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Seanergy Maritime Receives NASDAQ Notice

Feb 05, 2015

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. announced yesterdat that it has received written notification from The Nasdaq Stock Market dated January 28, 2015, indicating that because the closing bid price of the Company’s common stock for 30 consecutive business days…

LR2 Product Tanker Joins Scorpio Tankers' Fleet

Feb 05, 2015

Scorpio Tankers Inc. today took delivery of STI Alexis, an LR2 product tanker from Daehan Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. This vessel will begin a voyage for 52 days at approximately $33,500 per day. The Company has also exercised an option to…

General Dynamics Helps Boost USN Network Capacity

Feb 05, 2015

General Dynamics’ four-channel Digital Modular Radios (DMR) are being upgraded with high-frequency dynamic routing (HFDR) software to turn the radio’s four channels into eight virtual channels. In addition to HFDR, the new high-frequency…

SENER’s FORAN System is 50

Feb 05, 2015

The FORAN System celebrates half a century in 2015. With 50 years of active service, FORAN is the longest standing CAD/CAM/CAE software on the market and a technological asset for the engineering and technology group SENER, which has placed…

Euronav’s $235m Maersk Venture

Feb 05, 2015

Euronav NV announces today that following the closing of its Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) of its ordinary shares on NYSE, the Company will repay the USD 235.5 million bond issued to partly finance the acquisition of 15 VLCCs from Maersk Tankers Singapore Pte Ltd announced on 5 January 2014…

MOL Car Carrier Rescues Drifting Fishermen

Feb 04, 2015

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced that on Sunday, February 1, 2015, the MOL-operated car carrier Astral Ace found drifting castaways near Malay Peninsula in the South China Sea, and was able to safely rescue two Malaysian and three Indonesian fishermen…

Harley Marine Installs Media Wall in Communications Center

Feb 04, 2015

Harley Marine Services recently installed an 8 by 6 meter industrial grade LCD screen in the communication center at the new Harley and Lela Franco Maritime Center in Seattle, WA. This state-of-the-art media wall provides a direct portal…

Eastern Shipbuilding Delivers TY Dolese

Feb 04, 2015

During the 2014/2015 Holiday Season, Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. delivered the M/V TY DOLESE (Hull 189) the 59th 90’ Inland Towboat to Florida Marine Transporters,Inc. of Mandeville, LA. for its ongoing new build program. Also, Florida…

Strategic Marine Launches New Vessel

Feb 04, 2015

Strategic Marine, a specialist shipbuilder for the oil & gas sector, today launched the Jati Seven, its first ever Offshore 40 Generation 3 crew boat being built for long term customer, Dinastia Jati.Dinastia Jati is a prominent oil and…

Maersk Lead Reliability Rankings

Feb 03, 2015

Maersk Line is ranked as the most reliable container shipping carriers last year, according to new research released this morning by industry analyst SeaIntel. Maersk and Hamburg Sud again topped the liner shipping reliability rankings…

Freedom of the Seas Revitalized

Feb 03, 2015

Re-emerging from a 24-day drydock at Grand Bahama Shipyard, Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas returned into service this weekend to offer vacationers one of the best cruise ships for incredible Caribbean’s adventures. The ship showcased its new features to more than 1…

Carimin Wins Petronas Spot Charter

Feb 02, 2015

Carimin Petroleum Berhad one of the leading providers of offshore oil and gas (O&G) support services in Malaysia, has received an umbrella contract for provision of spot charter marine vessel services from Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB)…

ABB Wins Contract from Chinese Shipyard

Feb 02, 2015

ABB announced that it will deliver advanced electrical propulsion systems for four LNG carriers under construction by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. The LNG vessels are a joint venture between China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)…

Jiangsu Hantong Bags Two Bulker Order

Feb 02, 2015

Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry Co., Ltd and Vulica Shipping Limited have entered into Shipbuilding Contracts for construction of two 68,000 metric tons deadweight Self Unloading Panamax Bulkcarriers. Hantong had built and delivered two 55…

Island Performer Ready for the US

Feb 02, 2015

The subsea vessel Island Performer has been upgraded for her next assignment in the US. Ulstein Verft has installed cargo tanks and corresponding piping, a switchboard room for deck equipment and the sea fastening frame for stacks, as well as platforms for the tower winches…

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