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Heyde to Replace Roelse as CEO, Royal IHC

Aug 09, 2016

Royal IHC has announced that on 1 September 2016 Bram Roelse will step down as CEO. On that date Mr Dave Vander Heyde will be appointed by the Supervisory Board as the company’s new CEO.During his time in this role, Mr Roelse has used his…

Training Ship Returns Safely to SUNY Maritime

Aug 08, 2016

To much fanfare and many happy tears, the cadets and crewmembers of SUNY Maritime College’s training ship disembarked after a 90-day voyage around the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The cadets’ family members and friends lined the side of campus with camp chairs…

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…

Choice Names Mackey Business Development Manager

Aug 08, 2016

Choice Ballast Solutions announced that James “Jim” P. Mackey has joined the firm as Business Development Manager to further develop key accounts and cultivate new business worldwide.  Mackey joins Choice from a career spanning more than 30 years at Hyde Marine…

SAAM Records $14 Mln Profit in Q2

Aug 08, 2016

SAAM, provider of port services, logistics and towage in the Americas, said it has obtained earnings for $14.4 million in the April-June quarter of 2016, accumulating in the first semester a net income of $29 million, 26 percent higher than in the same period of the previous year…

Fidelis Group Holdings Names Kirchhofer VP of Marine Division

Aug 08, 2016

Fidelis Group Holdings, LLC (FGH), with its subsidiary Continental Underwriters, Ltd., has hired John Kirchhofer as Vice President of its Marine Division. In this position, Kirchhofer will be responsible for expanding the group's brown water…

Helen Delich Bentley Dies at 92

Aug 08, 2016

Helen Delich Bentley, a former journalist and a U.S. Republican congresswoman from Maryland who gained global attention by smashing Japanese goods to protest Tokyo's trade policies, died over the weekend at the age of 92, officials said. Bentley…

Phillips Joins Tatham Macinnes

Aug 08, 2016

Specialist maritime solicitor Tatham Macinnes LLP announced that Nick Phillips has joined the firm as a solicitor consultant. Phillips joins Tatham Macinnes from Hill Dickinson and has spent more than 30 years as a solicitor and partner…

Coast Guard leaders of US, Canada reinvest in Safety Agreement

Aug 07, 2016

Rear Adm. June E. Ryan, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Ninth District joined Assistant Commissioner Julie Gascon of the Canadian Coast Guard, Central and Arctic Region Friday in the midst of annual festivities at the Grand Haven, Michigan…

Three Rescued after their Boat Flips in Pamet Harbor

Aug 06, 2016

The Coast Guard rescued three people from the water after their boat overturned in Pamet Harbor, Massachusetts.At 3:15 p.m., the owner of a 14-foot aluminum boat reported to Coast Guard Station Provincetown watchstanders that he had lent his boat to three people…

Port of New Orleans CEO to Receive Eugene J. Schreiber Award

Aug 05, 2016

The World Trade Center of New Orleans announced this year’s recipient of the Eugene J. Schreiber Award as Gary LaGrange, President and CEO of the Port of New Orleans, who will be presented with the award at the annual Louisiana International Trade Gala on Friday…

IMCA’s New Videos Promote Safe Work Practices

Aug 05, 2016

Over a two year period, the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) will launch 15 short videos promoting safe working practices to complement the existing IMCA pocket cards, which will be revised at the same time. These are designed to cross all cultures…

Man Medevaced 90 miles East of Jacksonville

Aug 05, 2016

The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a man Thursday who sustained a head injury 90-miles east of Jacksonville.A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew medevaced the 33-year-old man from the vessel Eagle Texas.Coast…

US Navy Promotes First LDO Captain

Aug 05, 2016

Capt. David Garlinghouse has made Navy history by becoming the first Navy Reserve security limited duty officer (LDO) to achieve the rank of captain.Vice Adm. Dixon Smith, commander, Navy Installations Command (NIC), presided over the promotion ceremony…

Technip Recertified to Gender Equality Standards

Aug 04, 2016

Technip entities in Brazil, France and Italy have been recertified to the EDGE (Economic Dividends for Gender Equality) global standard for gender equality in the workplace, including the group’s headquarters and the Innovation and Technology center both located in Paris…

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