Delays to new Royal Navy destroyers may have “deeply worrying implications” for the UK’s defence, MPs have warned. The first Type 45 destroyer is set to enter service later this year, more than two years late, £1.5bn over budget, and not fully operational. The vessels are being built in component “b
Residents of a Suffolk town have reported smelling gas after a ship vented fumes offshore. Energy company Transco said people in Lowestoft had been contacting their call centre with reports of the smell. Suffolk Fire Service said the cause was a gas cloud coming from an empty tanker which had vented
SgurrEnergy has opened an office in Scrabster Harbour, Scotland, as part of an expansion drive that will create several skilled jobs in the area over the next 18 months. The Glasgow-based renewable-energy consultancy said that the branch will focus on providing full project lifecycle services for wi
Last week the construction started of Heerema Marine Contractors’ (HMC) Marine Supply Base in Porto Amboim, Angola. The Marine Supply Base will be developed in joint venture with Angolan company Cembir Maritime Construction. The base is expected to become operational in June 2010 and will support th
Sunday marked the 500th day of operation of the Channel Deepening Project, Victoria’s largest marine infrastructure project and the biggest and most complex in the Port of Melbourne’s 150 year history. Dredging operations as part of the project began on 8 February 2008. To date, some 19 million cubi
Galbraith’s has appointed Nick Hubbard as its new MD. The shipbroker and consultancy company said the appointment would help further expansion
Multimodal firm Seafast Logistics has moved its warehousing operation to new premises in the port of Tilbury, partly to capitalise on an expected growth in traffic linked to the 2012 Olympics. The move means Seafast has doubled its capacity at Tilbury to 18,600sq metres. Seafast MD David Halliday, s
Maersk Line has announced plans to increase rates by US$250 per teu on its services from north-east and south-east Asia to New Zealand from 15 July. “The rate increase is necessary to continue to operate our services with the high level of reliability our customers have come to expect from Maersk Li
Singapore’s APL saw container volumes improve marginally in the four weeks from 2 to 29 May, compared with April. According to figures from its parent company, NOL, it carried 318,200teu in May, up 0.7% on April. However, year-to-year, volumes were down 21% and average revenue fell 23%.
Datema Delfzijl BV has a global first: on Tuesday 9 June it launched a nautical revolution in the field of maritime navigation during the opening day of Nor-Shipping in Oslo. Navigation in commercial shipping will never be the same. The nautical specialists from Delfzijl, the Netherlands, have succe
Alewijnse Marine Systems recently received a double order by De Haas Yards in Maassluis, the Netherlands, for a complete refit of two patrol vessels for Port of Rotterdam. For both the RPA 14 and the seagoing patrol vessel RPA 15 most elements of the electrical installation will be renewed, includin
An official visit by the Governor of Alabama to Austal’s Western Australian shipyard has underlined the mutually-beneficial relationship that exists between the two parties.The visit by Governor Bob Riley allowed Austal to recognise the State of Alabama’s support during the establishment of its US s
We are pleased to announce that Jesper Cramon takes up the position as Head of Group Accounting of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group on 1 August 2009, replacing Per Møller, who retires after 22 years with the Group. Jesper Cramon (40) joined the Group in 2003. Jesper has held various positions in Group
The average detention percentage appears to have stabilized over the past four years at around 5%. A serious matter: in 1 out of every 20 inspections a ship is not allowed to proceed to sea. More worrying is an increasing trend in the number of deficiencies between 2005 and 2008 of 34%. This implies
