APRIL 23, 2015 — Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. (NYSE: NM), Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA) and Navios Maritime Partners L.P. (NYSE: NMM) have executed a binding letter of intent to acquire
APRIL 22, 2015 — The Pasha Group says that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has cleared its acquisition of the Hawaii trade-lane business of Horizon Lines, Inc. (Horizon). This paves the
APRIL 20, 2015 — Naval architecture and marine engineering firm Gibbs & Cox, Inc., has appointed Matthew P. Hans as Vice President of its Platform Solutions Group. In this role, Mr. Hans
APRIL 14, 2015 — So much for “eco” ships. It seems that not too many shipowners can have been ordering them. A new study of the historical development of the efficiency of
APRIL 14, 2015 — Drydocks World has beaten its previous 35 vessel record by handling 37 projects simultaneously in its Dubai shipyard. The vessels involved included dredges, rigs, gas carriers, tankers and
APRIL 7, 2015 — HHIC-Phil, Hanjin Heavy Industries’ Subic, Phillipines, shipyard, is to build the three 20,600 TEU containerships recently announced by France’s CMA-CGM (see earlier story). The ships are the three
MARCH 30, 2015 — Viking Life-Saving Equipment has taken an important step towards gaining approval for its Viking LifeCraft, an innovative alternative life-saving appliance (LSA) for passenger ships. The concept was presented
MARCH 30, 2015 — Essex, U.K., based offshore wind farm crew transfer specialist Njord Offshore has taken delivery of Njord Odin, the first of four 26 m StratCat design crew vessels on
MARCH 30, 2015 — Kicking the size of giant containerships up yet another notch, Marseilles, France, headquartered CMA CGM, the worlds’s third largest container line, today said that it is finalizing an
MARCH 26, 2015 — The 42-meter displacement motoryacht Alive, recently delivered by Heesen Yachts in the Netherlands, is the first luxury yacht equipped with a Hull Vane, a fixed foil located below
