The Mitsui O.S.K. Lines' 2008-built Bahama-flagged 8,000 teu containership 'MOL Comfort' foundered Monday & all 26 crew were picked up from a lifeboat by 'MV Yantian Express'.According to GAC there is a considerable amount of oil in the water…
The Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology is able to extend its grant and scholarship program in Small Craft Design thanks to further funding from the Kathy & Jerry Wood Foundation.The funds were originally for three years, but an additional…
Chongqing Container Terminal in Southwest China reports container volume up 29.7% to 166,000 teu in Q1 2013.Import and export container volume climbed 29.7 per cent to 166,000 TEU. Laden boxes amounted to 124,000 TEU, an increase of 33.3 per cent…
VT iDirect announce that OmniAccess S.L., communications provider to superyacht & megayacht owners, has successfully launched a live satellite communications network built on iDirect's latest iDX 3.2 software and incorporating the high-performance X7 remote…
Norway's Tekna (Technical and Scientific Association) awards its gold medal to Ulstein Group for creating opportunities in technology.Gunvor Ulstein, CEO of Ulstein Group, received Tekna’s Gold Medal at a recent ceremony. The medal is given…
Container cargo rose by more than 17 percent in May 2013 at the Port of Long Beach, with some of the highest volumes in nearly 3 years.A total of 583,588 TEUs (or twenty-foot equivalent container units) were moved in May, up 17.2 percent from the same month last year…
The chief executive of energy services company Proserv has been named Ernst & Young Scotland Entrepreneur of the Year 2013.Judges praised David Lamont for molding “a phenomenal business of a truly global nature” in overseeing a 25% year…
Randall P. Bergeron, President, Tesla Offshore LLC has announced that Donizeti Carneiro has joined Tesla Offshore LLC as the company’s area manager for South America, with an office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the past 13 years Donizeti has…
Harkand, the international subsea inspection, repair, maintenance and light construction group, has appointed Deborah Stevenson as the company’s new chief financial officer.A former CFO of both private equity-backed and FTSE 250 businesses in engineering and asset rich companies…
From May 1, 2013 Kasper Rosenberg has been employed as Bunker Trader. He will be a part of the sales department in the company’s head office in Middelfart, Denmark, which currently consists of 24 traders with different nationalities.Kasper has previously been working with shipping and agency…
Maersk Container Industry has joined the United Nations' SAVE FOOD Initiative to help make international food logistics more efficient.'Food should not be wasted, but too often it is, and we believe our technologies can help improve the food logistics chain…
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by Arklow Shipping to upgrade 12 container vessels with VisionMaster FT Electronic Chart Display & Information Systems (ECDIS).Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit will install all of the systems by the end of 2014…
A new commander of Coast Guard units in the Houston-Galveston area & Captain of the Port in those areas has relieved his predecessor during a change-of-command ceremony in Clear Lake.Capt. Brian Penoyer relieved Capt. James Whitehead, who is retiring from the Coast Guard after 26 years of service…
A fire aboard aircraft carrier 'USS Nimitz' (CVN 68) in the ship's electrical equipment was quickly extinguished by the ship's underway fire-fighting team.No Sailors were injured during the event or the response, and the ship and embarked air wing remain operable and in a safe…
The UK P&I Club issue information for members whose vessels call at the remote Alaskan port on the Arctic Circle.Red Dog is a port established specifically to support the associated Lead and Zinc mine. It is a very remote location of Alaska and there are no services…