UBC And Baltrader To Form Joint Cement Carrier Alliance It has been announced by the two market leaders in cement shipping that they will jointly market their respective fleets of pneumatic cement carriers. The newly launched Cement Carrier Alliance (CCA) is cooperated by Hamburg-based Baltrader and Philadelphia-based United Bulk Carriers (UBC). Offering a wider range…
Samsung Heavy Industries Receives Orders For Two Eco-Friendly S-Max Tankers On July 11, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) revealed about a deal it won, worth of a combined 147 billion to build two S-Max tankers from Panamanian shipowner. The ships are expected to be delivered by March 2021. The main focus of the newly ordered tankers…
Damen Signs MLU Contract With Netherlands Ministry Of Defence On 11th July, Damen Shipyards Den Helder and Netherlands Ministry of Defence signed a midlife upkeep (MLU) contract. The support ship HNLMS Pelikaan, along with hydrographic survey vessels HNLMS Snellius and HNLMS Luymes, all of the Royal Netherlands Navy, are heading to Damen Shipyards Den Helder…
Indian Government Sets Contingency Plan To Safeguard Interest Of Indian Crew Members A mechanism has been set by the government to safeguard the interest of Indian crew members on board Indian or foreign ships and sailing vessels especially in exigencies like a pirate hijacking or fatal accidents. In reply to a question in Lok Sabha,…
JFD Completes Mating Trials Of Its Portable Hyperbaric Reception Facility For TechnipFMC JFD, which is the world leading underwater capability provider serving the commercial and defense diving markets, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has successfully completed rigorous mating trials of its latest Portable Hyperbaric Reception Facility (PHRF) for TechnipFMC, a global leader…
Maritime Minister Sets Ambition Of Zero-Emission Capable Ships In UK Waters By 2025 UK Maritime Minister, Nusrat Ghani, has set ambitious plans about designing zero-emission capable technologies for all new ships for UK waters ordered from 2025, to cut pollution from the country’s maritime sector. The commitment is published in the Clean Maritime Plan on…
SC Ports Reports Handling Record Cargo Volumes With 9% Increase In FY19 At the Port of Charleston in the fiscal year 2019, South Carolina Ports Authority handled record cargo volumes. From July 2018 through June, SCPA handled nearly 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) with an 8.8% increase in annual TEU container volume. Also…
Vattenfall And Echandia Marine Develops Solution For Electric Ferries With Minimal Emissions A new solution for electric ferries has been developed by Vattenfall and Echandia Marine. This solution is designed to minimize emissions and noise and at the same time lower operational and maintenance costs and also provide super fast charging. The systems can be…
SCF Marks Significant CO2 Reductions In The First Year Of Operating LNG-Fuelled Oil Tankers PAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has accumulated data since taking delivery of the first of its ‘Green Funnel’ LNG-fuelled Aframax crude oil tankers a year ago, in July 2018. The data collected shows that using LNG as a primary fuel for these…
Subsea 7 Announces Equinor Awards For Offshore & Installations Operations The award of a sizeable (1) contract by Equinor (2) has been announced by Subsea 7 for installation and diving operations on the Europipe II, Heimdal and Statfjord (EHS) fields, located in the Danish and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. The engineering, procurement, construction…
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