Resilience is defined generally as the ability to recover quickly from setbacks. Setbacks are inevitable. Individuals and entities are best judged by their resilience – their ability to get back on track after experiencing a reversal. The…
Rail transport activists, analysts and environmentalists get a real taste of what the waterfront has endured for decades. They’ll just have to get in line with the rest of us. This week finds the collective domestic oil industry wringing…
Safety and Survival Systems International Ltd (3Si), has announced the acquisition of International Safety Products Ltd (ISP), one of the world’s leading lifejacket manufacturers and supplier of safety products and personal protection equipment…
Greene’s Energy Group, LLC (GEG), a leading provider of integrated testing, rentals and specialty services, has reached its corporate goal of one million consecutive safe work hours. “I am pleased to announce that on March 16, 2015, we reached this important milestone…
GOST (Global Ocean Security Technologies), will highlight its newest recreational marine products at the 2015 Palm Beach International Boat Show in Palm Beach, Florida, March 26-29.The company said it will highlight its GOST Watch HD H2O video surveillance system…
Too many times, we are simply not aware of what we do not know. That said; if the first quarter of 2015 brings only one thing into crystal clear focus, then that would probably involve the reality that the human element of maritime operations…
Coast Guard crews rescued two fishermen from a sinking vessel 10 miles south of Newport, Rhode Island, Monday.At approximately noon, the two person crew of the 38-foot fishing boat More Misery notified watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England in Woods Hole…
The fishing vessel industry fatality rate is 30 times higher than the average of all U.S. industries. To address this, U.S. legislation requires that all new fishing vessels larger than 50 feet must be built to classification rules. DNV GL is…
Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) has been fined $55,000 and ordered to pay $25,000 in reparation to a stevedore who suffered serious injuries unloading a containership at the port in January 2014, Maritime New Zealand Media reported. POAL admitted…
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced the graduation of 105 students in the fourth class of the '3rd Year Program,' which MOL introduced with the goal of developing crewmembers who will uphold strict safety standards in vessel operation…
Pilotage service providers who wish to perform transit pilotage assignments in Danish territorial waters of Oeresund and the Great Belt during the years 2016–2019 can apply for authorisation at the Danish Maritime Authority. Closing date is 1 May 2015…
Captain who rescued hundreds of refugees in Mediterranean to recount experience at CMA Conference Captain Joshua Bhatt is a featured speaker at the Connecticut Maritime Association’s Shipping 2015 Conference in Stamford at the Hilton Stamford Hotel in the Harbor Point Room (Lobby Level)…
Ghanaian navy sailors joined a German navy maritime interdiction operations (MIO) team and a U.S. Navy medical trainer for three days of maritime security training at Naval Base Tema, Ghana, ending March 18, 2015.The training took place…
A new diesel generator simulator has been delivered to Pearl Harbor naval facilities by the TechSolutions program at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), officials at ONR announced March 18. High-fidelity 3D software will allow Sailors…
For the 2014 financial year, VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S has again managed to lift both its top and bottom line to record levels. Turnover grew 7 percent to DKK 1.728 billion, and pre-tax profits reached DKK 183.7 million – an increase of 30 percent…
