Dubai Maritime City, the world-class mixed-use maritime cluster today announced that it received Stig Ulstein, CEO of Norwegian company Ulmatec (Ulstein Marine Technology AS) along with Haavard Myrene, Director Business Development who visited Dubai Maritime City. He met Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman of Drydocks World and Maritime World and Ali bin Towaih, VP-Business Development and [...]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President: Koichi Muto) today announced that a nine-member delegation from the government of India, headed by Milind Murli Deora, who serves as Minister of State for Communications, Information Technology and Shipping, visited MOL headquarters in Tokyo on April 9. The delegation met with MOL President Koichi Muto and several other [...]
Drydocks World, the leading shipyard in the Middle East engaged in ship repair, conversion, new building and offshore construction, hosted a delegation from the Government of Jamaica led by The Hon. G. Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce. Other members included Mr. Clive Fagan – Chairman of Factories Corporation of Jamaica, Dr. Eric [...]
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BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards Jacksonville LLC yesterday held a steel cutting ceremony for Jackson Offshore Operators’ two new platform supply vessels of GPA 675J design. The vessels, to be named M/V Thunder and M/V Breeze, will be 252-feet long and 60-feet wide. They will be equipped with two Azipull propulsion thrusters, tunnel thrusters, a low-voltage [...]
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Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) and Abu Dhabi Terminals (ADT) jointly hosted a workshop at the Rocco Forte Hotel, Abu Dhabi, for a large audience of their stakeholders, including members of shipping lines, trucking companies, as well as shipping, clearing and forwarding agents. The respective roles of ADPC as port authority and ADT as the [...]
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ABS, the leading provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, continues to help industry push back the technology barriers to Arctic operations through a series of Arctic workshops that are defining the region’s most pressing research and development (R&D) needs. “In the last few years there has been increasing interest in floating, drilling [...]
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Drydocks World, announced that the Company received Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz, CEO, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Germany. He was accompanied by Ms. Kirsten Staab, Director of the Hamburg Representative Office in Dubai. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz met Mr. Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman of Drydocks World and Maritime World, Mr. Ali Bin Towaih, VP – Business [...]
IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the 5,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger, DCI DREDGE XX, in a ceremony on 2 February 2013 at the company’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands. It is building the innovative vessel for Dredging Corporation of India Ltd (DCI). The ceremony was performed by Mrs R Mohanty, the spouse of [...]
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The International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (IMDEX Asia), Asia Pacific’s largest dedicated international maritime defence show, will play host to the first ever Asian edition of the International Naval Engineering Conference and Exhibition (INEC) in 2013. The event is organised by Experia Events in association with the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and [...]
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The naming ceremony of the 82,000 DWT Bulk Carrier ”Warsaw”, which was built in New Yangtz Shipyard and converted in Chengxi Shipyard Co., Ltd for SMT Company, was held at the No.5 Berth on Nov.15, 2012. Mr. Anthonius Voorham, owner of SMT, and Mrs. Mary Voorham, Mr Mark Voorham, CEO of SMT, and Mrs. Vanessa [...]
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