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Marlins Approved Test Centres Open in Panama, Ethiopia

Aug 25, 2017

Marlins, V.Group’s training business, has approved two new test centres in Panama and Ethiopia. The test centre in Panama is the first Marlins approved test centre in Central America. The centres – E4Seafarers in Panama and Andromeda Marine…

Brazil to Stop Beaching Ships in South Asia

Aug 25, 2017

Brazilian authorities plan to implement legislation to help prevent that vessels owned by exporters such as Petrobras and Vale wind up on South Asia's beaching yards, Bloomberg reported.  The report said that earlier this month, authorities…

Carnival Cruise Ships Blocked from Port by Hurricane Harvey

Aug 25, 2017

Carnival Corp said on Friday that three of its cruise ships are unable to return to the Port of Galveston, Texas, which is closed ahead of Hurricane Harvey.Two of the ships, the Carnival Freedom and the Carnival Valor, will head for New Orleans where they will pick up fresh supplies…

Bulker Owner Fined for US Ballast Water Discharge

Aug 25, 2017

The U.S. Coast Guard said it has issued a $5,000 fine to the owners of a foreign freight vessel for unauthorized ballast water discharge into the Willamette River in Portland, August 16. During a routine port state control ballast water examination on the 590-foot bulk freighter ANSAC Moon Bear…

MST, Reederei Indicted for Falsifying Pollution Records

Aug 25, 2017

A German ship management company and corporate vessel owner have been indicted for falsification of pollution records The U.S. Justice Department announced a federal grand jury in Portland, Maine, returned a nine-count indictment today charging…

Semi-automated Trucks to Hit UK Roads in 2018

Aug 25, 2017

Britain will begin trials of semi-automated, wirelessly connected truck convoys on public roads by the end of 2018, in a bid to find more fuel-efficient ways to transport goods. Development of the technology has already started elsewhere in Europe and the United States…

Keppel AmFELS to Build Two LNG Fueled Containerships

Aug 24, 2017

Keppel AmFELS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) in the United States (US), has secured a contract worth more than US$400m from Honolulu-based Pasha Hawaii for the construction of two Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fueled containerships…

CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt Breaks Panama Canal Capacity

Aug 24, 2017

The Panama Canal welcomed the largest capacity vessel to ever transit the Expanded Locks, the CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt.  CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt  became the largest container ship ever to cross the new canal. Leaving the Port of Yangshan on July 28th…

Alexander Acosta visits APM Terminals

Aug 24, 2017

APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles hosted U.S. Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta today, as he toured the world’s largest proprietary container terminal, and met with leadership officials of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union…

Globecomm Installs Complete Solutions on MV Baltic

Aug 24, 2017

Globecomm, one of the leading providers of maritime connectivity services, has installed a complete communications solution on MV Baltic, the latest newbuild to join the Global Seatrade fleet. To meet demanding connectivity needs, Globecomm…

LNG from Skangas

Aug 24, 2017

Skangas and ESL Shipping have entered into an agreement for providing gas fuel to ESL’s LNG-powered bulk carrier newbuildings. These two new vessels will start operating during first half of 2018.  The first of the two vessels was named “Viikki” in June 2017…

CMA CGM to Strengthen its Presence in South America

Aug 24, 2017

The CMA CGM group, a world leader in container shipping, announces the reshuffling of two services in addition to the MERCOSUL buyout project and pursues its development strategy in South America, with SAFRAN and SIRIUS. These two services…

Verifavia to Provide IMO DCS Services for Liberian-flagged Ships

Aug 24, 2017

Agreement with Liberian Registry will allow all Liberian-flagged vessels to benefit from independent IMO DCS and EU MRV verification services from Verifavia  Emissions verification company for the transport sector Verifavia said it has signed…

CMA CGM Builds up South American Presence

Aug 24, 2017

Following its move to acquire MERCOSUL from Maersk Line, the CMA CGM group has furthered its development strategy in South America by reshuffling its container shipping services between the East Coast of South America and Europe with North of Europe and the Mediterranean…

Danos Names Carter Coatings Operations Manager

Aug 24, 2017

Danos has promoted Clay Carter as coatings operations manager, a position with responsibility for all day-to-day activities of the company’s coatings service line. The appointment follows Carter’s tenure as acting coatings operations manager since 2016…

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