Aqualis Offshore Successfully Completes Jacking Trial Of Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Ouyang 1

Norwegian Joy, Norwegian Cruise Line’s first custom-designed ship for the Chinese cruise market, began her journey to her home port of Shanghai, China this week, as she departed the MEYER WERFT shipyard in Papenburg, Germany on Sunday, March 26 for her approximately 14-hour long conveyance along the Ems River. Norwegian Joy’s river conveyance marks another…

Van Oord has ordered the construction of two state-of-the-art water injection vessels at Kooiman Marine Group. The new vessels will be multifunctional and will include systems that ensure optimal deployment. The first vessel will be commissioned in late 2020. Van Oord is the global market leader in water injection dredging. In order to retain this…

APM Terminals Poti and Poti New Terminals Consortium have submitted a conceptual design for a first stage construction permit for the expansion of the Poti Sea Port, Georgia. The plans were received by the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. “After high-level and in-depth negotiations with authorities, cargo owners, equity partners and financial…

The technology group Wärtsilä continues its active start-up collaboration by launching the next SparkUp Challenge for start-ups. This time the focus is on the energy field with Power-to-X technologies. The Smart Energy Challenge is based on Wärtsilä Energy Solution’s new vision for the energy market: ‘Towards a 100% renewable energy future’. Wärtsilä is determined to…

Italy’s abrupt refusal to dock a humanitarian vessel (MS Aquarius) carrying more than 600 immigrants have raised questions at several levels – Is it legal to refuse ships to dock?  Who is responsible for legal support of refugees? How welcoming should Europe be in such a situation? According to The United Nations Convention on the…

The Port of Los Angeles moved more cargo in 2018 than any time in its 111-year history, racking up 9,458,749 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), 1.2 percent more than 2017’s record-breaking year. It is the third consecutive year of record volumes for the nation’s #1 gateway for containerized trade and the most cargo moved annually by…