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General Dynamics Bags $ 50 mi Submarine Contracts

Oct 01, 2014

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics was awarded two contract modifications totaling $50 million to continue supporting the AN/BYG-1 combat control system aboard U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy submarines…

Swissco Doubles Rig Fleet

Oct 01, 2014

SGX Mainboard-listed Swissco Holdings Limited an integrated, international marine services provider, today announced having completed the acquisition of four additional mobile offshore drilling units, bringing the fleet of rigs to eight. As announced on 15 August 2014 on the Singapore Exchange…

General Dynamics takes Rudy deLeon on Board

Oct 01, 2014

The board of directors of General Dynamics has elected Rudy deLeon to be a director of the corporation, effective September 30, 2014. DeLeon is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, a position he has held since November 2007…

Scanjet Bags Multiple Tank Management Orders

Oct 01, 2014

SCANJET Group has followed up its breakthrough Tank Management order from Stolt-Nielsen with a series of contracts for its ITAMA Intelligent Tank Management concept including Tankcleaning, Tank monitoring, P/V valves and the Scanjet VRC(valve related control) system…

PSC CIC on Fire Safety Systems by Riyadh MoU

Sep 29, 2014

ClassNK has informed that Six countries viz. Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE of the Riyadh MOU in the Gulf Region are planning the following PSC Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC); Items of concentrated inspection…

Seakeeper Launches 5 New Models

Sep 28, 2014

Seakeeper proudly introduces five new models, offering stability and roll reduction for vessels 30’ and larger! The product range now includes the Seakeeper 5, 9, 16, 26 and 35 models, with gyros that are smaller and more powerful than ever…

Global Marine Lubricants Market to Value $9.36b by 2018

Sep 26, 2014

A global market report published by Transparency Market Research, entitled Marine Lubricants Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018, provides inputs about the global state of the current market…

New Masterplanning Guidance for Ports Published

Sep 26, 2014

A new report, Masterplans for the development of existing ports, has been published today by PIANC. The report was prepared by an international Working Group (WG 158) established 2012 and chaired by Stephen Cork, Technical Director at HR Wallingford…

Successful MTG Light Off for USS Zumwalt

Sep 26, 2014

The future USS Zumwalt, the first ship of the DDG 1000 multimission destroyer class, performed a successful Generator Light-Off of its first Main Turbine Generator Set (MTG) this week, Rolls-Royce announced. The ship is now power self-sufficient enabling follow-on systems testing and trials…

New HTML5 Version of Insight Genesis

Sep 26, 2014

Insight Genesis™,the custom map-generation tool for Lowrance, Simrad NS and B&G Zeus series chartplotters,announced today the latest update to its premium map-making service— Apple Mac and mobile device compatibility. Significantly expanding access to Insight Genesis…

World Maritime Day 2014 Celebrated in Mumbai

Sep 26, 2014

25th September, the Day when the World Maritime Day gets celebrated in Mumbai is an event well-known among the seafaring community and in the shipping and other related circles. Though other centers in India too have their own celebration…

Evolving Threats Met by Market Innovation

Sep 25, 2014

A look at commercial off-the-shelf technologies and products designed to mitigate risk at sea and in port. In a post 9/11 world, many facets of maritime security only seem to grow. Global threats, despite best efforts, do not diminish. Chief among these issues are port security…

Oslo Stock Exchange Approves Listing of Aker Solutions Holding ASA

Sep 24, 2014

The board of directors of the Oslo Stock Exchange has approved the listing of shares in Aker Solutions Holding ASA, to be renamed Aker Solutions ASA on completion of the demerger of Aker Solutions, and granted permission for trading in the shares to begin on September 29…

EU & US Sanctions on Russia Not to Impact VSS Operations

Sep 23, 2014

The present EU and US sanctions are not expected to impact Viking Supply Ships’ operations and financials in 2014. It is too early to say whether sanctions will impact the drilling seasons 2015 and onwards.Four of Viking Supply Ships’ AHTS-vessels…

Deep Sea Supply Announces Multiple Contract Awards

Sep 23, 2014

Deep Sea Supply is pleased to announce multiple contract awards with an international major subsea contractor for a total duration of approximately 1000 vessel days.  The three PSVs of PX105 design 'Sea Spider', 'Sea Springer' and 'Sea Spark' have been awarded contracts for ten…

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