Remembering El Faro: One year on
OCTOBER 4, 2016 — One year after the sinking of the TOTE cargo ship El Faro, Rear Adm. Paul Thomas, Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy, USCG, yesterday posted the following It has
OCTOBER 4, 2016 — One year after the sinking of the TOTE cargo ship El Faro, Rear Adm. Paul Thomas, Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy, USCG, yesterday posted the following It has
OCTOBER 4, 2016 — Concordia Maritime is selling the IMOIIMAX tanker Stena Image to a large Japanese financial institution. The transaction is a sale and leaseback agreement, and the vessel will be
OCTOBER 4, 2016 — Huntington Ingalls Inc’s Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, Pascagoula, MS, is being awarded a $120,000,000 fixed-price-incentive modification to previously awarded contract N00024-16-C-2427 for additional long lead time material in support
OCTOBER 4, 2016 — Bjørn Jebsen, CEO of Jebsens, has been named President of InterManager, the International Ship Managers’ Association. He succeeds Gerardo Borromeo, Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Philippine Transmarine
OCTOBER 4, 2016 — Eastern Shipbuilding’s Allanton, FL, shipyard has launched the Ellis Island, the barge component of the Articulated Tug & Barge (ATB) hopper dredge it has under construction for Great
OCTOBER 3, 2016 — Less than a year after a whale watching vessel operated by Jamie’s Whaling Station, Tofino, BC, capsized with the loss of six lives (see earlier story) another of
OCTOBER 3, 2016 — Aaron W. Hendry, husband, father and grandfather, as well as a noted Florida business leader, died today at the age of 80. Aaron passed away peacefully in his
OCTOBER 3, 2016 — Back in August Maersk Supply Service said it was shedding up to 20 vessels from its legacy fleet and making around 400 crew members redundant. Today, the other
OCTOBER 3, 2016 — Damen Shiprepair Van Brink Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, has completed a three-week repair project on the Jumbo Javelin, a DP2 Heavy Lift Crane Vessel owned and operated by
OCTOBER 3, 2016 — Denmark’s DFDS has signed a contract with China’s Jinling shipyard for two 235 m RO/RO cargo ships, each with a lane meter capacity of 6,700 m, corresponding to