Posted to Maritime Musings
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Dennis Bryant)
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September 18, 2012
The brig USS Somers, launched in April 1842, was the second vessel of the United States Navy to bear that name. Like its predecessor, it was named in honor of Lieutenant Richard Somers (1778-1804) who died with his crew when the bomb ketch Intrepid…
Posted to Global Maritime Analysis with Joseph Keefe
(by
Joseph Keefe)
on
June 5, 2013
Outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood last month announced the members of the National Freight Advisory Committee (NFAC). The newly announced Advisory Committee will be comprised of 47 voting members from outside the Department of Transportation.
Posted to SCI takes delivery of another bulk carrier
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Joseph Fonseca)
on
May 22, 2013
The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (SCI) acquisition spree of new buildings continues. Just two days ago on 20 May 2013, it accepted delivery of a Kamsarmax bulk carrier, M. V. “Vishva Chetna”. This is the second vessel of the four Kamsarmax…
Posted to Global Maritime Analysis with Joseph Keefe
(by
Joseph Keefe)
on
May 8, 2013
Fully 6 months after winning a second term in office, President Obama has (finally) nominated a candidate for U.S. Secretary of Transportation to replace outgoing DOT Chief Ray LaHood. On April 29th, Anthony Foxx, the Mayor of Charlotte, N.C., was tapped for the role.
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
May 3, 2013
The barque Picton Castle is a commercial sail training vessel homeported in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and registered in the Cook Islands. It was built in Swansea, Wales in 1928 as a motorized fishing trawler and named for the local Welsh castle.
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
April 23, 2013
The lowly barnacle has intrigued and been detested by mariners from time immemorial. It is a small arthropod with a complex life cycle. Once the fertilized egg is released into the water by the female, it hatches into a nauplius – a one-eyed larva consisting of a head and a tail fan for locomotion.
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
April 2, 2013
On 2 April 1513 (500 years ago, for those who have lost count), a fleet of three Spanish ships commanded by Juan Ponce de León sighted land west of the Bahamas. He believed it to be another island and named it La Florida (the Flowery Isles) in recognition of its verdant landscape.
Posted to Far East Maritime
(by
Greg Knowler)
on
March 13, 2013
With 16 of 24 Kwai Tsing container terminal berths, the world’s biggest port operator has just Modern Terminals and one berth at CT3 to go before it can convert the entire Kwai Tsing container port into prime waterfront real estate when the sun inevitably sets on the Hong Kong box shipping business.
Posted to AEGIS’ first Liquid Terminal at Pipavav Port
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Joseph Fonseca)
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February 18, 2013
Aegis Group, leader in oil, gas and chemical logistics embarked last week on its major expansion project at Pipavav Port, Gujarat in Western India. It is setting up a bulk liquid and gas storage terminal for enhancing capacity by another 120,000 KL of bulk liquid and 2700 MT of gas.
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
February 1, 2013
Following the grounding of the conical drill unit (CDU) Kulluk on Sitkalidak Island, a number of environmental advocates have called for a ban on oil and gas drilling in Arctic waters. The argument is that such offshore drilling in a harsh environment…
Posted to Market expectations from DNV and GL merger
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Joseph Fonseca)
on
January 23, 2013
The recent announcement of the merger of the two classification societies Germanischer Lloyd (GL) and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) seems to have caused an unsettling effect on shipping companies, classification societiesand others related organizations.
Posted to for those in motion on the ocean
(by
Peter Ebbutt)
on
December 19, 2012
Stabilicube…tracks changes in stability as waves sweep thru, winds gust, liquids transfer via open cross connects, tanks slosh, cargo shifts, water is still trapped on deck, towline angles and tensions change. Stabilicube takes the guess work out of operations at sea.
Posted to Martin Rushmere
(by
Martin Rushmere)
on
November 30, 2012
Union shenanigans at Los Angeles/Long Beach serve up yet another depressing tale of the growing gap in efficiency and dedication between US and foreign ports. Having just toured the Port of Singapore, I can vouch for this firsthand. The best…
Posted to Far East Maritime
(by
Greg Knowler)
on
November 28, 2012
Way back in the mists of 2004, the government of Hong Kong released its Port Masterplan: 2020. The plan, compiled by consultants GHK, took a comprehensive look at the port and its needs over the next couple of decades. Naturally the government watered down the first draft…
Posted to Essar Shipping inducts two mini cape vessels
(by
Joseph Fonseca)
on
November 19, 2012
Essar Shipping Limited (ESL) today reported having taken delivery of two mini cape bulk carriers, m v Kishore and m v Ashok. These new builds are the last two mini cape vessels out of six that have been on order with STX (Dalian) Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., China.
Posted to Far East Maritime
(by
Greg Knowler)
on
October 25, 2012
China became known as the world’s factory by offering manufacturing costs that could not be matched by the developed nations. Its wages paid to uneducated rural migrant labour were a fraction of the mostly unionized pay required in the West, and land for factories was plentiful and cheap.
Posted to Marine Engineers’ Convention on overcoming economic meltdown
(by
Joseph Fonseca)
on
September 24, 2012
It is incredible that the two-day 26th National Convention of Marine Engineers finally took place in Mumbai, (Navi Mumbai to be exact) over the past weekend on 22 and 23 September 2012. It is in fact the first time in several years that Mumbai was selected as the venue of this convention.
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