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Crowley Accord Acquires MMS

May 19, 2015

Crowley Maritime Corp. acquired Seattle-based Maritime Management Services, Inc. (MMS), a company with more than a decade’s worth of experience in crew management for offshore oil and gas vessels primarily in the U.S. Gulf, Singapore and Gulf of Mexico…

Indian Prime Minister Visits HHI

May 19, 2015

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi visited Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), seeking increased partnership between the India’s shipbuilding industry and HHI. HHI is reportedly the only Korean company the prime minister visits during his two-day stay in the country…

AXSMarine Upgrades Tanker Broker Software

May 19, 2015

AXSMarine has launched an upgrade to AXSTanker – commonly known as AXSTanker4.0, a software solution for competitive shipbrokers in the Crude, Clean, Gas, Chemical and Product tanker space.Within the AXSTanker community, brokers have the option…

Unmanned FLNG: ‘The Future of LNG Technology’

May 19, 2015

DNV GL has developed a new unmanned floating LNG concept that it says overcomes many of the challenges currently faced by those looking to unlock the potential of remote offshore gas fields. Called Solitude, the concept demonstrates how…

SeaKeeper For Center Consoles

May 19, 2015

The Contender 35 ST made a splash by becoming Seakeeper's new demo boat and the first vessel to have a Seakeeper 3DC - the first battery-powered Seakeeper. While sea trialing in the ultimate weather conditions - 3 foot significant wave height…

No Leakage from NYK Tanker in Tokyo Bay

May 19, 2015

On May 16 (Saturday) and 17 (Sunday), a few media outlets reported that crude oil had leaked from Takamine, a tanker operated by NYK Line, while the ship was discharging at JST 9:28 p.m. on May 15 (Friday) at Keihin Kawasaki sea berth (Kawasaki…

RV Polarstern Sets Course for Spitsbergen

May 19, 2015

On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)…

Profit Quadruples for CMA CGM

May 19, 2015

French container line CMA CGM’s consolidated net profit soared to $406 million in the first quarter from $97 million a year ago as the French carrier capitalized on efficiency gains, cost cuts and sharply lower bunker prices. Net profit…

FairfieldNodal Recruits New Sales Manager

May 18, 2015

Ronnie Grimberg has joined the FairfieldNodal as sales manager for Central and South America, bringing with him 17 years of experience in the seismic industry, most recently as the regional marketing and sales manager for North and South America for Dolphin Geophysical…

Rolls-Royce Marine Unit to Cut 600 Jobs

May 18, 2015

British engineering group Rolls-Royce (RR.L) said it would cut 600 jobs in its Norwegian-focused marine business in response to the lower oil price, a move it said would have a 'broadly neutral' impact on 2015 profits. Rolls-Royce is in…

WPT Power Appoints Engineering Manager

May 18, 2015

Robert De Hoyos has joined WPT Power Corporation as the company’s new engineering manager, bringing to the post 21 years of manufacturing experience as a mechanical engineer. De Hoyos’ expertise is in new product design, drawing and routing…

Unithai Shipyard Awarded 2,000th Ship Repair Order

May 18, 2015

Unithai Shipyard was recently awarded its 2,000th contract for repairing a vessel in dry dock. The largest shipyard in Thailand, Unithai performs an average of 100 vessel repairs per year, recording its 1,000th repair order in 2006. And if repair operations afloat are also tallied…

Satellite Services Donated for Nepal Relief Efforts

May 18, 2015

April 25's 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal and subsequent aftershocks have disrupted last mile communications to communities with millions of people needing medical and other relief support. Intelsat has donated its satellite services to two…

Prepare for Growth, Oil Industry Told

May 18, 2015

The North Sea oil and gas industry has been urged to buck the trend and prepare for growth in the near future. Attendees at an event organized by subsea intervention and commercial diving specialists K.D. Marine in Aberdeen recently, heard an upswing in oil price was imminent and…

MAST COO Comments on Security in Libya

May 18, 2015

Gerry Northwood OBE, COO of a  maritime security company MAST, commented this morning on BBC Radio 5 on the security situation in Libya and the EU foreign and defence ministers' plans to seize boats of migrant traffickers before they go out to sea…

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