DECEMBER 18, 2017 — Damen Shipyards Group and Concordia Group have signed a joint venture agreement to cooperate in the construction and trade of inland waterway vessels. The joint venture will operate
DECEMBER 18, 2017 — Shipowners weighing up their future marine fuel choices after the 2020 IMO 0.5% sulfur cap should also consider oil company expectations that up to 30% of commercial shipping
DECEMBER 18, 2017 — Buckingham, U.K., headquartered Pen Test Partners LLP says that hackers could sink a bulk carrier by manipulating the loading data of its hull stress monitoring systems (HSMS) to
DECEMBER 15, 2017 — St. Catharines, Ontario, headquartered Algoma Central Corporation (TSX: ALC) has taken delivery of its latest self-unloader, the Algoma Innovator, from the Uljanik d.d. shipyard in Croatia. The vessel
DECEMBER 15, 2017 — DNV GL has published the first classification guideline for the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in the maritime and oil & gas industries. Additive manufacturing is a term
DECEMBER 15, 2017 — BIMCO and CIRM (Comité International Radio-Maritime) have sent the marine industry’s first proposal for an industry-wide standard for software maintenance for consideration at the February 2018 meeting of
DECEMBER 14, 2017 — Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, South Carolina, is being awarded a $7,086,832 firm fixed price contract for 42 calendar day shipyard availability for the mid-term availability of USNS
DECEMBER 14, 2017 — When Federal Maritime Commissioner William P. Doyle of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission announced that he would be leaving his post effective January 3, 2018, he concluded by
DECEMBER 14, 2017 — Rouen, France, based GIE Dragages-Ports has awarded Damen Shiprepair & Conversion a contract to convert the 117 m, 8,500 cu.m trailing suction hopper dredge Samuel de Champlain, to
DECEMBER 14, 2017 — Shanghai, China, headquartered Wison Offshore & Marine reports that its Wison LNG Distributor (LNGD) vessel design has received Approval in Principle from DNV GL. With scalable capacity between