Orion Marine Group, Inc., a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today announced a contract award of approximately $13 million. Orion Marine Group’s wholly owned subsidiary, King Fisher Marine Service, LP., was recently awarded a contract by Cameron Parish to dred
Abanaki Corporation, the world leader in oil skimming and coolant maintenance products, announced the second-edition of its Solutions Sourcebook for oil skimming applications. The newly expanded 43-page handbook offers application notes and photos of 40 real-world implementations of oil skimming. Ab
Infrastructure investment group International Public Partnerships Limited said Transmission Capital Partners, the consortium comprising… (onenewspage) [mappress] Source: onenewspage, August 06, 2010;
Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) business has been witnessing a rapid growth since 2005 and has now emerged as one of the leading desti… pr-inside [mappress] Source: pr-inside , August 6, 2010;
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (NYSE:GNK) today announced that it has taken delivery of the Genco Loire, a 2009-built Supramax vessel. The Genco Loire is the second of 13 vessels to be delivered to the Company under Genco’s agreement previously announced on June 25, 2010 to acquire 13 Supramax ves
New Zealand will boost the monitoring of Pacific fisheries to help an industry that loses more than NZ$400 million (US$291.5 million) a year because of poor enforcement. Prime Minister John Key, in Vanuatu for the Pacific Islands Forum, this week announced a rise of NZ$4.8 million (US$3.49 million)
SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, is one of the exhibitors at the Husum Wind Energy 2010 Trade Fair in Husum, Germany. The services offered by SGS Global Competence Center Renewable Energy will be presented throughout the exhibition at stand no. 3A
Throughput figures for breakbulk cargo (steel, non-ferrous metals, paper and timber, fruit, project cargo) in the first half of 2010 were 18% up on the same period of 2009, at 3.3 million tonnes. Although the crisis continues to leave its mark in Rotterdam too, the recovery is more marked here than
Cruise Planners/American Express, the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise network in the cruise industry, today reported an 80 percent increase in agent accreditation with supplier partners since the company launched Cruise Planners University (CPU) in November 2009.
INTERTANKO calls for the prosecution of the Somali pirates whose attack on the Norwegian 40,085 dwt chemical tanker Bow Saga in the Gulf of Aden Internationally Recognised Transit Corridor was frustrated by the Spanish frigate Victoria, where the pirates are now being detained.
Hess Corporation announced today that it has agreed to sell $1.25 billion of notes with a 5.60% coupon maturing on February 15, 2041 in a registered public offering led by Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and RBS Secu
According to DNV’s summer students, LNG could easily become the most feasible means of fuel in short sea shipping. The students’ report was… motorship [mappress] Source : motorship , August 6, 2010;
The Japanese tanker M. Star was the subject of a terrorist attack when it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on July 28, reports the United Arab Emirates state news agency quoting a source close to the investigation. ”A responsible source at the UAE Coast Guard said that investigations and an exami
Petrobras and mining giant Vale notified the country’s National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, that a well in the Espirito Santos Basin tested positive for natural gas. The find was listed on the oil regulator’s Web site early Thursday. The discovery was made at the 1BRSA826AESS well at the offshore ES-M
