Combi Lift completes first phase project in Russia

Combi Lift completes first phase project in Russia

Thanks to detailed planning by Combi Lift’s project management team in Bremen and tight monitoring by Combi Lift’s on-site team in Russia, discharging was finalised on September 16, 2018. The Linde Group hired Combi Lift to be the exclusive logistics partner for oversized and heavy lift cargo for the Gazprom Amur GPP Project. The transport…

DNV GL ends operations in Iran by 4th November

DNV GL ends operations in Iran by 4th November

After the international sanctions against Iran were lifted in 2016, DNV GL reopened its office in Tehran. During these two years, we have mainly delivered classification services to international shipping companies. In May the United States government announced reintroduction of sanctions against Iran in two stages, on 6 August and 4 November 2018, respectively. A…

NIMASA Commences Rescue Mission Of Crew On Board Hijacked Vessel

NIMASA Commences Rescue Mission Of Crew On Board Hijacked Vessel

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has commenced search rescue operations for the abducted 12 crew members onboard MV GLARUS owned by ALLISON Shipping which was hijacked off Bonny Island in Rivers State to ensure that they are found and released unconditionally. Speaking in Lagos on Monday, the Director-General of the Agency, Dr….

Boskalis To Reduce CO2 Emissions By Using Sustainable Biofuel On Borssele Renewable Energy Project

Boskalis To Reduce CO2 Emissions By Using Sustainable Biofuel On Borssele Renewable Energy Project

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) will use a biofuel blend on the project to install the export cable to the Borssele offshore wind farm resulting in a more sustainable realization of this renewable energy project. The Borssele Alpha project is being executed on behalf of TenneT and is aimed at connecting the Borssele offshore grid…

KONGSBERG to supply integrated technology for new heavy lift crane vessel

KONGSBERG to supply integrated technology for new heavy lift crane vessel

Kongsberg Maritime has secured an approx. US $13 million contract to equip a new heavy lift crane vessel for Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) with an appropriately innovative technology suite. The vessel, a customised Ulstein Design & Solutions BV design, marks the entry of the Norway-based Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) into the offshore renewables and installation…

Upgraded Wärtsilä EGC test facilities in Norway inaugurated

Upgraded Wärtsilä EGC test facilities in Norway inaugurated

The technology group Wärtsilä has inaugurated the upgrading of the company’s test facilities located in Moss, Norway. The inauguration ceremony took place on September 17. The facilities in Moss are central to the development of Wärtsilä’s Exhaust Gas Cleaning (EGC) offering, which has an industry-leading market share of more than 40 percent. The upgrading project…

Georgia Ports Plan 8 Million TEU Capacity By 2028

Georgia Ports Plan 8 Million TEU Capacity By 2028

At the Savannah State of the Port event today, GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch thanked Governor Deal for his leadership and detailed GPA’s 10-year, $2.5 billion plan to expand the capacity of the nation’s fastest growing and single largest container terminal from 5.5 million twenty-foot equivalent unit containers (TEUs) to 8 million. “We’re preparing to redefine…

Shanghai International Port Witnesses Container throughput Surge

Shanghai International Port Witnesses Container throughput Surge

The container transport capacity of Shanghai International Port, which is the busiest container port in the world, has surged more than 5,000 times since China began implementing the reform and opening-up policy in 1978. in 2017,  the container throughput of the company, which operates all the public container and bulk terminals in the port of…

Pirates kidnap 12 men from ship off the coast of Nigeria

Pirates kidnap 12 men from ship off the coast of Nigeria

Sea Pirates have kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss merchant vessel on 22nd September off the coast of Nigeria. There is no news regarding the safety of the crew. Massoel Shipping, the operator of MV Glarus, said the vessel carrying wheat was traveling between the southwestern commercial capital Lagos and southern Niger Delta oil…

Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Celebrates Two Millionth Cruise Passenger

Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Celebrates Two Millionth Cruise Passenger

Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, operated by Worldwide Cruise Terminals, celebrated the arrival of its two millionth cruise ship passenger during the World Dream’s turnaround call. The occasion coincided with the eve of Hong Kong’s Mid-Autumn Festival, a general holiday and also one of the most important cultural festivals of the year in Hong Kong….