Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is warning of tug and pilot boats strike action in Argentina following a work to rule notification by the AB Union (SOMU). The union first began the work to rule action at Bahia Blanca port on 31 July with no advised completion date…
Innovative Brown Water Programs Arguably the best equipped and most environmentally sound maritime campus in the country, Mass. Maritime also finds itself (not by accident) at the leading edge of a fundamental change in how maritime academies deliver education in a changing marketplace…
The US Coast Guard proposes rate adjustments averaging approximately 1.87% for pilotage services on the Great Lakes. Comments on the proposal should be submitted by 1 October. 77 Fed. Reg. 45539 (August 1, 2012). ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking…
Applied Weather Technology, Inc. (AWT) announced its BVS onboard software provides Emission Control Areas (ECAs) and calculation tools to evaluate the most cost effective voyage track.Using the latest version of BVS, captains manage their…
Oil and gas industry offers ex-military personnel chance for a challenging second career. A former soldier has swapped foreign battlefields for the oil and gas industry, highlighting the vital role transferrable skills can play in addressing talent shortages within the energy sector…
Cavotec wins two large orders for electrical power and spreader cable reels for ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes.These orders follow a recent announcement that the Group is to supply similar equipment to the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka…
Pilot Freight, worldwide transportation & logistics provider, picks up its seventh 'Ryder Transportation Management Carrier Quality Award'.Every year Ryder recognizes carriers through this award who demonstrate excellence in on-time performance…
The Russian spoke to members of an expedition to clean up polluted areas of the Franz Josef Land archipelagoExcerpts from President Putin's speech at an Arkhangelsk dockside follow:'This is a symbolic event for Russia. First, it confirms our growing presence in the Arctic…
Transas supples a simulator to the training centre of Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka in Russia.The system has been designed for training of personnel operating cranes offshore on the Arctic shelf.The platform intended for the operation of the…
Bad weather, a still smouldering hold, cause the tow to pull back out of the 200-mile zone.The team of firefighting experts is unable to go onboard MSC FLAMINIA due to bad weather conditions, and In the coming days a further deterioration of the weather is predicted…
Keppel FELS shipyard, Singapore, delivers the seventh & final ENSCO 8500 Series® rig to EnscoThe rig is contracted to Anadarko for work in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico starting in December 2012.“The construction and successful commencement of…
Cal Dive and Fugro join forces for diving support vessel, 'Toisa Paladin', charterCal Dive International has entered into a 50/50 strategic partnership with Fugro for the long-term charter of the DP2 Toisa Paladin, a 2007 purpose built, DNV classed…
Global Marine Systems Energy contracted A&P North East to ready 'Cable Enterprise' for offshore wind farm operations.The project took 110 days work to make the vessel ready for a contract on the Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm, situated off the coast of Wales…
Australia-based Buccaneer Energy sees its 'Endeavour – Spirit of Independence' en route to Cook Inlet, Alaska.Buccaneer says it jack-up rig has been loaded on to the heavy lift vessel Kang Sheng Kou bound to drill for fossil fuels in waters off the coast of Alaska…
GAC Pindar is appointed official shipping and logistics services provider to the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club.The contract is to run from July 2012 through to December 2015.The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club will host a number of international sailing regattas over the next couple of years…
