Here’s something else to use your smart phone for. Shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries has launched what it says is the world’s first mobile after-sales services (A/S) for ships. Called m-PASS, enables shipowners
Norway’s Ulstein Group has established a new company, Ulstein IDEA Equipment Solutions. This company will take over the activities of former IDEA Heavy Equipment b.v, a Dutch company with which Ulstein has
Paris-headquartered offshore services giant Bourbon reports second quarter and first half revenues that include an 18.8 percent growth in half-year revenues to 482.7 million euros at current exchange rates and an increase
DNV Petroleum Services (DNVPS) reports that Fritz Jakob Fredriksen has joined the company as a Principal Consultant. In his new role, he will be advising shipping companies on a wide range of
Genesis Energy, L.P. (NYSE:GEL) announced today that it has completed a previously announced acquisition of the black oil barge transportation business of Mandeville, La., headquartered Florida Marine Transporters, Inc. and its affiliates
Shipowners with vessels trading to China are going to have a relatively short time frame in which to enter into a pollution clean-up contract with a pollution response contractor approved by China’s
Costa Cruises has contracted the San Giorgio del Porto shipyard in Genoa, Italy, for a major renovation of the 53,000-ton, 1,697 guest cruise ship Costa Romantica. The line, a Carnival Corporation brand,
Citing sustained high fuel prices, downward rate pressure and overcapacity in the Transpacific trade, Matson reports that it is discontinuing in late August its expanded China – Long Beach Express containership service
Hillside, N.J., headquartered Donjon Marine Co. has added the 2,400 hp-class tug Caitlin Ann to its growing fleet to support the company’s dredging, marine salvage, bulk material transportation and marine demolition services.
According to German press reports, the sale of the non-military operations of Hamburg shipbuilder and repairer Blohm + Voss to a British financial investor is getting closer. In July, parent ThyssenKrupp AG
