The merchant vessel Beluga Nomination was captured by pirates on Saturday. The ship was attacked by armed pirates from a skiff, 722km north of the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean.
Holland Shipbuilding Magazine has been completely transformed to a new sector wide magazine: Maritime by Holland Magazine. Today, Navingo BV has proudly presented its first edition to prof. dr. ing. Niko Wijnolst (chairman Stichting Nederland Maritiem Land). The English magazine comes out 8 times a
Specialist oil and gas supply and service company L&N (Scotland) have appointed Craig Finnie to Operations Director while Mike McArtney takes on a new role as Business Development Director. Mr Finnie has been with L&N for nine years, most recently as operations manager, and will have responsibility
Shippers have hit out at carriers anxious to meet new EU regulations for demanding information too early. The regulation requires shipping companies to submit information, such as bill of lading number and shipper and consignee name and address, 24 hours before loading onto a vessel that will call a
Tianjin Dongqi Wind Turbine Blade Co. LTD received their first GL Shop Approval from GL Renewables Certification (GL) for the production of rotor blades fabricated from fibre reinforced plastics. Based in Tianjin, China, Dongqi at present is the only rotor blade manufacturer in China with GL Shop Ap
The shortsea container shipping organisation Coastlink Network is to stage three conferences in 2011, providing its members and friends with expanded opportunities for networking and enabling it to cover a wider range of subjects, both technically and geographically. Starting the ball rolling will b
VISTAGY, Inc., a leading provider of industry-specific engineering software and services, today announced that its revenues grew 29 percent and product license sales expanded 36 percent in 2010 as the company realized the benefits of developing comprehensive solutions by industry and its investment
Eni announces today that it has been awarded participation and operatorship of Block 35 by the Angolan Juri for the bid round, composed of representatives from the Ministry of Petroleum, Sonangol and the Ministry of Finance. The block is located in deepwater offshore Angola, 150 km off the coast of
De Hoop Lobith completes 3-year yard renewal program including De Hoop Shiprepair Shipyard De Hoop is a Dutch Shipyard with an impressive history. The company is strong in custom-build sea-going vessels as well as inland vessels. Virtually, any vessel, up to 200 x 60 meter, can be completely enginee
VSD, LLC (VSD) has been awarded a contract from Naval Air Warfare Center, Training Systems Division, Orlando, Fla., to provide the design, fabrication, installation, and testing of the Iraqi navy training systems and the training development and delivery for the 60-Meter Offshore Support Vessel (OSV
Aubrey Price, Executive Director of C&C Technologies (South Africa), has been elected Chairman of the six-member International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) in succession to William Heaps, Assistant Marine Advisor & Hydrographic Manager of Associated British Ports (ABP); also elected,
An excavator formed an unusual yet highly effective partnership with a dredging vessel on the Lincolnshire coast in England last summer. Working on the Lincshore project, the Hitachi ZX470LCH-3 crawler excavator and trailing suction hopper dredger, Vlaanderen XX, have helped to ensure that future ge
Ravestein B.V. has announced that it has been awarded for the design and construction of a Backhoe Dredger, type Ravestein 900B. At the end of November 2010, DEME gave the order for this type of Backhoe Dredger. DEME (Dredging, Environmental & Marine Engineering) is a Belgian company that is well kn
The HydroPEAK project in Norway is researching the interaction between wind and water power. As well as evaluating the current role of… (waterpowermagazine) [mappress] Source: waterpowermagazine, January 26, 2011
