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Tidewater Logs 1Q 2016 Loss

Aug 11, 2015

Tidewater Inc. announced today a first quarter net loss for the period ended June 30, 2015, of $15.1 million, or $0.32 per common share, on revenues of $304.8 million. For the same quarter last year, net earnings were $43.7 million, or $0…

Kinder Morgan Buys Four Newbuilding Resales

Aug 11, 2015

Kinder Morgan, Inc. is expanding its growing fleet of Jones Act product tankers having signed a definitive agreement valued at an all-in price of $568 million with Philly Tankers LLC to take assignment of contracts for the construction of four…

Evergreen Orders Ten Boxships

Aug 11, 2015

Evergreen Group signed an agreement with CSBC Corporation, Taiwan to build ten 2,800 TEU class B-type vessels. Witnessed by Evergreen Group's Second Vice Group Chairman Bronson Hsieh, the contracts were signed by EMC Chairman Anchor Chang and CSBC Chairman Sun-Quae Lai…

G E Shipping to Sell New Building Dry Bulker

Aug 11, 2015

The Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd. (G E Shipping) signed a contract to sell, a new building Kamsarmax Dry Bulk Carrier “Jag Aakash” (81,600 dwt). The vessel is being built at Tsuneishi Heavy Industries (Cebu) Inc., Philippines and will be delivered to the company in August/September 2015…

Mercury Marine Names Dauchy Chief Marketing Officer

Aug 10, 2015

Mercury Marine announced the addition of Michelle Dauchy as Chief Marketing Officer. Dauchy has nearly two decades of global marketing experience with S.C. Johnson, managing brands and P&Ls in more than 15 business segments across 80 countries…

Virtual Crane Helps Liverpool Prep for Mega Ships

Aug 10, 2015

£500k investment in technology set to deliver world class operator training as Peel Ports prepares for mega ships at the Port of Liverpool In anticipation of the arrival of five of the world’s largest cranes at the Port of Liverpool this autumn…

Videotel Supports CIC For Enclosed Spaces

Aug 10, 2015

Videotel, the leading international provider of e-Learning maritime training programs and a company of KVH Industries, Inc., has backed the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on crew familiarization for enclosed space entry recently launched by the maritime authorities of Tokyo and Paris…

Kobelt Acquires Accu-Steer

Aug 09, 2015

Manufacturer of quality hydraulic steering actuators will join Kobelt to expand marine system offerings.Kobelt announced today the acquisition of Accu-Steer Inc., a US-based manufacturer of quality Hydraulic Steering Actuators.Founded by Bill Pulse and Paul Barber in 1993…

Hong Kong Issues Note on Container Handling Safety

Aug 08, 2015

Hong Kong’s Marine Department has issued a reminder about safe handling of containers following the investigation into the death of a sailor on board a container vessel during cargo unloading operations.The incident occurred while containers…

AMSA Relaxes Rules for First Aid Supplies

Aug 07, 2015

If you are operating in Class C, C Restricted, D or E waters, and are required to meet the National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) Part C7A (Safety Equipment), you now have flexibility to determine the type and quantity of first aid supplies that are appropriate for your operation…

Russian Arctic Scientists to be Evacuated

Aug 07, 2015

An icebreaker sailed from Murmansk yesterday to pick up 17 scientists after four months on an ice floe near the North Pole.The icebreaker “Kapitan Dranitsyn” left Murmansk on August 4th to pick up equipment and personnel from the floating research station “North Pole-2015”…

EMGS Bags Malaysian Award for BOA Thalassa

Aug 07, 2015

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a letter of award (LOA) for a contract worth approximately USD 4.2 million from an oil company for 3D EM data acquisition over their operated area in Malaysia. The two parties have entered into a two-year contract…

JV for 3D seismic in Arctic

Aug 07, 2015

Paris-listed seismic giant CGG and Russia's largest shipowner, SCF Group (Sovcomflot), have formally registered a joint-venture company focused on coldwater  surveys, reports Interfax. The joint venture, to be called Arctic Geophysical Exploration (AGE)…

Incat Designs Dive Vessel for Down Under Cruise & Dive

Aug 06, 2015

Incat Crowther has entered into a contract to design a 33m Catamaran Dive Vessel for Down Under Cruise & Dive of Cairns, Australia. Construction of the vessel is well underway at Marine Engineering Consultants on Queensland’s Gold Coast.Incat…

Wärtsilä to Power First Dual-Fuelled Dredger

Aug 06, 2015

A new generation 'Antigoon' class dredger, called Scheldt River, being built by Royal IHC in the Netherlands on behalf of the Belgium based DEME Group, is to be powered by Wärtsilä dual-fuel (DF) engines. This will be the first ever dredger…

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