Interferry CEO Len Roueche reviews the latest regulatory challenges impacting the ferry industry. With U.S. origins dating back more than 40 years, Interferry is the trade association and main voice for the global ferry sector – a crucial but often forgotten part of the wider shipping industry…
Dave Anderson is the President of the Passenger Vessel Association (PVA). He also serves as General Manager/Director of Operations of Fire Island Ferries, Inc., Bay Shore, N.Y. on Long Island. The company has provided passenger service, freight…
The New Year finds all of us taking ‘last line’ from the safety of a protected berth and proceeding full ahead on the next voyage (number 2016). This trip begins with many unanswered questions and an equal number of uncertainties. In maritime nomenclature…
The Marine Training Institute (TMTI), a division of Beier Radio, LLC, offers a five-day U.S. Coast Guard-approved “Leadership and Managerial Skills” course at its Gray, La., campus. The Leadership and Managerial Skills course covers leadership…
The San Jacinto College Maritime Technology and Training Center on the Maritime Campus is now open for maritime training along the Port of Houston. Located at 3700 Old State Highway 146 in La Porte, Texas, the 45,000-square-foot Maritime…
Merger creates significant opportunities for candidates, clients and contractors. Air Energi Group Limited and Swift Worldwide Resources Limited have merged to form Airswift Holdings Limited, a $1.2bn turnover company specialising in global workforce solutions for the energy…
Dragflow recently supplied a Remote controlled dredge for an harbor dredging project in Marina Sveva (Italy). The problem: Due to the sea currents caused by a dam, too much sand sedimentation occurred along the inside harbor. So the sea bed was frequently raised…
Jim Brown, a ubiquitous figure in the global maritime coatings world for decades as the Market Development Manager of AkzoNobel’s Marine Coating’s brand, International, announced he is retiring effective the end of January 2016.
Yvonne van der Laan will commence her duties as Director of Process Industry & Bulk Goods at the Port of Rotterdam Authority starting February 1, 2016. Van der Laan will succeed Bas Hennissen, who left in 2015. She brings to the role more…
In step with the increased level of information flowing into a ship’s bridge, so too has evolved the means and method to display this information in an ergonomic and reasonable manner. Coming in 2016 from Hatteland – a company which recently…
The 175 million GT, ‘A’ rated North P&I Club has joined forces with the Shipowners’ Club to publish a technical loss prevention briefing on how to minimize potentially lethal gas risks arising from poor operation and maintenance of refrigeration systems on fishing vessels…
The U.S. Coast Guard will conduct a public Marine Board of Investigation hearing into the loss of the United States-flagged steam ship EL FARO, and its 33 crewmembers. The first hearing session will focus on the pre-accident historical events relating to the loss…
The Coast Guard yesterday responded to a barge breakaway at mile marker 501.6 near Greenville, Mississippi.The tow vessel Big J.O. struck the bank of the Mississippi River, resulting in four empty barges and two barges loaded with urea ammonium nitrate breaking loose…
Press release - KPI Bridge Oil, a trader and broker in marine fuels, marine lubricants and risk management products, has launched its anticipated brand refresh.The refreshed brand delivers the company’s new tagline ‘responsive maritime…
Norwegian oil major Statoil expects to have between 20,700 and 21,000 employees and consultants working for it by the end of 2016, down from 25,500 at the height of the crude price boom, the company said on Tuesday.'This corresponds to a…
