Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Worldwide – Marine Site Investigation and Deep Cement Mixing Trial * Worldwide –…
m/v Santa Vista Tokyo – ClassNK announced yesterday that it had awarded its first ever Statement of Fact for Tier III nitrogen oxide (NOx) reductions to a marine diesel engine incorporating…
Christian Freiherr von Oldershausen (right) with GL COO Torsten Schramm Hamburg, Germany, 29 December 2011 – Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has appointed Mr Christian Freiherr von Oldershausen to the newly created…
Chemical tanker hijacked – Maritime Security Alert: 29 December 2011 A maritime security alert has been issued for the Arabian Sea after Italian flagged chemical tanker “Enrico Levoli” was hijacked…
Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Australia, Port Kembla – Coal Terminal – mid ship gangway concrete platform repairs…
WITHOUT PREJUDICE By John Faraclas I will start with Edmund Burke’s cliché: “for the evil to flourish, all that is needed is for good people to do nothing.” Time and…
Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Worldwide – TCDD Port of Iskenderun * Worldwide – AUSTRALIAN COAL AND IRON…
TOKYO, 28 December 2011 — Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President Koichi Muto) today announced the company’s top news stories for 2011 as follows: Relief efforts after the Great East…
Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Hong Kong, Hong Kong – Submarine outfall inspection off Lung Kwu Sheung Tan…
ICS is advising shipping companies to ensure they comply with the Manila amendments to STCW, particularly in relation to seafarers’ rest hours and the more stringent requirements for preventing drug…
Thomas Gunn Thomas Gunn has donated a complete set of world routing charts to enable the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) to voyage around the globe for the first time, creating…
HOT PORT NEWS from GAC Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Worldwide – World Holidays: 25 December 2011-7 January…
Henrik O. Madsen, DNV’s CEO Oslo/Arnhem: DNV has acquired 74.3% of KEMA’s shares, creating a world-leading consulting and certification company within the cleaner energy, sustainability, power generation, transmission and distribution…
Photo (L-R): Jebsens Maritime Inc. (JMI) Quality Representative (QR) Romyde Asis, Selandia Crew Management Philippines, Inc. (Selandia) AVP Capt. Robert Bandivas, Aboitiz Jebsen Managing Director Ole Stene, GL Philippines Country…
HOT PORT NEWS from GAC- Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Hong Kong, Hong Kong – New Year Countdown…
STCW Manila seafarer training amendments enter into force on 1 January 2012 – Major revisions to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (the STCW…
Hamburg, Germany, 22 December 2011 – Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has been accredited by DAkkS (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle), the national accreditation body for the Federal Republic of Germany, to provide worldwide certification…
HOT PORT NEWS from GAC Your daily news service from ports around the world. In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about: * Nigeria, all ports – Nigerian holidays for Christmas…
Patrick Roberts – ShipConstructor Executive Re-Elected NSRP Panel Vice Chairman – Patrick Roberts, Director of Operations for ShipConstructor USA, has once again been re-elected Vice Chairman of the Business Process…
The Admiralty team recently returned from Marintec China 2011 in Shanghai, where over 100 maritime professionals attended our Digital Integration Workshops. Entitled ‘Are you ready for the ECDIS regulations?’, the…
ShipConstructor Software Inc. (SSI) continues to expand its involvement in the US National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP), created to advance technology and help shipbuilders increase efficiency. Alongside six other industry…
EXMAR is pleased to announce that following the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement, LLOG and EXMAR have reached an agreement in principle whereby LLOG will accelerate the payments due…
Kalliopi Lyrintzis with Spyros Zolotas General Manager for Africa, Greece and Middle EastRINA’s Christmas do was more than a success; Elena Kritikou writes: Following the mood of Christmas, RINA Hellas…
Wärtsilä to supply new design for state-of-the-art pipe laying vessels operating in Brazil. Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider, is to supply the design and propulsors/positioning system for a…
Vassilis Papageorgiou, Captain Panagiotis Tsakos and Apo Poulovassilis Lloyd’s Register Christmas open house-party down town Akti Miaouli was a great success this year! More than 400 guests attended! From the…