Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) appoint Bill Steckel Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.Mr. Steckel brings nearly 30 years of financial and operating management experience in public and private companies. Bruce Biemeck…
'The Blades' is the nickname of UK soccer team Sheffield United, & logistics provider GAC has renewed sponsorship of the club.Since forming links with the Blades in 2009 GAC went on to become the Official Logistics Partner of Sheffield United…
Floating Production Storage & Offloading ship uses ABB systems to control entire production from reservoir to wellhead to vessel.FPSO Peregrino, one of the biggest, most technologically advanced oil production ships in the world, was converted…
Swiss shipping operators confirm they employ armed security guards to protect their ships off Somalia & Gulf of Aden.Landlocked Switzerland plays a surprisingly prominent role in the commercial shipping scene. The Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company operates 422 vessels…
Head of Naval Surface Forces says officials looking closely at Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) manning in order to alleviate crew exhaustion.Recent disclosure of a closely held Navy study of LCS operations, indicated among the many issues identified…
German-owned 998-ft container ship 'Ilse Wulff' repaired in CIC Changxing Shipyard after touching bottom in the Panama Canal earlier in the year.Owners of the Ilse Wulff decided to combine the repair of bottom plating and a deformed propellor…
A 3D CDP seismic survey covering 1,200 square km is being carried out by three field exploration parties from Yuzhmorgeologiya.Pechora Sea (Russian: Печо́рское мо́ре, or Pechorskoye More), is a sea at the northwest of Russia, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea…
A Singapore stock exhange error was at first suspected as shares in STX Pan Ocean Co. plunged 64%.The Singapore Exchange said there was no trading error behind the recent 64 percent plunge by shares of STX Pan Ocean Co. (STX), South Korea’s biggest dry-bulk carrier…
Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship 'R/V Falkor' locates the wreck of historic exploration ship off the coast of Greenland.During routine functional performance testing of the mutibeam mapping echosounders on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship R/V Falkor…
BiblioBoard offers 'Titanic: A Historical Collection' with 50+ books, images and articles to read on the iPad.Titanic: A Historical Collection offers early accounts of the Titanic sinking, works by and about Titanic passengers and more documents about the Titanic tragedy…
Retired Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, Philip H. Greene, Jr., has been named vice president of TOTE, Inc. Greene will join TOTE, Inc. in early September 2012, leading efforts to further serve government and military accounts in the organization’s maritime…
Ron Huibers, currently President of Sales & Marketing North America within Volvo Trucks Americas, will assume his new position on September 1, 2012. Huibers has been with Volvo Group for 20 years. He has held various North America and International…
AS Tallink Grupp announce unaudited net profit in second quarter 2012 increased by 47%.AS Tallink Grupp is one of the largest ferry companies in the region, operating six routes between Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia. The company has…
Kirkenes is becoming an important port for vessels conducting seismic surveys in the Arctic search for fossil fuels. Geographical proximity to the oil and gas fields and developed infrastructure draws companies to this North Norwegian town…
The first steel fore sections cut & removed from 'Rena', with the Bell 214 heavy-lift helicopter completing 14 separate lifts to the barge Kapua.Salvage (Resolve Marine) • The barge made its first landing in Tauranga with an estimated 40 tonnes of steel…
