Simple, cost-effective preventive measures to protect ships from pirates can be put in place in a matter of hours, according to Paul Friedberg, President of Goltens Worldwide Services. Goltens offers a service
Los Angeles headquartered N.E.I. Treatment Systems reports a major ballast water treatment milestone: the successful commissioning during sea trial of the world’s highest capacity BWTS installed and operating anywhere in the world.
Classification society Bureau Veritas has cut the reporting time for a Condition Assessment Program (CAP) report from three months to one month and has also improved the accessibility and usability of the
Pirate attacks on the world’s seas totaled 266 in the first six months of 2011, up from 196 incidents in the same period last year, according to the International Chamber of Commerce
The Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has unanimously endorsed the decision of a Panel of Judges that the 2011 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea should go to Captain
NYSE listed DHT Holdings, Inc. is to offer to acquire all of the shares of Oslo Axess listed Saga Tankers ASA (“Saga”). The Board of Directors of Saga has agreed to recommend
China’s Yangzijiang Shipbuilding today reported record high quarterly earnings for the three months ended March 31 2011 … and made it clear that capacity expansion is still very much part of its
BOEMRE yesterday approved a fourth deepwater drilling permit that complies with the onerous new safety standards implemented in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill. These standards include
Eight Very Large Crude Carriers are achieving Very Large Carbon Cuts. A detailed performance analysis of a National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) tanker confirms that the company has achieved substantial
