BIMCO encourages members to take part in the next free event organised by the Young Professionals in Shipping Network (YPSN) in Shanghai on 15 January 2015.BIMCO fully supports YPSN’s aim to hold events to help young professionals meet their industry peers…
The Coast Guard is supporting the Hawaii County Fire Department in the search for a missing passenger from a grounded sailboat near Kaupuleu, Hawai'i, Sunday.Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Honolulu received notification at 6:36 a…
Bergen-based Gearbulk said the Bulk Jupiter en route from Malaysia to China has sunk off Vietnam with only one man known to have survived.A Norwegian cargo vessel has sunk off Vietnam. Bergen-based Gearbulk says only one of the 19 Filipino crew members was known to have survived…
China's Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has entered into 13 shipbuilding orders in the fourth quarter of 2014, of which nine were effective orders with a total contract value of US$388 million, brining total orders for 2014 to a record US$1.8 billion Singapore…
India government-owned Mormugao has lined up ambitious approx $500 million projects that include capacity augmentation schemes as part of its expansion plans.Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), the Centre-government owned major port at Goa has plans to award nine major projects for expansion…
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is delivering four of its latest generation Gloria reachstackers to International Container Terminal Services Inc Group (ICTSI). The 45 tonne capacity units are the first operational in the Asia-Pacific territory…
Can pain in the China's ship building industry the gain for South Korea? Will 2015 save Korea's major shipbuilders which had a pretty tough time in 2014?Korea's major shipbuilders had a pretty tough time in 2014. Out of the country's three major players…
Magnolia LNG LLC (MLNG), wholly owned subsidiary of Liquefied Natural Gas Limited executed a Technical Services Agreement (TSA) with Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR, Inc. (KBR) to undertake cost verification and provide other services supporting MLNG project delivery…
Abu Dhabi, one of the most spectacular stopovers, after hosting Volvo Ocean Race for the second time from December 12, 2014 until January 3, 2015, waved farewell to the Race fleet as they set sail for the third leg to China.Ocean Racing led…
Haifa port is about to be transformed and upgraded into a beautiful new set of centers to include an entertainment zone, a commercial zone and links to the city’s beaches, according to a report on www.haaretz.com.The National Planning and…
Republicans take full control of the U.S. Congress this week with an agenda of trying to force approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and push back on President Barack Obama's sweeping policy shifts on Cuba and immigration.After years of battles over the budget and other issues…
Kvaerner North American Construction Inc. (a subsidiary of Kvaerner) has executed agreements today, with each of Longview Power, LLC, Siemens Energy Inc. and others regarding the disputes between them in both the arbitration proceedings concerning…
USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) arrived in the search area on Jan. 3, 2015 and has commenced search efforts for Air Asia flight QZ8501 at the request of the Indonesian government. It is the second US Naval Ship to join in the search.Seen the picture…
The search for eight crew missing from the cement carrier, ‘Cemfjord’ which capsized and sank in the Pentland Firth has been suspended this evening, with no sign found of the missing crew.The lifeboats completed their search areas earlier this afternoon and returned to shore…
E-navigation specialist NAVTOR has set course for Asia, with the news that the Egersund, Norway-based business has opened an office in Singapore. The move comes in response to growing regional demand for simple, efficient and cost effective ENC distribution solutions…
