Harkand, the international subsea inspection, repair, maintenance and light construction group, has appointed Deborah Stevenson as the company’s new chief financial officer.A former CFO of both private equity-backed and FTSE 250 businesses in engineering and asset rich companies…
From May 1, 2013 Kasper Rosenberg has been employed as Bunker Trader. He will be a part of the sales department in the company’s head office in Middelfart, Denmark, which currently consists of 24 traders with different nationalities.Kasper has previously been working with shipping and agency…
Maersk Container Industry has joined the United Nations' SAVE FOOD Initiative to help make international food logistics more efficient.'Food should not be wasted, but too often it is, and we believe our technologies can help improve the food logistics chain…
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by Arklow Shipping to upgrade 12 container vessels with VisionMaster FT Electronic Chart Display & Information Systems (ECDIS).Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit will install all of the systems by the end of 2014…
A new commander of Coast Guard units in the Houston-Galveston area & Captain of the Port in those areas has relieved his predecessor during a change-of-command ceremony in Clear Lake.Capt. Brian Penoyer relieved Capt. James Whitehead, who is retiring from the Coast Guard after 26 years of service…
A fire aboard aircraft carrier 'USS Nimitz' (CVN 68) in the ship's electrical equipment was quickly extinguished by the ship's underway fire-fighting team.No Sailors were injured during the event or the response, and the ship and embarked air wing remain operable and in a safe…
The UK P&I Club issue information for members whose vessels call at the remote Alaskan port on the Arctic Circle.Red Dog is a port established specifically to support the associated Lead and Zinc mine. It is a very remote location of Alaska and there are no services…
Sir Roger Carr will join the Board as a non-executive director & Chairman designate on 1 October 2013 and will succeed Dick Olver as Chairman in the first quarter 2014, following a transition period.Sir Roger, 66, is currently Chairman of Centrica plc and was until recently President of the CBI…
Twenty-seven people were treated in hospital after the amphibious tourist craft sank in Liverpool's Albert Dock.Yellow Duckmarine issued the following statement:'Following the incident involving Quacker 1, we are working closely with our regulatory body…
Scana Industrier ASA has through its subsidiary Scana Offshore Vestby, been awarded a Variation to the contract for delivery of Mooring Winches to Dana Petroleum.The contract is for the delivery of Mooring Winches to Dana Petroleum…
Further ordering activity seen in the tanker market in the period up to 10, June 2013, according to Clarkson Hellas Weekly S+P report.Clients of Consolidated Marine Management have contracted three firm 115,000 DWT LR2s at Hyundai Samho. Understood to have been signed earlier this year…
The Port of Los Angeles has released its May 2013 cargo volumes. May overall volumes decreased 12.9 percent compared to May 2012. The decrease was due in part to a vessel service that shifted out of the Port of Los Angeles. Imports dropped 12 percent…
The National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) plans to issue a research announcement in August, 2013 & in the meantime issues this pre-solicitation notice in order to facilitate teaming arrangements.In making this announcement NSRP aims…
The first cargo was sold to Angola's state oil & gas company and is currently being shipped to Brazil by the LNG carrier 'SS Sonangol Sambizanga', one of seven 160,000 m3 LNG vessels that are under long-term charter to the Angola LNG project…
Rt Hon Sir Lockwood Smith appointed New Zealand's first Permanent Representative at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).Sir Lockwood, New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, recently presented his credentials to the IMO’s Secretary-General…
