Press release - Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Mike Stevens visited Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY)…
The U.S. Department of Justice has reached an agreement with a Louisiana shipbuilder resolving a complaint filed with the department’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), claiming the company…
Experts predict a higher level of shipping activity through polar sea routes for the years to come. Aiming to limit the impact of this activity on the region’s fragile environment, the IMO’s Polar Code sets standards that are likely to affect operators in a big way when they come into force in 2017…
Though Russian ports have seen a general decline in the number of containers handled, multimodal operator Ruscon reports it has seen its own numbers rise.Ruscon, a subsidiary of Russian container transport company Global Container Service (GCS)…
Picture this: A naval vessel is navigating the high seas thousands of nautical miles from land. Suddenly all navigation systems become inoperable. What happens next? What does this mean? The Navy looks to its past to chart its future. With today's technology rapidly advancing…
On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), entered its homeport in Bremerhaven. Since mid-May, over 200 biologists, physicists…
Despite a significant general decline in the number of containers handled in Russian ports, multimodal operator Ruscon has seen its own numbers rise. Ruscon, a subsidiary of leading Russian container transport company GCS, handled 65…
Bibby Ship Management welcomed Sanjiv Wagh as Deputy Managing Director of its India offices.With over 30 year’s industry experience, Mr Wagh joins Bibby Ship Management from Kongsberg where he was General Sales Manager for Kongsberg Maritime India…
The global engineering, project management and construction company, Bechtel has become a member of the World Ocean Council (WOC), the international business alliance for Corporate Ocean Responsibility.Bechtel brings considerable experience and expertise in the design…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is deploying a team to Trois-Rivières, Quebec, following the collision between the bulk carrier Desert Rhapsody and the tug Ocean Basque. The TSB will gather information and assess the occurrence…
China's Tianjin Port has opened a new regular shipping route to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, reports Xinhua. The route, run by nine container ships, will call at countries including Malaysia, India, Israel, Egypt and Turkey…
The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore handled a record 86,149 twenty-foot-equivalent units of total container volume in August as shipping volume continued to swell. August volume of total containers, including empties, rose 12.6 percent…
Norway-headquartered drilling contractor Sevan Drilling and Chinese shipbuilder Cosco Corporation have agreed to delay the end of the first deferral period for cylindrical ultra deep water drilling rig Sevan Developer from 15 October 2015 to 1 November 2015…
The heavy lift arm of China’s Cosco Group, China Shipping Co (Coscol) has almost doubled its profit for for the first nine months despite a fall in revenue. Coscol recorded a profit of RMB366.08m ($57.67m) from January to September, a surge of 90…
Nils S. Andersen chief executive of oil and shipping giant, Moller-Maersk says that his company was prepared to weather the storm to defend its 15 percent share of the global container shipping market, reports CNBC. Of late, the shipping…