In the morning of 11th January 2013, the Force Commander of the EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR), Rear Admiral Pedro García de Paredes held a meeting on board his flagship ESPS Méndez Núnez with the Commander of the Combined Maritime counter-piracy task force, Commodore Muhammad Hisham SI (Pakistan Navy). Commodore Hisham and Rear Admiral García [...]
Guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) arrived in the Gulf of Aden, April 8, to join with Combined Maritime Forces, Combined Task Force (CTF) 151. CTF 151, a multi-national, mission-based task force based in Bahrain, conducts counter-piracy operations in the Southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. “This is [...]
In June this year OOO Liebherr-Russland and OOO Lukoil–Kaliningradmorneft signed a contract for a new combined mobile harbour and offshore crane to be delivered by the end of 2012. The new crane is designed for two completely different types of application: on the one hand, the TCC 14000-400 D Litronic® can be used in harbours [...]
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Cruise vessel operators and agents in Singapore are seething over what they view to be an unjustified, unexplained, peremptory increase in docking fees at the nation’s cruise terminals. The scale of the increase is further exacerbating the furore; at ten times the original amount, cruise vessels and their principals would now need to pay US$257 [...]
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A rare whale was discovered wedged on to the bow of a cruise ship when it docked in a Canadian port. The 70ft fin whale, a threatened species in Canada, was found when the Sapphire Princess docked at the Port of Vancouver, the cruise company said. It said it had “strict whale avoidance” measures and [...]
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![Cargotec Receives an Order for 12 RTGs from Brazil]()
Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has received an order for 12 E-One rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes from South America’s largest container terminal operator, Santos Brasil S/A, operating at the Port of Santos. The 7+1 wide and 1-over-6 high units will come equipped with Kalmar’s auto-steering and container position verification system, [...]
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![Christening Damen River Tanker 1145, yardnumber 9364]()
Yardnumber 9364 arrived mid-November 2006 by means of a tug trip of 30 hours in Dunkerque and is taken into service. Because the
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