Huntington Ingalls Industries hosts Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert.Adm. Greenert met with company leadership and toured the amphibious assault ship America (LHA 6) at the company's Ingalls Shipbuilding division…
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to provide operational & environmental support to United States Fleet Forces Command (USFF).The contract with the United States Navy is to provide operational and environmental support…
Republic of Belarus signs up to the EU-funded logistics project – Amber Coast Logistics (ACL – to enhance the country's transport & logistics sector.In the Amber Coast region Belarus has a particular role as a transit country of transnational land based trade and transport flows…
Gamesa raises €260-million in funding from European Investment Bank for its on & offshore wind turbine R&D+I investment programme.The funding will be used: To conduct innovation activities in the next three years (2013-2015)…
Cummins brings its U.S. EPA Tier 3 certified new QSK19 & QSK60 marine diesel engines to market.Cummins Tier 3 solutions apply advanced combustion technology to reduce emissions in-cylinder without the need for aftertreatment. The company…
At upcoming International Workboat Show Wärtsilä’s John Hatley PE, Americas VP Ship Power to enlarge on marine gas fuel developments.At the show the company will underline its proven track-record in developing technology solutions that meet anticipated environmental standards…
US-based supplier JW Fishers reminds that ROV deployment may prove safer & cheaper than diving.The company quote many examples to back up their statement, including one where the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) use a Fishers SeaLion-2…
ITF applaud release of Mohamed Chamchati, general secretary of the Moroccan merchant seafarers’ union.Like his colleague Said Elhairech, who was freed in October, Chamchati had been arrested in June on clearly mistaken charges linked to the cessation of operations of the Comarit-Comanav company…
Compliance Costs Collide with Oversupply of Tonnage and a Challenged Economic Climate. Can operators cope? And, what will it cost them if they can? MarPro’s Barry Parker weighs in.At a time when most maritime business sectors are suffering the pains of oversupply…
No Foreign 100% Scanning of In-bound Cargo ContainersWhile some call it a long road to nowhere, the outcome was predicted, and the security of the U.S. with respect to supply chain vulnerabilities is still weak. Here’s where we are now.Scanning 2006 – The U…
Huntington Ingalls Industries donate US$ 2.1-million to the United Way of the Virginia Peninsula.The donation is a combined contribution from the HII corporate office and its participating employees, as well as donations made by the company's…
Drewry Maritime Research’s ‘Annual World Shipbuilding Market Review & Forecast’ highlights bleak prospects for the world’s shipbuilders.Shipbuilding production levels have remained at record high levels exceeding 50 million cgt for two consecutive years (2010 -2011)…
The Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) announces the SCI Mountain Challenge, a first-of-its-kind event in North America supporting the Institute’s mariner welfare programs and services. Mariners train to endure uncomfortable things—months on the water…
Jensen Maritime Consultants, Crowley Maritime Corporation’s naval architecture and marine engineering firm, continues to grow its new office in the New Orleans business district with the hiring of Senior Administrator Lauren Gulkus. Reporting to General Manager Sergio Fifi…
Royal Naval survey ship 'HMS Enterprise' discovers two previously uncharted wrecks in Port Rashid Harbour.Making use of its new hi-tech, smaller motor launch, the Plymouth-based ship discovered two sunken dhows in one of the world's busiest ports at the beginning of a nine-month deployment…