Guilty plea in MSC bribery case
APRIL 7, 2014 — A former vice president of a Chesapeake, Va., government contracting company pleaded guilty April 4 to conspiracy to pay bribes to public officials in exchange for favorable treatment
APRIL 7, 2014 — A former vice president of a Chesapeake, Va., government contracting company pleaded guilty April 4 to conspiracy to pay bribes to public officials in exchange for favorable treatment
APRIL 7, 2014 — Earlier this month Hydrex carried out bow thruster blade replacements on a 270-meter containership in Barcelona. After cracks were detected in the old blades, a condition of class
APRIL 7, 2014 — American Queen Steamboat Company’s American Empress was christened in downtown Portland, OR, Sunday. The 223-guest riverboat, the largest west of the Mississippi River, officially joins the company’s fleet
APRIL 4, 2014 — Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has strengthened its Singapore-based management team to reflect increased levels of business and a focus on expanding service provision across the Asia-Pacific region. Hege
APRIL 4, 2014 — Norway’s Simon Møkster Shipping has signed a contract with Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan. It covers the construction of a sister vessel to the Rolls-Royce UT-766 design wave-piercing platform
APRIL 4, 2014 — CIT Maritime Finance has provided a $46.4 million senior secured credit facility to Epic Gas Ltd. Headquartered in Singapore, Epic Gas owns and operates a fleet of seaborne
APRIL 4, 2014 — International Paint Ltd, Felling, U.K., has developed Intertrac. It is claimed to be the shipping industry’s first, patented applied for software system that enables shipowners and operators to
APRIL 4, 2014 — General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT, is being awarded an $11,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to the previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-4308) to incrementally fund previously exercised options to provide
APRIL 4, 2014 — Edison Chouest Offshore could face penalties in relation to the grounding of the mobile offshore drilling unit Kulluk on the eastern coast of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, on Dec.
APRIL 3, 2014 — The Virginia-class fast attack submarine John Warner (SSN 785) has reached the “pressure hull complete” construction milestone at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Newport News Shipbuilding, signifying that all