FMC Technologies has entrusted RINA Group’s company, RINA Services, with the Technology Qualification of its new technology loading arms designed for installation on the FSRU Toscana and also the Chiksan Articulated Tandem Offshore Loader (ATOL) marine loading arms. Both feature innovative technologies to transfer LNG in a marine environment, and both are now qualified to [...]
The keel laying of the largest cruise ship ever built for the British market took place yesterday, May 15 2013, at the Monfalcone shipyard of Fincantieri near Trieste, Italy. The P&O Cruises’ 141,000-ton cruise ship is scheduled to enter service in 2015. This next-generation ship will offer a stylish and innovative new design, with an [...]
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Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, announced that commercial and passenger traffic has resumed at the Port of Genoa, Italy, following the tragic Jolly Nero accident which brought down the Control Tower on Tuesday night. Commercial traffic resumed on the afternoon of May 9th as planned, with ferry and cruise traffic [...]
The death toll of the Jolly Nero accident, which brought down the Pilot Tower in Genoa, Italy has increased to seven people as reported by BBC News. Two people are still missing as the rescue operation continues. According to Ansa news agency, the vessel’s “black box” has been seized by investigators and it is believed [...]
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 [...]
Over 300 people gathered on the Zattere Adriatic waterfront in Venice to welcome the arrival of the Legend, the Carnival group’s new flagship, and toast the beginning of the new cruise season in the lagoon. A flashmob was organised by the Cruise Venice Committee, an association that promotes and supports cruise ship traffic in the [...]
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Comfortable, reliable, competitive. Dragflow, a world player in solid pumping solutions, announces the complete restyling of its dredges: a technical initiative to improve design, working conditions and process monitoring, building on our traditional strengths: pumping high solid concentrations, working at high depth and operating costs among the lowest on the market. In the new dredge [...]
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Desgagnés and its subsidiary Relais Nordik conducted on April 19, at the Port of Sept-Îles, the christening of the M/V Bella Desgagnés, a new vessel specially designed for and dedicated to the maritime service of Anticosti Island and the Lower North Shore. This event was held in the presence of many guests and dignitaries including [...]
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (“MSC”) has reached agreement with Global Infrastructure Partners and a group of its LP Co-Investors (“GIP”) to sell 35% of Terminal Investment Limited SA (“TIL”). Consideration is US$1.929 billion, including certain payments contingent on TIL’s future performance. Closing is expected to take place in the middle of the year and [...]
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Rosetti Marino SpA of Ravenna has delivered to Fratelli D’Amato SpA of Naples the new Platform Supply Vessel “FD UNBEATABLE”, the newest arrival presented by the Ravenna shipbuilder headed by Medardo Ranieri, built for the Shipping Company owned by Mr. Luigi D’Amato. Before taking on its current name, the UNBEATABLE was registered at the Ravenna [...]
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