Jacqueline Tan, Senior Claims Executive at the UK P&I Club, commented on the ballast water management controls coming into force: “The coming into force of the Ballast Water Management Convention 2004 (“BWMC”) is now imminent. As of February 12…
Seaspan’s Victoria Shipyards announces retirement of vice president and general manager, appoints successor Seaspan’s vice president and general manager of Victoria Shipyards Co. Ltd., Malcolm Barker, will retire Spring 2015, following more than 21 years with the company…
Irving Shipbuilding's partnership with Women Unlimited provides community college funding and job opportunities at Halifax Shipyard Irving Shipbuilding has partnered with Women Unlimited to provide education funding and job opportunities…
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3) subsidiary has promoted Gerald Boyd to vice president of business development. Boyd currently serves as the company's vice president of southeast operations. Boyd joined SN3—then The S…
SSI will host a free webinar covering its ShipConstructor P&ID DesignValidation on February 25, from 8-9:30 a.m. PDT. The technical sales webinar, which aims to introduce end-users to the product, will be comprised of a short introduction…
Corvus Energy has appointed Halvard “Hal” Hauso as executive vice president of sales and marketing. Hauso brings more than 30 years of industrial marine business development experience to this role, most recently serving six years as senior vice president at Rolls-Royce Marine…
Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, 83, passed away today in the company of his family at his home in Oslo. An entrepreneur and visionary of boundless enthusiasm and energy, Jacob Stolt-Nielsen founded Parcel Tankers, Inc. in 1959 and pioneered the global trade for liquid chemicals…
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced today that through a joint venture ship-owning company with Itochu Corporation charter agreements have been signed with E.ON Global Commodities SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of E.ON SE. The joint venture…
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. introduced its new 120-foot, 4,200-horsepower Inland Towboat design, THUNDERBOLT, combining twin electric V-Pod propulsion and diesel-electric technology for what the builder calls its “vision of the future for the U…
On Friday 6 February 2015, Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd., China, held a steel cutting ceremony for the first of four platform supply vessels of ULSTEIN’s PX121 design being built for Otto Offshore Limited. The shipbuilding contracts at Wuchang were announced in August 2014…
The first piece of steel was cut at MEYER WERFT in Papenburg, Germany for the construction of the first ship with the construction number S. 711 for Asian operator Star Cruises.Tan Sri Lim, Chairman of Star Cruises, pushed the button…
Dometic Marine announced today that Ben Haynes has been promoted to Dometic Director of OEM Sales for Commercial Marine.Haynes, who will oversee commercial, military and custom boat projects in North and South America involving Dometic equipment…
10 Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) employees from the company's Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions were recognized for achievements in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields during the 29th…
As the International Maritime Organization (IMO) furthers measures for controlling onboard noise and vibration levels in the interest of passengers and seafarers’ health, it has become increasingly important for the shipyards and design houses…
Technip has contracted Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam to perform the dry-docking, upgrading and operational modifications for the deepwater S-lay and heavy lift vessel ‘Global 1200’, designed by Ulstein Sea of Solutions. The vessel arrived at the yard in January 2015…
