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Australia Ship Sim Center Opens

Feb 07, 2020

The Western Australian Minister for Ports, the Hon. Alannah MacTiernan MLC opened the expanded facilities of HR Wallingford’s new Australia Ship Simulation Center.HR Wallingford has added two new purpose-built simulators to its center in Fremantle…

TWG Names Mirdha President

Feb 07, 2020

Tulsa Winch Group, a Dover company, appointed Arjun Mirdha as President, effective January 6, 2020. He will report to Dover's President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard J. Tobin. Arjun will focus on expanding TWG's broad portfolio of market-leading products globally…

Dan-Bunkering Appoints Finance Director

Feb 07, 2020

A/S Dan-Bunkering Ltd. appointed Ulrik Silversparre Bodholdt as Finance Director as of January 1, 2020.Bodholdt joins Dan-Bunkering from a position as Auditor and Department Manager with a large renowned accountancy firm and will be based in Dan-Bunkering’s office in Copenhagen…

TÜV SÜD, IX Wind Join Forces for Wind Power

Feb 06, 2020

The global testing, certification, inspection and training provider TÜV SÜD and Taiwan's IX Wind have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in various wind power industry services in Taiwan and Japan.Combining forces in the Taiwanese and Japanese wind power industry…

Turku Shipyard Doubles the Order

Feb 06, 2020

Finnish shipbuilding company Meyer Turku Oy (known as the Turku shipyard) announced that the supply orders of the shipyard got almost doubled in two years.'The value of supply orders to the shipyard has grown very strongly. It has almost doubled in two years (+ 84 %)…

India Approves $9Bn Deepsea Port Plan

Feb 06, 2020

Indian government has green-lighted a mega container port, to be constructed at a cost of INR655.45bn ($9.2bn) at Vadhavan, around 160 km north-west of Mumbai.The proposal to create the huge port – on a ‘landlord model’ – was cleared at a Union…

Oakland Port Appoints McKenney COO

Feb 06, 2020

Port of Oakland has appointed veteran aviation executive Kristi McKenney as its Chief Operating Officer (COO).Executive Director Danny Wan announced the appointment today after the Port’s governing Board created the new position last month.  Ms…

New MAN Fluid Monitor for Lube Oil

Feb 06, 2020

MAN Energy Solutions launched a monitoring device for industrial lube oil.The MAN Fluid Monitor for lube oil is a light and robust system developed to meet the needs of the owners of industrial installations where lube-oil quality is a critical setting…

Stena Line Opens New Ferry Route

Feb 06, 2020

On Friday January 31, 2020 Stena Line closed the Varberg-Grenaa route. The day after, on Saturday, February 1st Stena Line’s new ferry route between Halmstad in Sweden and Grenaa in Denmark was officially opened. The inauguration started early…

Vinalines to Join Global Shipping Alliances

Feb 05, 2020

The Vietnam National Shipping Lines Corporation (Vinalines) has set sights on joining the global shipping alliances (GSA).As part of this move, Vinalines will devise a number of measures to further promote growth of its three key sectors of seaport…

Vattenfall Steps Up Offshore Wind Market

Feb 05, 2020

Swedish multinational power company Vattenfall said that it had reached a number of important milestones during the year 2019. In Denmark the Horns Rev 3 (407 MW) wind farm was inaugurated, and construction was started on Kriegers Flak (605 MW)…

@ SAMS, Science + Autonomy = Answers

Feb 04, 2020

Few sea and ocean-related research projects today do not involve some form of underwater robotic or marine autonomous system. Elaine Maslin reports on how they’re being used by the Scottish Association of Marine Science.Whether it’s large autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)…

DeepOcean Moves UK HQ to Feethams House

Feb 03, 2020

DeepOcean, a global subsea services company, is set to move its UK headquarters to a new base in Darlington.The company specializes in engineering and marine works solutions for large subsea cable projects associated with offshore wind farms…

Japan Builds First Commercial OWF

Feb 03, 2020

After having reached financial close for offshore wind farms at Akita Port and Noshiro Port in Japan,  Akita Offshore Wind Corporation (AOW) has announced that it is to commence construction this month.The Offshore Wind Farms are comprised of…

Vopak Finalises Sale of Algeciras Oil Terminal

Feb 03, 2020

Dutch multinational company Royal Vopak has recently completed the previously announced divestment of its oil terminal in Algeciras to First State Investments.This divestment is the finalization of the sale of three terminals (Amsterdam, Hamburg…

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Jumbo Orders Two New Heavy Lift Vessels

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Teqplay Acquired by Ofiniti to Extend Operational Intelligence Across Global Bunkering

Teqplay Acquired by Ofiniti to Extend Operational Intelligence Across Global Bunkering

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Port of Albany-Rensselaer Hosts Maritime Summit

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