Eighty-eight staff at a port in Kent have had their jobs transferred to other companies following a decision announced last summer. The landside services affected at the Port of Dover will now be undertaken by either P&O Ferries or labour supply company OCS. It follows the outsourcing by the port of
“It might seem surprising,” said Joel Rewa-Morgan, the Ericsson physiotherapist. “But they wanted to get straight back into it.” His words seemed inconceivable. It’s been barely four days since the Ericsson twins reached Rio de Janeiro at the front of the pack, the two quickest teams in a leg that m
Eight people have been killed and another eight are missing after a helicopter crashed in the sea off the north east Scottish coast. The Bond Super Puma aircraft was returning from an oil platform, just before 2pm, when it went down 35 miles from Aberdeenshire. A spokesperson for the Maritime and Co
Austal will build its largest catamaran to date following an order from Denmark’s Nordic Ferry Services for the design and construction of a 113 metre high speed vehicle-passenger ferry. The vessel will be built by Austal’s Western Australian workforce and is scheduled for delivery in 2011. Designed
Headlines – order book rises to € 2 billion; – 40% increase in revenue to € 1.1 billion; – profit before tax up to € 105 million; – four acquisitions completed of technology and engineering companies. Revenue and result IHC Merwede revenue increased sharply in 2008 to € 1.1 billion (2007: € 774 mill
It hasn’t been easy for the Telefonica Black and Delta Lloyd teams to watch the rest of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet race through the Southern Ocean to get to Rio. Both boats arrived here by ship, rather than under their own power, after suffering significant damage on the way to Qingdao during Leg 4.
The port of Dakar, Senegal, will launch a tender process to find a private operator for its newly built dry port before the end of June. The dry port, 2km inland from Dakar seaport, has been built by the port authority at a cost of CFA16bn (US$35m) to ease congestion at existing port facilities and
The port of Portland has announced that an investment of US$16.3m in federal stimulus grants will help to enhance its marine and aviation facilities. The port authority said the investment would help to create over 300 construction-related jobs and ensure the long-term effectiveness and efficiency o
The G20 summit in London will consider drastic action to revive the world economy. The BBC’s Europe editor, Mark Mardell, reports from Marseille on how the economic downturn has hit France’s biggest port. I can barely stand in the force of the wind blowing around the docks of Marseille’s container p
The merger of Noble Denton and Germanischer Lloyd forms a fully integrated technical assurance and consulting company to serve the worldwide energy industries. The new entity will provide assurance, inspection, and consulting as well as project management on a worldwide scale. It will focus its worl
Further to the previously announced commodity rate restoration for the 1 April 2009, Maersk Line will implement a commodity General Rate Increase effective 7 April 2009. The commodity increase will be USD 75 / FFE. The increase applies to all commodity based cargoes on the eastbound Europe to Asia t
Dutch dredging contractor Van Oord has announced that it is to sponsor a two-year project on climate change. Said Van Oord: “From 15 March 2009 through December 2010, Arjen van Eijk and Florian Dirkse of the Netherlands will set sail on an adventure and produce a documentary targeted at raising awar
Minimax is the only German company to be nominated for the Seatrade Awards 2009 with its Minifog marine XP. The new, efficient high-pressure water mist extinguishing system, offering an heretofore unknown level of operational safety on ships and meeting the current IMO guidelines, was listed in the
Blue Oceans Satellite Systems Inc. today announced its newest application for asset tracking and remote monitoring with the addition of its Explosives Regulatory Division (ERD)-Compliant Satellite-Based Explosive Magazine Monitoring Solution (EMMS). The solution, based on the system requirements of
