Our Maritime Business Magazines

RINA Group’s certification company, RINA Services (RINA), and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) have agreed to co-operate on specific projects where each society has complementary strengths. Initially co-operation will focus on yachts and ice class where they have specific strength and expertise. RINA will use its expertise with yachts, pleasure craft and...

Cummins has introduced its largest displacement engine ever built to the marine industry at Nor Shipping in Oslo. This 95 litre, 16-cylinder, powerful high-speed diesel offers flexibility in power configurations for propulsion, auxiliary, genset and diesel electric applications. With ratings from 3200 hp to 4200 hp (2386-3132 kW), the QSK95 will provide an ideal...

Port Corpus Christi earned two distinguish awards at AAPA’s 46th annual Communications Competition. The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), a trade association representing leading port authorities throughout the Western Hemisphere, announced the winners of its 46th annual Communications Awards program. Port Corpus Christi and 26 other seaports were recognized for exemplary communications projects...

Wärtsilä announces that its Wärtsilä X40 two-stroke engine has successfully passed its Type Approval Test (TAT). The testing was carried out in Zhuhai, China, at Wärtsilä’s licensee Yuchai Marine Power Co. Ltd (YCMP). In passing the TAT, the engine is verified as having fulfilled all classification society requirements, and will be fully introduced to...

NOAA Fisheries is seeking comments on its proposal to make permanent the rules it implemented five years ago to reduce the number of collisions between ships and North Atlantic right whales. Right whales are among the most endangered species in the world, and are highly vulnerable to ship collisions. The rules, part of NOAA’s...

Imtech Marine and Cobham SATCOM announced at Nor-Shipping 2013 the introduction of a sophisticated remote access service. Delivered by the Imtech Marine 24/7 Global Control Rooms (GTAC, Global Technical Assistance Centres) in Rotterdam, Houston and Singapore, the new service allows direct access to a vessel’s Cobham SATCOM communications systems, including current generation SAILOR GMDSS...

International Dredging and Offshore Contractor Van Oord has chosen Sealink customised VSAT from Marlink to provide data communication services for three offshore rock placement vessels. The five year contract covers Marlink’s provision of end-to-end services and includes facility to provide ad-hoc coverage should the vessels be operating in extreme remote areas. The Sealink Service...

In April 2013 the Hamburg-based Technolog sold licences to the Sumec Marine Company of Nanjing, China, for the manufacture of the world’s first family of LNG (dual-fuel) container ships. Technolog supplies the design as a complete blueprint for construction, together with the LNG drive technology, for the innovative container ship family STREAM (Sustainable Transport, Reliable, Economic and...

After Europe Container Terminals (ECT) took a 50 percent stake in ShoreTension Holding B.V. in April, the joint venture with All-round Port Services B.V. is ready to launch its revolutionary stand-alone mooring system ShoreTension on a global basis. Gerrit van der Burg, Managing Director of ShoreTension Holding B.V.: “After highly rigorous and extensive field testing, the time has now...

Spanish-grown tomatoes transported all the way to Sweden can be a better alternative from a climate point of view than Swedish-grown tomatoes. That’s the conclusion of a new study commissioned by the Port of Gothenburg, which recently entered into a collaboration with the Port of Bilbao to switch more freight from road to sea. Åsa Wilske,...

Royal Princess, the new flagship of the Princess Cruises fleet owned by the Carnival Group, the world’s largest cruise ship operator, was presented recently at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard. Attending the ceremony, among others, was the Deputy Minister of Infrastructures and transport Vincenzo De Luca, representing the Government. For Princess Cruises was present Alan Buckelew,...

Recently Benetti launched FB260 m/y Lady Candy. A private ceremony has been organized in order to celebrate the delivery with the owner and his family. Among the guests were Paolo Vitelli (Azimut Benetti Group Chairman and Founder), Vincenzo Poerio (CEO Megayacht Division), Paul Brackley from Central Yachts together with the rest of Benetti’s management...

