generation of four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines that will serve the French Navy's operational needs between the 2030s and the 2090s. The construction of the new submarines will be led by the French company NavalâŠ
Jensen Maritime Fully Integrated into Crowley
Crowley announced Friday that the company has fully integrated Jensen Maritime into the Crowley Engineering Services group, a group designed to seamlessly combine Crowleyâs diverse business portfolio with Jensenâs marine engineering and naval architecture experience.âThis transformation reflects the evolution of Crowleyâs capabilities as single source for engineering and design since Jensen joined Crowley as a subsidiary in 2008,â said Matt Yacavone, SVP and GM, Crowley Shipping.
Demystifying Cyber Security
Recent cyber attacks to the US Government, the IMO, Maersk, amongst others has caused the world to pay attention to criminal cyber activities by foreign states, terrorists, and criminals. The cyber attack against CMA CGM shut down services for close on two weeks. Two days later, on October 30th the IMO was held hostage by a cyber attack. These attacks follow attacks earlier this year against MSC and COSCO.As of January 1âŠ
NAVTOR Acquires Tres Solutions
NAVTOR continues to evolve its eNavigation solutions with the acquisition announced today of Tres Solutions, a 5-year-old Houston-based tech start up that specializes maritime software and analytics, a natural fit for NAVTOR as it pushes to expand its role in the global fleetâs vessel analytics and performance optimization. Financial specifics of the acquisition were not made available.âWe (explored) the market and we ended up with Tres SolutionsâŠ
'Every Ship That is Available is Sailing,' Says Hapag-Lloyd CEO
With historically high freight rates, fleet utilization and demand, there is no end in sight for the red-hot containership market.Container shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen candidly said ânobody saw this comingâ as âweâve seen a spending shift from services to goodsâ, with consumer spending for household products and goods soaring during the pandemic, as funds usually targeted to travelâŠ
Port of Rotterdam Freight Volumes See Biggest Drop in Decade, But Smaller Than Expected
Freight volumes in the Port of Rotterdam fell 6.9% in 2020 because of the coronavirus crisis, the biggest drop in about a decade but smaller than had been expected, Europeâs largest sea port said on Friday.The port's Chief Executive Allard Castelein told reporters he expected a recovery that began in the second half of 2020 to continue this year but said throughput was not expected to reach pre-crisis levels in 2021.The fall in traffic in 2020 was the largest since 2009, taking throughput down t
Rapid Shipment Required: Pakistan to Buy 300,000 Tonnes of Wheat
A government agency in Pakistan has issued a new international tender to purchase and import 300,000 tonnes of wheat, European traders said on Thursday.Price offers in the tender from the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) must be submitted on March 2.Rapid shipment is required, with the shipment period comprising two weeks plus ship voyage time after the opening of a letter of credit on the purchaseâŠ
Container Delays Could be Resolved in Q2/Q3, Hapag-Lloyd CEO Says
Container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd said surging demand for bulky goods like exercise equipment from locked-down consumers may flatten out in the second or early third quarter, helping to ease disrupted shipping logistics."Things will normalize somewhere hopefully in the course of the second quarter or towards the beginning of the third quarter," Chief Executive Rolf Habben Jansen said in an embargoed briefing session with journalists held on Thursday.Around the worldâŠ
Siem Offshore's Siem Barracuda Nets 100-Day Offshore Wind Deal in Asia
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Siem Offshore and Seaway 7, the renewables business unit of Subsea 7, have entered into a contract for an offshore wind project in the Far East.
U.S. to Unveil Nord Stream 2 Report. Sanctions May Take Time
The Biden administration is expected to name as early as Friday the companies it believes are helping build Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, five sources said, a move that could eventually prompt sanctions on the nearly-completed project.The State Department report to Congress, which may come on Friday, is expected to list companies the administration believes are helping to complete the natural gasâŠ
