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Kawasaki Robots in TRANSFORMERS 4 Movie!

Aug 11, 2014

If you've seen the fourth installment of the Transformers film series - Transformers: Age of Extinction - you may have noticed some star turns from the other 'transformer' robots. All told, 13 Kawasaki robots - four different models from two different series - make appearances in the film…

OneSubsea, Helix and Schlumberger to Form Alliance

Aug 11, 2014

OneSubsea™, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. and Schlumberger today announced that they have entered into a letter of intent to form an alliance to develop technologies and deliver services to optimize…

Seward & Kissel Strengthens with Addition of Partner

Aug 11, 2014

Evolving Needs of Private Equity Clients Inspire Move. Seward & Kissel LLP has announced  that veteran finance attorney John Imhof has joined the firm’s leading Maritime and Transportation Finance practice in New York.Mr. Imhof, who comes to Seward & Kissel from Watson…

Kinder Morgan Bonds Rally on Merger News

Aug 11, 2014

Bonds of oil and gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan Inc rallied Monday on expectations that its credit ratings would be boosted to investment-grade following a US$70bn deal to bring all of its publicly traded units into one group.Kinder Morgan's 5% February 2021 bonds jumped to 107 from 101…

Artemus Transporation Solutions Hold 3rd Training Course

Aug 11, 2014

Artemus  Transportation Solutions will be holding its Global Commerce- International Transportation & Trade Shipping 101 Course on September 15-19 in the Seattle-Tacoma area. This is the third time the Shipping 101 course will be hosted by the Marine Exchange of Puget Sound in Seattle/Tacoma…

Port of Pittsburgh Taps Martinko as Executive Director

Aug 11, 2014

The Port of Pittsburgh Commission (PPC) announced today that Mr. Stephen Martinko will be the Commission's new executive director.Since January, 2013, Martinko has been the deputy staff director of the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation…

Dryad Maritime: Ocean Ambush “Game Changer”

Aug 11, 2014

In the early hours of Saturday 9th August 2014, the radar of a product tanker transiting south, 200 nautical miles off the Nigerian shoreline detected a probable pirate mother ship lying in wait close to its track. Shortly after detecting the vessel…

Jee Enhances Online Training Platform

Aug 11, 2014

Jee Ltd has upgraded its state-of-the-art online training site to enhance its online and blended learning offering to the oil, gas and renewables industries. Jenny Matthew, Head of Courses at Jee said: “The oil and gas industry is calling…

Germany's Bilfinger Cuts Costs after CEO Exit

Aug 11, 2014

Q2 group adjusted EBITA 65 mln euros vs 93 mln last year. Power division EBITA drops to 9 mln euros; shares up 4.9 pct, top performer on MDAX. German industrial services group Bilfinger, whose chief executive resigned last week after two profit warnings…

BMT WBM Supports AQUIS Great Barrier Reef Resort Project

Aug 11, 2014

BMT WBM (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has provided critical inputs to the Environment Impact Statement (EIS), in the areas of flooding, water quality and coastal processes for the A$ 8…

New Deep-Sea Trend in African Piracy?

Aug 11, 2014

Dryad Maritime COO Ian Millen
 tells of an audacious open-ocean ambush of a product tanker in Gulf of Guinea and wonders if this attack heralds a new trend in offshore African piracy, as follows:'In the early hours of Saturday 9th August,…

DHS Selects Stevens Institute for Maritime Research

Aug 10, 2014

Stevens Institute of Technology has been selected as the lead institution for a new Center of Excellence for Maritime Research (CMR). The selection, announced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T)…

USCG R&D Team Up Agencies for Arctic Awareness

Aug 10, 2014

For a second year, members of the Coast Guard Research and Development Center, based in New London, Connecticut, make their way to the large ice floes of the Arctic Ocean to conduct research and test new equipment and technologies with the aim…

HMAS Tobruk Completes Philippines Visit

Aug 10, 2014

Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Tobruk has departed Manila in the Philippines after a four-day visit.The short break gave the ship’s company an opportunity to continue their association with Filipino colleagues.Tobruk’s Commanding Officer…

Big Month for VT Halter’s Hornbeck OSV Series

Aug 08, 2014

VT Halter Marine launches one, christens one and delivers two for Hornbeck Offshore OSV programVT Halter Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc., announced four separate shipbuilding milestones for the Offshore Supply…

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