Kleven AS has become the first Norwegian shipyard to receive the coveted ISO 14001:2004 environmental standard, adding to its existing ISO 9001:2008 quality standard. According to Trond Øvrelid from DNV, who has led the auditing process at the yard, it is the well-defined, practical working methods established at Kleven that fulfil the stringent criteria...

Two leading players in inland shipping have joined forces and combined their experiences to develop the small scale LNG market under the name VEKA DEEN LNG. This collaboration is a leap forward in the realization of an inland LNG transport corridor and facilitates LNG bunkering. During the second day of the ‘Construction & Shipping...

Brazil’s Congress last week passed legislation that authorizes US$27 billion in investment to improve Brazil’s aging and congested ports. The government said it expects the nation’s exports to quadruple by 2030; its ports are operating at capacity. Under the plan, ports will be open to private investment and new construction of privately-owned ports would...

The Turkish Container Terminal (TCEEGE), operated by Grup Marítim TCB, continues its strategic plan for technological innovation by adding an ECH(empty container handler) to its equipment, increasing the speed, safety and environmental sustainability as compared to the reach stackers used until now. Furthermore, the company has begun to extend part of the Terminal close...

Of the Euro 36 billion plus revenue spread across European cruising destinations, Greece is the recipient of just Euro 600 million due to its lagging home porting capabilities and infrastructure challenges as only nine of Greece’s 57 ports are capable of hosting cruise liners, heard the 300 delegates of the 2nd Posidonia Sea Tourism...

Former Mammoet CTO and shareholder Jan van Seumeren jr., together with three ex-Mammoet managers, has set up Re-Move. The company offers customers a variety of lease forms for heavy lift cranes and vehicles, including worldwide shipping. The company will concentrate on cranes and heavy transport trailers, vehicles and alternative lifting equipment without operators. “We can see that it...

A two-week voyage through four Great Lakes and the Mississippi River will bring to the Port of Houston Authority the first of three high-performance fireboats to replace the current fleet. The new fireboats will equip the Port Authority’s firefighting team with the most sophisticated fleet in the world. “As the nation’s busiest port in...

HC Merwede has recently delivered the CHANG JIANG KOU 02 to Yangtze Estuary Waterway Administration Bureau (YEWAB) in Shanghai. The impressive 12,000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger was handed over to YEWAB Director, Mr Lu Shi Ming. IHC Merwede’s contract with YEWAB included the design, construction and delivery of two identical vessels: the CHANG JIANG...

Engineering group Cavotec reently co-hosted a community and business outreach event at the Port of Ystad in southern Sweden, during which one of the Group’s shore-to-ship power systems experts delivered a seminar on the environmental and economic benefits of shore power. The event was co-hosted by Cavotec, leading power and automation conglomerate ABB, the...

Since acquiring Sobrena, Damen Shiprepair Brest has serviced 50 vessels from leading shipowners and managers. The yard’s work portfolio includes a large number of Afra/Suezmax tankers and LNG carriers. The latest project concerns the Höegh LNG owned and MOL LNG Transport managed 123,800M3 LNG LIBRA, which is presently at the yard. Jos Goris, Managing...

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has received an order for ten Terex® NSC 634 E ECO straddle carriers from Freeport Container Port (FCP), which is part of Hutchison Port Holdings, with an option to purchase an additional 12 machines. From May of this year, the straddle carriers will be in operation at the FCP terminal...

A symbolic keel-laying ceremony on the 17th of April 2013 in Gorinchem, The Netherlands, officially launched the construction phase of 14 Damen ASD Tugs for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). The series consist of two types, being 9 tugs of Damen’s recently launched 3212 model and 5 units of the well-known 2810 design, with 80...

ITIC has revealed how an invoicing error led to a shipbroker being asked to foot the bill for a bunker supply amounting to more than three-quarters of a million dollars. In its latest Claims Review, ITIC cites the case of a chartering broker which arranged a fixture for a voyage from the Black Sea...