GAC UK & GAC Seaforth overcome challenges to deliver cargo to LakeTanganyika, Burundi, for Surestream Petroleum oil exploration.Independent oil exploration company Surestream Petroleum Ltd, headquartered in Reading, UK, contacted energy…
ITF inspectors visit ships to ask captains and companies to raise concerns about the way Walmart treats its US staff. The ITF is urging shipping firms carrying cargo owned by US retail giant Walmart to raise concerns over its treatment of…
Arnout Damen, COO of Damen Shipyards Group, officially opens a new office in Norwegian Stavanger. When asked why Dutch headquartered Damen Shipyards sets up an advanced base in Stavanger, its new Sales Manager said: “It is the European Oil…
Class Society, ABS donates US$ 3-million to Stevens Institute of Technology to create a newlaboratory complex in the Davidson Laboratory. The donation will be used to create a new civil, mechanical and naval engineering laboratory complex…
The psychological stress of life at sea can be so great that some cannot come to grips with it & Apostleship of the Sea tries to help.The tragic case of a crewmember who jumped overboard illustrates the problem:Fr. Yu Chung, a Filipino…
Petrofac Training Services' training centre the first in Russia to offer OPITO accredited OERTM, CASS & Escape Chute training.The company has achieved OPITO accreditation at its state-of-the-art base on Sakhalin Island, having continuously…
Zbigniew 'Gutek' Gutkowski (ENERGA) retired from the single-handed race after days trying to find a fix for his autopilots.Gutek, almost 2,000 miles behind the leader, Armel Le Cléac’h (Banque Populaire) had been sailing east, running tests on his two autopilots after his wipe out on Saturday…
The spire that will crown the jewel of the Manhattan skyline is making its way over the holiday weekend towards One World Trade Center. A barge carrying eight of the 18 sections of spire for One WTC is en route to New York City on a 1,500…
A.P. Moller-Maersk will not invest significantly in its shipping business over the next five years and will focus on its oil, drilling rigs & ports.Maersk intends to move away from the shipping side of things and go towards sectors which generate higher profits and are more stable…
Aker Solutions is buying Canadian asset integrity management (AIM) company Thrum Energy Inc. Thrum Energy is a St. John's, Newfoundland-based asset integrity management company. The company provides a diverse portfolio of quality services to both onshore and offshore assets in Canada…
US Coast Guard Unified Command deploy survey & response inspection crews to the vessels aground on Ukolnoi Island, 40 miles east of Cold Bay.The five-person crew of the tugbboat Polar Wind was rescued Nov. 13 after the tug ran aground and began taking on water…
Cruise ship 'Carnival Breeze' hoists 50' inflatable turkey aloft while Carnival Cruise Line donate 137,500 meals to 'Feeding South Florida'.The 1,250-pound nylon turkey — wearing a straw beach hat and colorful Hawaiian shirt – was hoisted…
UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency report Yarmouth Coastguard's response to recent WSV's in distress.Yarmouth Coastguard coordinated the response for two Windfarm Support Vessels (WSV) working at offshore windfarms involved in separate incidents…
In China's container terminal league table Shenzhen is overhauling HK, Dalian is the fastest growing & Yingkou vaults into top 25.Shanghai is still ahead of Singapore for top spot in the world – by some half a million boxes in the first three quarters – 24…
College students from three different schools in the Ålesund region of Norway make familiarisation programme visit to Ulstein Group.The students are participants in the “Motivational course”, a cooperation between ULSTEIN, STX OSV, Rolls-Royce Marine and NCE Maritime…