Hoek Brokerage is pleased to announce their appointment as the central agent for the sale of the 80ft S&S Tempest. Tempest is a historic ocean racer designed by Sparkman & Stephens as one of the largest and fastest sailing yachts of her time. With the revival of various Cup’s and Regatta’s and other
On Tuesday May 26 Shell announced a series of changes to senior management roles and responsibilities, aimed at sharper focus on operating performance and technology. The changes will be effective as of 1st July 2009. Peter Voser, who takes over from Jeroen van der Veer as ring new projects and deve
An international conference is being held in Cairo to discuss the growing problem of piracy. The meeting brings together experts in security, shipping and insurance as well as government representatives from 20 countries. At the same time, another anti-piracy conference is being hosted in London.
Neste Oil has begun building a €670m (£582m) renewable diesel plant in the Port of Rotterdam, which, once completed, will be the largest facility of its kind in Europe. It will have an annual production capacity of 800,000 metric tonnes of diesel. The plant will make use of the company’s proprietary
Alstom and E.ON Benelux have agreed on a contract to provide a steam turbine unit for the new fossil-fuel power plant at Maasvlakte power station in the Netherlands. The new power plant, located near the North Sea and the Rotterdam harbour, will be able to co-fire biomass and is being designed for r
Heerema Vlissingen and HFG Engineering, both operating companies of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands have successfully executed the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract with ABB in Sweden for the fabrication of a 400 MW offshore HVDC-station in the
WorthyMind Nigeria Limited, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, recently deployed ARL’s e-Yield Suite, thereby offering self-service transportation enquiries, online freight quotes and bookings for WorthyMind’s import services to Nigeria. WorthyMind Nigeria Limited Managing Director, Mr. Austin Imevbor
“Baraka”, the latest 53-metre yacht built by Baglietto at La Spezia shipyard was designed by Francesco Paszkowski Design. The yacht is the third one of the 53-meter displacement motor-yacht series, whose first yacht was Blue Scorpion. “Baraka”, a four-deck yacht with a steel hull and an aluminium su
On 7 May 2009 the cash dividend of Fugro N.V. for 2008 was set at EUR 1.50 per (certificate of an) ordinary share. The dividend could either be paid fully in cash or fully in (certificates of) ordinary shares, such at the choice of the holder. The number of dividend rights that entitles to one [&hel
A cruise ship carrying 2,000 passengers has been ordered to stay at sea off the coast of Australia after three crew tested positive for swine flu. The P&O Pacific Dawn, currently moored off Queensland, will now return to a major port rather than continue with its planned voyage, officials said. The
Marseilles’ Fos terminal has increased its year-on-year container throughput over the first four months of the year. The container throughput at Fos increased 1% year-on-year between January and April to 225,726teu –however, the terminal’s throughput was affected last April when dock workers went on
Shipping lines NYK and NileDutch are launching a new direct service between Asia, South Africa and west Africa on 17 June. The twice-monthly service will have a rotation of Shanghai, Shekou, Durban, Lome, Tema and Lagos, with two vessels of 2,200teu and 2,700teu. NYK Europe’s liner division senior t
Shipping line’s Hamburg Süd and Aliança are increasing the size of vessels that operate their South America east coast, Caribbean, Central America and US-Gulf Coast UCLA service, and updating its rotation. The two-loop service was previously operated using 12 1,700 to 2,500teu ships, but from 7 June
Scottish Viking, specially-commissioned to serve Norfolkline’s new Rosyth-Zeebrugge route, made its first journey up the Firth of Forth on 19 May. Scottish Viking will reinstate Scotland’s only continental ferry line and will initially operate three sailings a week each way, although Norfolkline has
