NDM has developed a flexible and cost effective system for moving and securing cargo onboard offshore vessels. The system, which has been named CSS (Cargo Securing System), can move cargo at any kind of required position along the cargo deck and also secure cargo at any kind of required position. The system is designed to [...]
On the morning of 8 January 2012, one of the permanent mooring lines holding the general cargo ship Tycoon in position in the inner moorings at Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, came free from its anchor. As a result, the ship moved forward and closer to the nearby terminal rock face, eventually making contact with [...]
Three people have died and four have been hospitalized after a cargo ship, identified as Jolly Nero of the Italian shipping line Ignazio Messina & C., crashed into a control tower on Tuesday night at around 23:00 in the Italian port of Genoa, BBC News reports citing Italian media. Accordingly, ten people were in the [...]
Global heavy lift and transportation providers BigLift Shipping and RollDock Shipping announced on May 6 the formation of a joint company, BigRoll, which will operate two newbuild MC-Class Module Carriers for the transportation of ultra large and heavy modular cargoes by sea. The Module Carriers will be available as of the end of 2014 / [...]
No one was injured when a fire broke out on DFDS ‘combined freight and passenger vessel VICTORIA SEAWAYS during the night between Kiel, Germany and Klaipeda in Lithuania. The fire was observed on the ship’s main deck at 00:52, when the ship was about 22 nautical miles from Nexø on Bornholm. The ship´s extinguishing system [...]
The ‘A’ rated 170 million GT North P&I club has experienced an increase in claims arising from poor stowage and securing of break bulk cargoes, particularly on ships departing from China. Such cargoes – typically of bags and timber as well as construction components and plant – can put people, cargo and vessels at risk [...]
Nass Marine Services, a marine division of the Nass Group, has recently handed over a competed project that involved the fabrication of a new deck cargo barge to Ocean Diving & Marine Services that is owned and operated by Mr. Samir Engineer in the Kingdom. The vessel, Ocean 8 was fabricated to include a new [...]
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder, today announced that it has developed a high performance Hyundai Membrane LNG Cargo Containment System. The shipbuilding giant’s new membrane type containment system for liquefied natural gas received Design Approval from classification societies including ABS and DNV. The containment system useable for LNG carriers, LNG FPSO, LNG [...]
Military Sealift Command-chartered ships concluded cargo operations April 2 in Port Hueneme, Calif., for Operation Deep Freeze, the annual Joint Task Force Support for Antarctica. MSC-chartered container ship MV Ocean Giant arrived in Port Hueneme March 27 and began offloading more than 500 pieces of cargo. The cargo included containers filled with retrograde materials such [...]
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured orders worth around EUR 10 million to deliver comprehensive RoRo cargo access equipment for four 6,700 unit Pure Car/Truck Carriers (PCTCs) to be built in China. The order for two of the vessels was received from Samjin Shipbuilding and the order for the other two was received from Jinling [...]
