Central Industry Group (CIG), a group of 10 companies all providing industrial goods and services to the international shipbuilding market and to complex architectural projects, announced entering into offshore wind market. Tailored to the client’s requirements, CIG’s high-quality products are renowned for their added value. While operating independently in their own product market combinations, CIG [...]
Epic Pantheon International Gas Shipping Ltd. announced today that shipping industry veteran Lars Vang Christensen has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. “Lars Christensen is a proven leader in the shipping industry and brings over 30 years of commercial and technical expertise to Epic,” stated Seth Wilson, the Chairman of Epic’s Board of Directors and a [...]
The European Commission has today launched a new initiative to improve port operations and onward transport connections at 319 key seaports along Europe’s coastline. The guidelines and legal changes being proposed will help port operators upgrade their services and facilities as well as giving them more financial autonomy. 74% of the goods entering or leaving [...]
With funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and supported by “Projektträger Jülich” (PTJ), over the next three years Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and the maritime engineering company HeavyLift@Sea will conduct research into the improvement of tools for the simulation of offshore crane operations. The project is named HoOK – [...]
At the 27th Annual Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards of Cargonews Asia, Hamburg Süd was awarded the title “Best Green Service Provider – Shipping Line” for the second time after 2012. The award ceremony took place in Beijing on 9 May in front of some 300 high-ranking representatives of the shipping, transport and logistics [...]
FMC Technologies has entrusted RINA Group’s company, RINA Services, with the Technology Qualification of its new technology loading arms designed for installation on the FSRU Toscana and also the Chiksan Articulated Tandem Offshore Loader (ATOL) marine loading arms. Both feature innovative technologies to transfer LNG in a marine environment, and both are now qualified to [...]
The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command celebrated National Maritime Day at a ceremony co-hosted with the U.S. Maritime Administration at MARAD’s headquarters May 22. Over 200 government and maritime industry leaders and guests attended the commemoration. In 1933, Congress established May 22 as National Maritime Day. The day officially honors the contributions and sacrifices of [...]
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced that COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered one bulk carrier of 57000DWT, “OCEAN LADY” and one bulk carrier of 82000DWT, “DL ACACIA”, respectively to its European and Asian buyers. The delivery documents [...]
Nam Cheong Limited, a leading global offshore marine player listed on the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited and Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel builder, recently announced appointment of Mr Leong Seng Keat as the Group’s Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Mr Leong was Nam Cheong’s Executive Director, and the new [...]
ASP Ship Management Australia has recently been appointed managers for CSIRO Australia’s new marine research vessel RV Investigator, and will provide a full range of crew and technical management services . The new vessel will replace the 40 year old RV Southern Surveyor. The contract was signed at a formal ceremony at the CSIRO Marine [...]
