SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 — More countries are investigating suspected anti-competitive behavior by car carrier companies. Yesterday, news broke that the Fair Trade Commission, Japan’s anti-trust watchdog, is investigating more than 10 shipping
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 — The Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) family of companies has added to the aggressive newbuild campaign it first announced one year ago. ECO, which currently has 25 vessels under
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 — Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough Assembly has voted to put the experimental ferry Susitna up for sale, though it says it is open to other suggestions. As we reported
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 — About 1,200 non-union, salaried employees at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division are being offered buyout packages, according to media reports “We are offering a voluntary severance
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 — Rolls-Royce reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Certificate of Conformity for its C-engine range of marine gas engines. Neil Gilliver, President – Merchant,
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 — Norway’s Ulstein Verft has delivered Blue Prosper, the second of six medium-sized platform supply vessels of PX121 design that the shipyard is building for Ulstein Group subsidiary Blue
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 — Wilhelm Wilhelmsen said today that at 11.00 this morning Japan time, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics’ and EUKOR Car Carriers’ offices in Tokyo were visited by the Japan Fair Trade
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 —DOF Subsea’s DP2 Construction Support Vessel Skandi Hawk, delivered earlier this year by India’s Cochin Shipyard, continues to keep busy. It will be the offshore work platform for a
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 — VT Halter Marine’s parent, Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering), announced today that its marine sector has won shipbuilding and repair contracts worth about S$179 million (US$144 million).
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 — Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has launched a new software product, “GL EmissionManager,” that will allow shipowners and operators to collect, track and calculate the emissions of a
