Our Maritime Business Magazines

Excelsum Industrial & Marine Services strives as a strong, worldwide operating company to improve her provision of services. In the process to amplify her safety- and quality level we will administer a change as of the 1st of July with a link to other products/services within the Multinal Group. The advantage of this step...

Kongsberg Maritime has completed the installation and commissioning of an integrated bridge and automation solution during a large-scale retrofit of the Saipem 7000, an advanced Semi-submersible crane and pipelaying (J-lay) DP3 vessel. The project to equip Saipem 7000 with the latest advanced offshore technology took place in Stavanger and Rotterdam during October 2012 –...

Forth Ports Limited and Port of Zeebrugge/MBZ have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which marks the start of a strategic agreement between the Port companies with the aim of the exploring mutual opportunities to attract new container cargo volumes. Both ports have complementary assets both in current trade arrangements and geographical positioning...

To further strengthen BMT’s market position in blue water surveys, BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, is pleased to announce the acquisition of marine survey and consulting engineers, Verweij & Hoebee. A co-founder of the Association of Marine Surveyors and Consulting Engineers, Verweij & Hoebee was established...

Under the motto “Meet Diversity and Innovation” Liebherr celebrated the grand opening of its new sales and service center on June 11, 2013 in Miami. The ceremony was attended by more than 300 invited customers and guests. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Hialeah Gardens just off Okeechobee and the Florida Turnpike. It...

The AdvanFort Company announces that it has initiated a new series of White Papers on laws, regulations, government policies and other subjects of interest to the counter-piracy community by publishing an analysis by world-renowned maritime lawyer John A.C. Cartner on critical questions governing the use of armed guards. Cartner’s “The Rule of Mammon or...

In recent weeks Austal has achieved a number of significant milestones in the 10 ship Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) Program for which it is the Prime Contractor to the United States Navy. Austal has: – Officially delivered the second JHSV, USNS Choctaw County, to the United States Navy, exactly six months following the...

VSTEP and PC Maritime have jointly developed a software interface which makes high quality, yet affordable ECDIS and radar training possible. Following its radar video interface with the Kelvin Hughes and MARIS ECDIS, VSTEP’s NAUTIS bridge simulators now also connect to PC Maritime’s Navmaster ECDIS to provide training colleges with a DNV-approved generic ECDIS...

E-Crane, the only Belgian manufacturer of port cranes with subsidiary companies in the Netherlands (E-Crane International Europe) and Ohio, USA (E-Crane International USA), keeps on expanding its market with a brand new 1500 series crane in Sweden for Mälarhamnar AB. This is another success on Scandinavian territory for the company in only two years’...

Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, chairman of the Moller Foundation, had the honor of naming Maersk Line’s first Triple-E containership during a naming ceremony held at the DSME yard in Okpo, South Korea on Friday 14 June 2013. The vessel bears the name of the late Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, the son of A.P. Moller-Maersk group’s...

International service contractor Sureclean has been recognised for its commitment to people development after introducing new employee training programmes, accredited by the Chartered Management Institute. The training, which is provided by Highlands based training company Helcat, features a number of supervisory, leadership and management development modules. The programme has been established to enhance employee...

Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum, will be hosting a lunch and learn to provide attendees with an insight into supply chain companies’ decommissioning capabilities. The lunch and learn event will take place on June 19 at the Palm Court Hotel in Aberdeen from noon-2pm, where three companies will...

Strengthening its global presence, leading oil and gas executive search and leadership consultancy, Park Brown International has opened a new office in Houston. The firm serves clients in all major energy and natural resources provinces around the world from its established bases in Aberdeen and Perth, Australia and establishing a US presence is part...

Oil & Gas UK’s annual Health & Safety report published on 13 June, shows that the UK oil and gas industry’s focus on continuous improvement is helping to keep the offshore workforce ever safer. The report details the performance of companies over the last year, and outlines several major incidents that occurred. As the...

MAN Diesel & Turbo is to supply eight engines for the diesel-electric propulsion of two cruise ship newbuildings to Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A., world leader in cruise shipbuilding. The company is delivering the engines in cooperation with Alfa Laval who will supply accompanying exhaust-gas-treatment systems (PureSOx) for sulphur- oxide removal. Each cruise ship...

Clean Marine AS has been selected by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea to supply Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) for two new shuttle tankers being built for AET. The order will enable the new AET vessels to comply with future legislation relating to sulphur emissions without switching to more expensive fuels. According to...

IHC Merwede is pleased to announce that it has recently secured orders to the value of EUR 125 million for a wide range of new cutter suction dredgers (CSDs) and related equipment. The latest sales agreements confirmed by the company include a new custom-built CSD and a further twelve units that will be supplied...

Innovatum, maker of the world’s smallest system for the location, tracking and survey of submarine pipelines and cables, has added to its fleet of small-sized, yet powerful Falcon ROVs, the slightly larger but compact version of the more powerful Saab Seaeye Cougar XT. They won their reputation for creating a smaller and smarter survey...

The Port of Felixstowe has officially opened a new rail terminal which doubles rail capacity at Britain’s biggest container port. The new North Rail Terminal was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by His Royal Highness The Duke of York, KG, local dignitaries and a large number of the port’s customers. Commenting on the new...

Speaking to delegates at the opening of the Nor-Shipping event in Oslo today, the Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Masamichi Morooka, said that impending new legislation to protect the environment potentially presented an additional industry-wide cost of more than half a trillion US dollars between 2015 and 2025. This is around...

Fugro Seastar AS announces that CMA CGM MARCO POLO has been fitted with Marinestar manoeuvring system to assist in berthing and navigation. The satellite aided navigation technology is based on composite GPS and GLONASS constellations and measures precise speeds at the bow and the stern together with quay distances to assist the vessel safely...

Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) and offshore oil and gas engineering specialist NLI Solutions (NLI) have received Approval in Principal (AiP) from the Norwegian class society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) on their jointly-developed LNG fuel tank design. The two companies have worked on the development of a LNG fuel tank design since 2009 in response...

The 6R 1500 engine from MTU Friedrichshafen received the award for “Diesel of the Year 2013”. The Italian trade magazine ‘Diesel’ judged the six-cylinder inline variant of the MTU Series 1500, which offers power outputs from 400 to 460kW, to be the most innovative and technically advanced engine of the year. It meets the...

Contargo, the largest operator of container hinterland terminals and inland shipping services in the Rhine corridor, affiliates its terminal network with a connection to the port of Rotterdam with InlandLinks. This afternoon at Transport Logistics in Munich, Heinrich Kerstgens and Thomas Löffler, both Managing Director of Contargo, signed the participant declaration to that aim...

Towage and salvage specialist Multraship has further strengthened its multipurpose fleet with the addition of the ASD tug Multratug 20. Multraship has contracted with international broker and consultant DSB Offshore for the long-term bareboat charter of the 72-ton bollard-pull vessel, which was built by the Bogazici Shipyard in Turkey in 2010 and is equipped...