Three new appointments announced as recruitment drive to support expanding customer base continues.Dynamic Oil Trading has announced a series of appointments at the company’s recently launched Dubai office, amid continued expansion of the firm’s Middle East operation…
Hapag-Lloyd mourns the loss of former Executive Board chairman Hans Jakob Kruse, who led the company from 1973 until 1993.On February 4, Hans Jakob Kruse died in Hamburg at the age of 84. He was the chairman of the Hapag-Lloyd Executive Board for two decades from 1973 until 1993…
ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda) has made a donation of desks, uniforms and educational materials to the ZP Primary School (Takwe-Khurd, Maharashtra) near the Indian capital Mumbai, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility activities in India…
Marine transport advisors, McQuilling Services, give an insight into how they forecast the development of tanker demand, which is a constituent part of their recently published '2014-2018 Tanker Market Outlook' report.At a global level, marine transportation demand is related to world trade…
Ellicott Dredge Enterprises announced two personnel changes to its senior management team.Gert de Vries has joined as Senior Director of Engineering, in which capacity he will be supporting the engineering departments of all of Ellicott's brands…
Seafarers & International House will hold its 14th annual Setting the Course awards banquet the at the New York Athletic Club on Tuesday evening, April 22, 2014 to honor Donald J. Marcus, Edward R. Morgan and Captain Richard P. Phillips as the 2014 Outstanding Friends of Seafarers…
From office equipment and furniture, to single-family homes, the U.S. Government periodically auctions property it no longer needs. In doing so, it makes money from aging Federal assets that can be used to better serve the American people. So what does the Government do with a 450-ft long…
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) announced the establishment of a Global Ports Committee as well as new regional committees in the Americas, Australasia and Asia in addition to the regional committee already operating in Europe…
TITAN Salvage and the Entire TITAN - Micoperi Project Team Regret the Passing of Israel Moreno, Diver on the Costa Concordia ProjectTITAN Salvage and the entire TITAN - Micoperi project team have been deeply saddened by the loss of Diver Israel Moreno while working on the Costa Concordia wreck…
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP is pleased to announce that Peter J. Livingston and Jeffrey D. Smith joined the firm as partners in the firm’s Corporate and Litigation Departments, respectively. Each brings to Honigman more than 30 years of experience…
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and International Shipholding Corp. President Erik L. Johnsen announced the company will relocate its corporate headquarters from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans, where the business was founded in 1947. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ISH…
Dan-Bunkering (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. announced that as of February 1, 2014, Morten Mortensen has been employed as Sales Manager. Morten Mortensen has spent the past eight years working for a large Danish shipping company and prior to that…
Marine transport advisors, McQuilling Services recently released its 2014-2018 Tanker Market Outlook that forecasts spot freight rates across eight tanker classes and 13 major trading routes. This year’s edition also includes a forecast of asset prices over the same period for newbuilding…
Cokie Roberts, best-selling author and award-winning journalist, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the 2014 annual conference of WTS International, the association for the professional advancement of women in transportation that will take place May 14-16…
The ACP demanded today that Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the consortium in charge of the construction of the third set of locks, resume work on the project as required by the contract. GUPC is formed by the companies Sacyr Vallehermoso…