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Braemar Adjusting agrees Strategic Partnership in S. America

Aug 09, 2016

Braemar Adjusting has agreed a strategic partnership with Beckett Liquidadores de Seguros S.A of Chile, to act as its local resource partner in a number of countries in South America. Braemar Adjusting provides Loss Adjusting, Risk Assessment…

Retlif Promotes Reitz to Director of Engineering

Aug 08, 2016

Independent EMC and environmental testing organization Retlif Testing Laboratories has promoted Richard Reitz to the position of Director of Engineering.Reitz has been with Retlif since 1985, serving in several capacities. As Director of Engineering…

Central Command Leadership Join Dwight D. Eisenhower Underway

Aug 08, 2016

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) hosted senior military officers from U.S. Central Command and component commands while operating in the Arabian Gulf, August 6.Gen. Joseph Votel, commander, U.S. Central Command…

Exercise Rim of Pacific Concludes

Aug 06, 2016

The world's largest international maritime exercise concluded Aug. 4, after more than a month of training events conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines…

Why Take a Risk with Offshore Workforce Noncompliance?

Aug 04, 2016

Crispin Jessop of Allocate Software takes a look at how an integrated, automated skills matrix can keep offshore projects compliant in terms of health and safety Health and safety has always come first for offshore operations and the lessons…

McGuigan Named Operations Manager at Aberdeen Harbor

Aug 03, 2016

Aberdeen Harbor Board has appointed John McGuigan to the newly created role of Operations Manager.The role will see McGuigan plan, direct and control the full spectrum of land based operational activities within the port, while working with others…

USCG Foundation to Present Alaska Awards

Aug 03, 2016

The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the education and welfare of all Coast Guard members and their families, announced today that they will honor the men and women who serve on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sycamorefor…

AWO to Hold Subchapter M Info Sessions

Aug 02, 2016

The American Waterways Operators (AWO) will hold Subchapter M information sessions open to both members and nonmembers at its summer regional meetings in Portland on August 10, in Pittsburgh on August 17 and in New York on August 24. Subchapter…

NYK Hosts Fleet Safety Promotion Conference

Aug 02, 2016

Over three times in July, NYK hosted safety promotion conferences for shipowners and ship-management companies at the NYK head office in Tokyo and at Imabari city in Ehime prefecture.These conferences are held every year in two months from July…

Ingalls Shipbuilding Named Mississippi’s Healthiest Workplace

Aug 01, 2016

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division took top honors in the Mississippi Business Journal’s Healthiest Workplace Awards, placing first in the mega large business category. The awards recognize employers throughout…

Injured Fisherman Medevaced

Aug 01, 2016

Coast Guard Station Chatham crewmembers medevaced an injured fisherman Saturday night near the entrance of Great Round Shoal.A person aboard the fishing boat Illusion, which was about 30 miles east of Nantucket en route to its homeport of New Bedford…

Stricken Vessel Being Towed to Lowestoft

Aug 01, 2016

Dogged detective work and attention to detail by the UK Coastguard has led to a broken down yacht being rescued.The call came in from the stricken vessel to the Coastguard Operations Centre at Humber at around 8.40pm today (31st July).It…

USS Carney Rescues 97 Migrants in Mediterranean

Jul 31, 2016

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) aided in the rescue of 97 migrants adrift in the Mediterranean Sea, July 29. Carney is forward deployed to Rota, Spain, and is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U…

MLC 2006 Amendments Set to Take Hold in 2017

Jul 29, 2016

Two years after the approval at the 103rd International Labor Conference (ILC), the Amendments to the Code of the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC, 2006), adopted in 2014, have been confirmed will enter into force on January 18, 2017.The now…

Orion Leader Rescues Sailor

Jul 29, 2016

Orion Leader, a car carrier operated by NYK, rescued a sailor from a sailing yacht in distress on July 3 off the coast of Mexico.Orion Leader was sailing from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, on July 3, when the ship received a distress call from the U…

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