Around 700 guests on board EUROPA 2, a modern and casual luxury ship, enjoyed a brilliant fireworks display to round off the ship’s christening ceremony in style. After the christening ceremony, the star act Dick Brave & the Backbeats created a party atmosphere with their rockabilly music. The following video bring you a glimpse of [...]
When the MV “Conmar Avenue”, a 151 meter long feeder vessel, encountered a collision this week in the vicinity of Bremerhaven, and as consequence ran aground and lost 14 containers stored on deck, KOTUG offered assistance provided by its tugs RT Darwin and RT Pioneer. These two Rotor Tugs feature a bollard pull of 84 [...]
Lomar has announced acquisition of four container vessels and three chemical tankers. The 2,500 TEU Luna built in 2002 and the 1,100 TEU Stadt Muenchen built in 1999 have been acquired for an undisclosed sum. CEO of Lomar, Achim Boehme, stated: “These acquisitions further assert our commitment to the container vessel sector having placed orders [...]
In line with the motto “Great moments. Truly exclusive.” the newly- built EUROPA 2 has been christened in celebratory and stylish fashion by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises on 10 May 2013, during the 824th HAMBURG PORT ANNIVERSARY. Godmother Dana Schweiger smashed the champagne bottle against the bow of the ship near Blankenese, Hamburg. The special invitees on [...]
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) will be organizing the IAPH (International Association of Ports and Harbors) World Ports Conference – the internationally most significant conference of the port industry – in Hamburg in 2015. Hamburg will take up the role of the next host city for the first time at this year’s conference, held in [...]
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Rolls-Royce has delivered advanced deck machinery system for a highly specialised new Amazon-class seismic research vessel for WesternGeco, which is under construction at Flensburger Shipyard in Germany. The contract includes the supply of a control and back deck system for towing and handling of 18 streamer cables and a range of towing and handling equipment [...]
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To help launch the anniversary of the Port of Hamburg, AIDA Cruises and Becker Marine Systems have announced that they have ordered motors for their LNG Hybrid Barge. This is the companies’ starting signal for construction of the floating power station that will enable an environmentally friendly energy supply of cruise ships during layover times [...]
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No one was injured when Maersk Kalmar and Conmar Avenue container ships collided yesterday at 16:00 near Bremerhaven, Germany. Conmar Avenue, sailing under the flag of Antigua Barbuda lost several containers in the incident and subsequently ran aground. The container ship has been re-floated with the tug assistance and is now being towed to Bremerhaven. [...]
Tognum subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen yesterday held a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction work on a new R&D test facility at Plant 1. The company plans to invest more than €60 million in the project by 2015. In future, technicians will be able to run function tests on newly developed engines on [...]
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MAN Diesel & Turbo has signed a significant maintenance agreement with German shipowner Rörd Braren. The EMC (Engine Management Concept) agreement covers three ships from the German fleet and is the first such example of this type of agreement in several years. The company reports that the successful cooperation and knowledge sharing between its Hamburg [...]
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