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School-boat Propulsion System Order for Northern Lights

Nov 27, 2012

A new Maritime Aquarium (Norwalk, Conn. USA) research & floating schoolhouse vessel to be fitted with Northern Lights' Hybrid Marine System.Northern Lights Hybrid Marine is an ideal fit for the Maritime Aquarium. Their new 65-foot research…

ClassNK Announces PrimeManagement Seminars

Nov 26, 2012

ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda) has announced that it will be bringing its highly regarded PrimeManagement series of seminars to Turkey and Greece for the first time on November 28 and 29th respectively.  The seminars, which are offered free of charge…

ABS Funds New Maritime Engineering Laboratory

Nov 22, 2012

Class Society, ABS donates US$ 3-million to Stevens Institute of Technology to create a newlaboratory complex in the Davidson Laboratory. The donation will be used to create a new civil, mechanical and naval engineering laboratory complex…

NI Issues ECDIS Recommendations

Nov 22, 2012

The ECDIS Group's core message: Shipping companies should establish ECDIS-use guidance within their Safety Management Systems.The ECDIS Training Group is an industry body made up of leading international shipping organisations and co-ordinated by The Nautical Institute (NI)…

Petrofac Offers Accredited Offshore Safety Training in Russia

Nov 22, 2012

Petrofac Training Services' training centre the first in Russia to offer OPITO accredited OERTM, CASS & Escape Chute training.The company has achieved OPITO accreditation at its state-of-the-art base on Sakhalin Island, having continuously…

Norway's Future Engineers Visit Ulstein Yard

Nov 21, 2012

College students from three different schools in the Ålesund region of Norway make familiarisation programme visit to Ulstein Group.The students are participants in the “Motivational course”, a cooperation between ULSTEIN, STX OSV, Rolls-Royce Marine and NCE Maritime…

Webb Institute, ABS Support Maritime Scholars

Nov 20, 2012

Webb Institute awards second ABS scholarship for 2012 for studies in naval architecture and marine engineering.Webb Institute, a four-year college specializing in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, has recognized the second ABS Scholar for 2012…

Wärtsilä Webinar on Making Best Use of Scarce Resources

Nov 19, 2012

The Webinar, titled 'Performance Optimisation for the Merchant Marine Market' is freely available to all on 29, November 2012.In today’s marine market a difficult equation must be solved every day: how to achieve increasingly positive results with increasingly scarce resources…

BAE Launch UK Apprentice Training Initiative

Nov 19, 2012

BAE Systems pilot initiative in conjunction with UK business sector agencies will train 50 engineering apprentices for companies in NW England.Interested supplier companies attended a conference at the firm’s Apprentice Training Centre in Preston where the 50 young people will be trained…

SNAME 2012 Annual Meeting

Nov 19, 2012

The Greek Section of the prestigious international Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers ( SNAME ) had an impressive participation in the October 2012 SNAME Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island in USA. Ten of its members…

PJMTM Center Earns ClassNK Certification

Nov 16, 2012

ClassNK announced that it has certified the type specific ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) training courses provided by the newly established ECDIS training center, Philippines-Japan Maritime Training Management Inc. (PJMTM)…

NNS Employee Named Outstanding Apprentice 2012

Nov 16, 2012

Newport News Shipbuilding employee Greg Hoefflin has been named an Outstanding Apprentice for 2012 by the Virginia Apprenticeship Council.Hoefflin, a 2012 graduate of The Apprentice School at NNS, is the ninth Apprentice School graduate to receive the honor since it was first awarded in 1998…

Michel Named 15th President of Webb Institute

Nov 14, 2012

Dr. George Campbell Jr. named Chairman of Webb’s Board of TrusteesR. Keith Michel, Chairman of the Board of the Herbert Engineering Group of Companies, has been appointed President of Webb Institute, the country’s foremost school of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering…

Griswold Awarded Webb, ABS Scholarship

Nov 14, 2012

Webb Institute awards second ABS scholarship for 2012 for studies in naval architecture and marine engineering. Webb Institute, a four-year college specializing in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, has recognized the second ABS Scholar for 2012…

Index-Linked Container Contracts Webinar

Nov 13, 2012

Drewry & the World Container Index arrange an educational webinar on 5th December 2012 to explain how Index-Linked Container Contracts work
.The webinar will examine the causes of recent container freight rate volatility and how index-linked…

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