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Bishop Lifting Acquires Delta Rigging & Tools

Mar 28, 2014

SBP Holdings, through its wholly owned subsidiary Bishop Lifting Products, has completed the acquisition of Delta Rigging & Tools headquartered in Houston, Texas.Bishop Lifting Products and Delta Rigging & Tools specialize in the fabrication and distribution of slings…

Faurisson Joins Heidmar Products Desk

Mar 17, 2014

Heidmar announced that Olivier Faurisson will join the company as Managing Director of Chartering and Marketing in the product sector.  Faurisson has experience in product chartering and pool building. He rose to the title of General Manager…

BMT SMART Appoints McKelvie Product Manager

Mar 05, 2014

BMT SMART Ltd. (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd., an international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, announced the appointment of Laura McKelvie as Product Manager.A University of Southampton graduate in Naval Architecture…

Marine Manufacturers find ... "There’s an APP for that"

Jan 09, 2014

Marine product providers turn to high tech tools to enhance service, information and – yes – their bottom lines.There’s an APP for that. You’ve heard it before and in many contexts. Increasingly, the global waterfront is getting into the act…

Shea Delivers Precast Floating Docks to Marina

May 29, 2013

Shea Concrete Products delivers 40 precast floating docks to Lynn’s Seaport Landing Marina in Lynn, MA.Altogether, Shea Concrete Products manufactured 14 main docks and 28 dock fingers, with the largest main dock at 9ft wide by 50ft long, and weighing over 50…

HydraTech Opens Houston Office

Apr 19, 2013

The new sales office is stocked with pipeline remediation products to facilitate quicker service to HydraTech’s oil & gas industry customers in the Gulf region.“Today, our most popular product in the Gulf region is our HydraWrap®,” said Peter Blais…

Teekay Tankers Order Four Tankships from Korean Yard

Apr 08, 2013

Teekay Tankers orders 4 LR2 product tankships from STX Offshore & Shipbuilding with options for 12 more.The agreement is for STX of South Korea to construct four  fuel-efficient 113,000 dwt Long Range 2 (LR2) product tanker newbuildings for a fully built-up cost of approximately $47-million each…

Greece's Navios to Buy 5 Product Tankships

Apr 04, 2013

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corp. to acquire 5  MR2 Product Tankers wth options for two more.The company which owns and operates tanker vessels, announce that it agreed to acquire five MR2 product tankers for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $143…

Scorpio Tankers Ink Six Newbuilding Contracts

Feb 28, 2013

Scorpio Tankers exercise options with Korea's Hyundai Mipo Dockard for altogether six new tankships.The contracts are for the construction of four MR Product tankers for approximately $33.0 million each and two Handymax ice class-1A (37,000 DWT) product tankers for approximately $31…

Laborde Builds up Industrial Sales Team

Feb 25, 2013

Helping round out its industrial salesforce, Laborde Products welcomes two new salesmen.   Cody Dean will handle industrial engine and equipment sales in southern Louisiana and southern Mississippi, while Chris Wright will respond to the needs of northern Louisiana and northern Mississippi…

SKH Product Counterfeiter Sentenced

Feb 12, 2013

Swedish court rules for criminal conviction in SKF counterfeit court case.A Swedish court has sentenced one person to a one-year jail term and a five-year ban from trade, and awarded damages to SKF, after finding him guilty of violation of Swedish trademark law in relation to the SKF trademark…

Thrane & Thrane to Trade as Cobham SATCOM

Nov 02, 2012

Cobham plc has established a new strategic business unit (SBU) Cobham SATCOM: Thrane & Thrane will form its core.Headquartered in Denmark, Cobham SATCOM is led by Thrane & Thrane CEO Walther Thygesen with assistance from a multinational management team…

U.S. Shipyard Delivers Tankship to Crowley

Aug 31, 2012

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard delivers its first Veteran-class MT-46 product tanker to Crowley Maritime Corp.This is the thirteenth product tanker that the shipyard has completed and the seventeenth vessel overall. The product tankers are 600 feet long and have a cargo capacity of 46…

Marine Products Corp Reports Successful Q2 2012 Financial Results

Jul 26, 2012

U.S. based Marine Products Corporation release its unaudited results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012.Marine Products is a leading manufacturer of fiberglass boats under two brand names: sterndrive and inboard pleasure boats by Chaparral…

Trinity Marine Products Appoint Executives

Jul 19, 2012

Trinity Marine Products, Inc., a subsidiary of Trinity Industries, Inc. announce two new executive appointmentsTom Faherty has been promoted to President of Trinity Marine Products, replacing Paul Mauer, now Chief Operations Officer for TrinityRail…

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