The life of a seafarer is full of challenges. Staying away from family for months together and working in hostile environmental conditions, difficulties that no one knows better than the seafarers themselves. Equally challenging is the role of the women which includes the mothers…
Inland navigation has a lot of potential in the Baltic Sea Region, even though the geographical and administrative conditions for inland navigation differ from country to country. This was highlighted by the panel that debated the future of…
Governor Terry R. McAuliffe announced that The Port of Virginia will finalize the $217 million contract with Konecranes for that company to build and deliver 86 specialized cranes that will be at the center of the port’s expansion projects at…
An audience of lawyers and academics have heard that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) gives a clear mandate for IMO to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment from or through the atmosphere and to address climate change…
GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd has appointed C Krishnakumar as the General Manager, Logistics Services for its Chennai office to take care of the growing logistics demand in the South India market, with a primary focus on the pharmaceutical and automotive industries…
IBIA’s Chief Executive Hall to RetirCaptain Peter Hall, Chief Executive of the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) will retire after three years in the role. The announcement follows Hall’s coordination of one of IBIA’s best annual conventions ever…
Sulphur businessman Joseph R. “Dick” Kennison was reelected for a one year term as president of the West Calcasieu Port board of commissioners during the port board’s October monthly meeting. The five-member board also re-elected Wilmer…
Jonathan Crossland has been appointed as the new Business Operations Director of Landau UK, specialists in delivering installations and retrofits of equipment and systems to all leisure and commercial marine vessels. Crossland will be responsible…
An informational seminar will cover “everything ballast water”, from regulations and implementation requirements under the U.S. Coast Guard regulations to the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention. The one-day symposium, to be held by Hyde…
The board of directors of the Chamber of Marine Commerce (CMC) has appointed Bruce R. Burrows as President, effective December 1, 2016. Burrows joins the Chamber as the bi-national industry association enters a new chapter, having recently…
October container volumes were down 6.2 percent at the Port of Long Beach compared to the same month last year, as the fallout from the Hanjin bankruptcy continues to settle.According to the port, a total of 581,808 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) moved through docks last month…
Silverstream Technologies, makes of air lubrication technology for the shipping industry, signed a contract with a major cruise line to retrofit its proprietary Silverstream System on one of its vessels. The Silverstream System will be retrofitted onto the vessel in 2017…
Kevin Hawes has started at Seattle-based maritime services company and consultancy The Maritime Group (TMG) International Ltd., as Business Development Manager and Senior Consultant.Based at TMG’s London office at Victoria Embankment, he…
Hunter Maritime Acquisition Corp. announced the commencement of its initial public offering of 15,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit. Each unit consists of one Class A common share of the company and one-half of one warrant, each whole…
On the eve of the Offshore Decommissioning Conference 2016, Decom North Sea, the offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum held its seventh Annual General Meeting in St Andrews. Last night (14th November), the AGM saw eight new board directors…
