During this years' Sea Japan trade show in Tokyo, Hatteland Display held a special training session at the premises of its approved Service Partner Tamot Corporation. The main theme of the training was ECDIS re-calibration after servicing.Tamot…
U.S. TRANSCOM General Says Domestic Maritime Industry is “Fourth Arm of Defense.” On National Maritime Day, Calls Industry Critically Important to National Security. U.S. TRANSCOM Commanding General William Fraser III today said maintaining…
Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) issued this statement to commemorate National Maritime Day: “As we celebrate the 79th National Maritime Day in the U.S., we express our gratitude to the nation’s…
Great Lakes Maritime Academy Training Vessel to Make First-ever Stop in Toledo – May 25.Officials with The Maritime Academy of Toledo and the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City, MI have announced that the Great Lakes Maritime Academy training vessel…
Offshore Marine Contractors to implement MarineCFO Enterprise Software.MarineCFO Inc., a provider of Marine Software including On-Vessel, Marine Operations, Personnel, Fleet Maintenance and Financial Management Software Solutions to the Marine Transportation Industry…
We recently spent some time with Bill Clifford, President, BAE Systems Ship Repair, to discuss his views How did you come to your current position?Clifford I currently serve as the president of BAE Systems Ship Repair and have been in this position since 2008…
Engine sales and service company, Resource Power Group (RPG) has appointed Michael Kriner as the company’s Houston Branch Manager. The focus of the Houston branch of the MaK and large bore engine business will be Texas and the Gulf of Mexico territories…
Global container carrier APL received the United States’ Coast Guard’s highest award for excellence in marine environmental protection here today.The world’s seventh largest container carrier took home the Osprey award - the highest level of recognition within the Rear Admiral William M…
APS Stevedoring LLC, an auto and general/breakbulk cargo stevedoring company headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., recently added to its terminal and stevedoring locations with Hyundai Motor’s Portland, Oregon, Terminal 6 - Berth 601 auto terminal…
Videotel Launches New Dynamic Positioning Course. Dynamic positioning (DP) is essential to an ever increasing number of maritime sectors. Today there are over 1,000 DP-capable vessels, and whilst the majority of them are operationally related…
Underwriters, brokers, claims personnel and key industry suppliers converged on San Diego’s Rancho Bernardo earlier this month for the 82st Annual Meeting of the Inland Marine Underwriters Association (IMUA). The meeting officially got underway with the election of a new slate of officers…
Graig China Ltd (GCL), part of the Cardiff-based Graig Group, has been contracted by Hong Kong-based Global Union Shipping Limited to supervise the construction of ten 157,000 dwt suezmax crude oil tankers building at Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries Co Ltd in China…
MOL Liner Ltd. (MOL) announced its new China – Middle East Service (CMS) departing Shanghai on 8th June 2012. MOL will offer an additional weekly service by joining the existing service operated by Wan Hai Lines, PacificInternational Lines…
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (Nasdaq:EGLE) (the 'Company') announced May 22, 2012 that the previously announced 1-for-4 reverse stock split of the Company's issued and outstanding common stock will take effect on May 22, 2012. The Company's…
Five concrete offers have been received for the companies of the Hamburg-based Sietas Group. This is the result of the second phase of the extensive search for investors by the receiver of the Sietas shipyard, Berthold Brinkmann. During the first phase…
