Today WCI applauded the leadership of Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Senate Energy & Water Development (E&WD) Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) for the 26-4 vote approving the FY 2016 appropriations bill that increases funding for the U…
Dan-Bunkering (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. Shanghai Rep. Office announced that as of May 1, 2015 Alex Qin has taken up the position of Chief Representative at the office in Shanghai. Qin started as a Bunker Trader at the company’s head office in Middelfart…
Inmarsat has provided an initial update on the launch schedule for Inmarsat-5 F3 (I-5 F3) following the failure of the preceding Proton Breeze M launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday 16 May.According to an announcement by Inmarsat’s launch partner…
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has received an order from DP World Australia to deliver two new Kalmar automatic stacking cranes (ASCs) for its semi-automated terminal in Brisbane. The cranes will join a fleet of 14 Kalmar ASCs at Fisherman Islands Terminal…
Dubai is set to remain at the epicenter of golf on The European Tour for the foreseeable future after global port operator DP World announced today that it will continue to be the title sponsor of the DP World Tour Championship, the season ending tournament of The Race to Dubai…
HSH Nordbank AG, the world’s second-largest financier of ships, plans to split off a 'bad bank' for non-performing shipping loans as part of a plan to create a sustainable business model, reports Reuters. The city of Hamburg was willing…
Navios Maritime Holdings, vertically integrated seaborne shipping and Logistics Company, slumped to a loss in the Q1 although the result beat by $0.10 per share the average estimate of analysts who had forecast red ink for the dry bulk company…
Transport consultant Drewry’s Carrier Performance Insight (CPI) for April records 67.6%, up by 4.1 percentage improvement on the previous month in the aggregate reliability of ships on the main Asia-Europe, transpacific and transatlantic trades…
European ports are real “multitaskers”: they combine different functions ranging from gateway to the world, nodes in the transport chain, hotspots for Europe’s industrial activity, safe and secure shelters, the link between Europe’s peripheral regions and islands to the mainland…
The National Marine Representatives Association (NMRA) is again offering its annual scholarships to students pursuing education in the maritime trades.Interested high school seniors, and college and vocational students can request an application from NMRA…
KPI Bridge Oil, a global broker and trader in marine bunkers, marine lubricants and risk management products, has appointed Daniel Chin as a Bunker & Lubricant Trader at its Seattle Office.Having worked as an oil trader in Korea as well as in Singapore and Pakistan…
Regional commercial real estate firm Berger Commercial Realty announced the $8.9 million purchase of Harbor Place, a 36,000-square-foot office building located at 1600 S.E. 17th St. in Fort Lauderdale, by Resolve Marine Group, a Fort Lauderdale…
Oil and gas workers in Britain's North Sea are to vote on strike action after unions and the Offshore Contractors' Association representing employers failed to reach an agreement on changes to working conditions.Trade unions GMB and Unite…
GAIL (India) Ltd has signed a preliminary deal with Royal Dutch Shell for the potential sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply sourced from its portfolio, made up of US production, says Reuters and local media reports. Gail, a Maharatna public sector company…
China Shipping Development (CSD) and Cosco have established a joint venture (JV), China Ore Shipping Pte., in Singapore to purchase four 400,000 dwt ore carriers from Vale and operate them. CSD and Cosco’s bulk shipping division Cosco Bulk…
