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CrewInspector.com Wins Saga Agency Contract

Nov 01, 2011

Online crew management system provider CrewInspector.com signed an agreement with Saga Agency (Saga UAB) Lithuanian crewing agency to provide its proprietary crew management system. Following the agreement, Saga Agency will use software as a service for their offices in Klaipeda and Kaliningrad…

Manila STCW Workshop Held in Jamaica

Oct 31, 2011

Amendments to the STCW Convention have been made at the right time to make it relevant for today's and future needs, according to Rear Admiral Peter Brady, Director General of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica. Officially opening a regional…

Vessel operating costs expected to rise

Oct 31, 2011

Vessel operating costs are expected to rise by 3.8% in 2011 and by 3.7% in 2012, with lube expenditure and crew costs identified as the categories most likely to produce the highest levels of increase, according to a new survey by international accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens…

CARB Taps CMA to Assess Ship Fuel Regs

Oct 28, 2011

The California Maritime Academy (CMA) was contracted to evaluate issues associated with the implementation of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) ship fuel regulation.While most vessel operators are successfully complying with the regulation without incident…

AB&B Marketing to Assist Toledo Maritime Academy

Oct 26, 2011

AB&B Marketing, a division of AB&B Ergonomics, signed an agreement Tuesday with The Maritime Academy of Toledo Foundation to assist in marketing and organizing two job retraining programs --- Cruise Ship Professional Development and the U.S…

Next SOCP Meeting: November 2nd and 3rd

Oct 25, 2011

The Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) cordially invites maritime industry representatives to attend and participate in its November meeting in Linthicum, MD on November 2nd and 3rd. Delegates and ranking officers of the US Maritime…

Transas: New Anti-Piracy Training Solution

Oct 25, 2011

In response to still pressing piracy threat off the coast of Somaila, Transas has developed an Anti-Piracy solution that will support maritime schools in performing relevant training. The Transas Anti-Piracy package consists of a mothership…

Kongsberg Simulators for Indonesian Seamen

Oct 25, 2011

Kongsberg Maritime will supply a large suite of Maritime Simulators to Barombong Merchant Marine College (BP2IP) in Indonesia. As part of the contract, Kongsberg Maritime will provide its world-class Polaris and Neptune Simulators for navigation and engine room training to the school’s new facility…

GMATS Announces New Curriculum

Oct 21, 2011

GMATS to expand global supply chain and maritime security curriculum.The Global Maritime and Transportation School is introducing two additional courses, as follows:  Fundamentals of Importing and Exporting As a foundation of…

Maritime Academy of Toledo Educates Community Leaders

Oct 20, 2011

Need to Educate More People for Maritime Jobs Stressed at Meeting with Community Leaders. Officials with the Maritime Academy of Toledo met with area community leaders Wednesday and stressed that more has to be done to call attention to job opportunities in the maritime industry…

Transocean Opens Kuala Lumpur Training Center

Oct 19, 2011

Transocean officially opened its state-of-the-art training center and offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The training center and offices were opened by Dato’ Wee Yiaw Hin, Executive Vice President, Exploration and Production, of PETRONAS, and Steven L…

ClassNK and NMRI Convene Workshop on Damage Stability

Oct 19, 2011

Leading Classification Society ClassNK and Japan’s National Maritime Research Institute (NMRI) brought some of the world’s leading specialists on structural safety to Tokyo for an international workshop on risk-based assessment of ship safety…

Training Vessel to Make First-ever Stop in Toledo

Oct 19, 2011

Officials with The Maritime Academy of Toledo and the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City, MI announced this week that the Great Lakes Maritime Academy training vessel, T/S State of Michigan, will make her first-ever visit to Toledo in late May 2012…

Coast Guard's NMC Reaches Out on Server Problems

Oct 18, 2011

Mariner Credentialing Program List Server Issues.Recently the National Maritime Center (NMC) experienced some technical difficulties with the Mariner Credentialing Programs (MCP) information List Server service. Our recent consolidation…

MOL Drill Tests Disaster Response

Oct 17, 2011

MOL Table Top Drill Tests Response to Possible Product Tanker Collision, Fire in Tokyo Bay. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL, President: Koichi Muto) announced the completion of a table top drill based on a scenario in which the MOL Group…

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