With a core objective of further growing the UAE’s logistics sector, Supply Chain and Logistics Group (SCLG) gathered industry experts from over 15 countries to the ’5th Global Logistics and Supply Chain summit’ in Dubai last week. SCLG, a not for profit business group working under patronage of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is [...]
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In April, Cargotec secured new contracts to deliver MacGregor anchor-handling, mooring and towing solutions for 15 offshore support vessels (OSV) of various types being built in China for Asian customers. The ships are being built in several shipyards in China for delivery throughout 2013 and 2014 to Coastal Offshore, Nam Cheong, Ezion Holding and Middle [...]
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Pertamina, State Oil and Gas Company, unveils a plan to purchase 15 tanker vessels until 2014 to help it distribute refined fuel and LNG across Indonesia. As Pertamina spokesman Mochamad Harun said to Jakarta Globe, the company would buy the tankers at a total estimated price of $370 million in the next two years. [...]
During the winter navigation 2011-12 fifteen diesel electric icebreakers and one atomic icebreaker will be operating in the Gulf of Finland. The A-ship is affreighted for 100 days and it will set off from Murmansk for Saint Petersburg on the 23rd of January 2012. The vessel operation contract`s cost goes beyond 300 million rubles, said [...]
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Despite working in winds occasionally gusting above 40 knots, salvors have today removed 15 containers from the stern of the cargo vessel Rena, taking the total number of containers removed to 64. Maritime New Zealand Salvage Unit Manager Arthur Jobard said the salvage team had done well to remove so many containers in at times [...]
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Maersk Line Ltd. in Norfolk received a $15.3 million contract for the worldwide charter of one U.S.-flagged, Ice-class certified, double… (dailypress) Source: Dailypress , July 8, 2011;
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China Shipping Group Co., the nation’s second-largest sea-freight company, plans to buy “quite a few” dry-bulk ships this year on rising demand in Asia for shipments of iron ore and coal. “The shipping market has bottomed out from its worst period,” Li Shaode, the group’s president, said today in Beijing, where he was attending a [...]
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Drilling technology provider Plexus has landed a deal with British-based African operator Bowleven to provide its Pos-Grip downhole system for wells which are to be drilled offshore Cameroon.
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Australia has released graphic images of Japanese hunters harpooning whales and dragging bleeding carcases aboard a ship near Antarctica, calling it evidence of “indiscriminate” slaughter of the animals. Japan accused the Australian government of spreading propaganda that could damage ties between the two nations.
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