Sanmar Denizcilik, tugboat builder & tugboat operator is celebrating its ‘40th Anniversary’ this year. More than 150 tugboats are presently in operation on international seas.In 1976 Orhan Gürün, today’s company chairman, together with his dear friend…
The International Chamber of Shipping, as the Secretariat for the Shipowner Group at the International Labour Organization (ILO), co-ordinated employers’ representatives at the Ad Hoc Tripartite Maritime Committee on the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised)…
The Bomin Group, a physical supplier and trader of marine fuel oil, has announced the appointment of Shogo Miura, a new Business Development Manager in Japan. As the operation expands, Bomin is also moving to new offices in Tokyo. Miura…
The International Chamber of Shipping, as the Secretariat for the Shipowner Group at the International Labour Organization (ILO), co-ordinated employers’ representatives at the Ad Hoc Tripartite Maritime Committee on the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised)…
The leading international Arctic research organisations have set common scientific objectives for the coming decade. The indigenous peoples of the Arctic were also involved in this process. Under the auspices of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)…
Billionaire investor John Fredriksen's dry bulk shipping firm Golden Ocean plans to raise $200 million in fresh equity as it continues to face weak markets for its vessels, the company said on Thursday. Fredriksen's investment vehicle Hemen Holding…
Star Bulk Carriers Corp. a global shipping company focusing on the transportation of dry bulk cargoes, announced that it has entered into a Capesize vessel pooling agreement (“CCL”) with BOCIMAR INTERNATIONAL NV, GOLDEN OCEAN GROUP LIMITED and C TRANSPORT HOLDING LTD…
Adani Enterprises Ltd, the flagship company of the Adani Group, a global integrated infrastructure player, was today awarded the prestigious “Energy and Environment Foundation Global CSR Awards 2016” in the Platinum category. The Award was presented…
Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways. Government of India, launched the Website for Maritime India Summit 2016 www.maritimeinvest.in at the Ports and Shipping seminar at Make in India (MII) Summit today. This user…
Vice President Biden commemorates 7th Anniversary of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act at Port of New Orleans; tours the port’s new Mississippi River Intermodal Terminal Vice President Joe Biden toured the Port’s new Mississippi River…
Hong Kong-based shipping giant Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) said it would not accept cargo bookings for whale, shark, dolphin and their related products with immediate effect. In a statement the container shipping firm said: 'In…
CMA CGM will increase rates US$900 per TEU from all Asian ports to the Mediterranean including the Black Sea and North Africa - and EUR800 (US$892.93) per TEU to Syria from March 1. The Frech shipping giant will also increase rates US$250…
The world’s largest container shipping company Maersk Line said that it will increase the rate from north Europe to west central Asia by US$100 per TEU, $150 per FEU and 40-foot high cube from March 1. This will apply to shipments from Finland…
Norwegian firm Statoil ASA is ending its rig contract for the Maersk Gallant six months early. The jack up rig has been on contract with Statoil for two years, since 21 August 2014, and since 9 October it has been sub-chartered to ConocoPhillips…
Paris-based consultancy, Alphaliner, reports “a new mega alliance appears to be in the making,” as French container shipping major CMA CGM and its Chinese counterpart China COSCO lead efforts to set up a new carrier partnership. (Marine Link has reported about this last week…