ClassNK has released the second edition of its Guidelines for Container Stowage and Securing Arrangements. The update comes in response to recent industry changes as the amount and size of container carriers increases more than ever before, the classification society said…
Second U.S. Navy Officer Indicted on Related Bribery Charges.A commander in the U.S. Navy pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges today, admitting that he provided a government contractor with classified ship schedules and other internal U…
The new Board of Directors of Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has reviewed the Company's organization, and has resolved to appoint Bjarte H. Bruheim as Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective from 7 January 2015. Bjarte Bruheim…
McDermott International, Inc. announced today that one of its joint venture companies, Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd. (“QMW”), recently completed a fast-track compression process module fabrication subcontract for Jord Oil & Gas Systems B…
Specialised shipbuilder Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd (Keppel Singmarine), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has secured two contracts worth a total of about S$65 million.The first contract was awarded by Seaways International Pte…
Dorian LPG Ltd. reported that on January 2nd it took delivery of the ECO VLGC 'Corvette' from Hyundai Heavy Industries. 'Corvette', Dorian's third newbuilding delivery, will initially trade in the spot market and is the first of 15 deliveries that the Company expects in 2015.
Tank level monitoring is a common wireless application used in upstream pumping, oil and gas, wastewater, agriculture and other industrial applications to eliminate run-outs and overflows while optimizing and ensuring the integrity of operations…
Woods Hole Group on November 14, 2014 was awarded a contract to design and install a current profiling system for a subsidiary of Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc.The current profiling system will consist of dual (upward and downward…
BW Offshore and Seagull Oil & Gas are cooperating to develop training material for the offshore industry.Building on a training relationship stretching back almost two decades, BW Offshore and Seagull are developing new training material to cover BW Offshore’s process and production operations…
A cargo ship abandoned by its crew with 359 Syrian refugees on board was towed ashore in Italy on Saturday in the second such rescue this week, prompting calls for stronger European Union action in the face of new tactics by human traffickers…
A Bahaman ship Bulk Jupiter with all-Filipino crew members sank on Friday in the East Vietnam Sea, some 150 nautical miles off southern Vung Tau City. Personnel of the Vietnam Maritime Rescue Cooperation Center (MRCC) rescued one and recovered two bodies of the crew members…
One of the world's largest non self-propelled cutter dredger vessels, which is also one of the largest of all cutter dredgers in the world with 5200 kW of cutter power, will feature Wärtsilä engines, both to generate power and to drive the dredging pump…
LaNaval Shipyard in Spain has laid the keel of the ferry Texelstroom on the 30th of December, that is building for the dutch company Royal N.V. Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming (TESO), located in the island of Texel, at the north of The Netherlands…
Concordia Maritime has just renewed its contract with a major oil and gas company for a consecutive voyage charter arrangement for the P-MAX tankers Stena Provence and Stena Polaris. The agreement will run until the summer of 2015.“This…
Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma returned Sunday to their homeport of Kittery, Maine after a 55-day patrol conducting operations and training in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. The crew carried out Living Marine Resources boardings under the guidance of the 1st Coast Guard District…
