Register is now open for the 2013 Nortek Technical Symposium in San Diego, California on September 20-21, Nortek announced.This year’s event features keynote speakers from Ocean Observatories Initiative, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…
EFC Group, a leading designer and manufacturer of instrumentation, monitoring, handling and control systems for the global oil and gas industry, has announced plans to recruit up to 50 people in the Highlands as part of its rapid expansion in the area…
The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (M.E.B.A.) has released a new recruiting informational video that stresses the importance of the U.S. maritime industry.The video also reveals the quality of M.E.B.A. marine officers and highlights…
Domestic container volume continued its steady performance in the second quarter of 2013 with 9 percent year-over-year gains, largely attributable to a strong big box segment, with total intermodal traffic rising by 2.4 percent for the quarter…
A series of parasail incidents resulting in fatalities and injuries have occurred over the last few years. Since 2006, there have been 11 deaths and 52 injuries as a result of parasailing activities. There have been several common factors in all of these incidents that are unique to parasailing…
Tyler Burger is the latest member of the PMI Industries mechanical engineering team. In this position, Mr. Burger will be responsible for developing, testing and design of the company’s subsea cable management hardware and services. Mr…
Al Schiazza, PE, a licensed professional engineer, is the latest member of the PMI Industries, Inc. engineering team. In this position as a senior project engineer for PMI, Mr. Schiazza will be responsible for managing, developing, testing and…
G2 Crew Services, the recently formed JV between Griffin and GAC, has announced the appointment of Gary Pearce as CEO with effect from August 5. Previously Senior Vice President Global Energy Services for Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), Gary…
E&P costs have been increasing by 11% per annum for the last five years, according to Barclays Capital, and nowhere are they increasing faster than in remote and harsh offshore environments like Alaska’s OCS or Norway’s north Barents Sea.The…
The Paris, Tokyo, Indian Ocean and Black Sea Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) on port state control will carry out a joint concentrated inspection campaign (CIC) to verify compliance with SOLAS Chapter II-1. The CIC will last three months…
Braemar Adjusting continues its development and expansion with the recruitment of new personnel to its London-based loss adjusting team.Geoffrey Thomas, Braemar Adjusting Regional Managing Director, said, “We welcome Alan Tucker, Richard Collins and Patricia Castro to our team here in London…
Container ship 'Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller' uniquely has two captains; one of them, Jes Meinertz, posts the following news on the blog 'Captains of the Triple-E'.'We are now facing the Southwest Monsoon in the Western part of the Indian Ocean…
Coincidentally the USCG and President Obama share August 4, as their joint birthdays: the President is 53 while the Coast Guard is 223 years old on this day. An extract from the message is as follows:'I send greetings to all those celebrating…
The first four new gates for the Panama Canal’s Third Set of Locks will be arriving to Panama from Italy on August 19th; one of the biggest milestones of the Expansion Program. Additional Info:The Third Set of Locks has a total of 16 rolling gates (eight for each new lock complex)…
The Coast Guard rescued an Air National Guard pilot Friday after his plane went down approximately 35 miles southeast of Chincoteague. Coast Guard 5th District Command Center watchstanders received notification via an automated Search and…
