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FESCO continues its cooperation with Rusfond to help critically ill children of Primorye

FESCO Transportation Group together with Rusfond Charity Fund is extending the program of assistance to critically ill children of Primorye for the year 2022. For these purposes, the Group will allocate 5 million rubles. The joint program was launched in January 2020 and operates in accordance with the principle of co-financing. FESCO and Rusfond together cover the costs of treating critically ill children living in the Primorsky Territory: the Group undertakes to collect 50% of the r...

Atlas Copco announces deal to acquire LEWA GmbH and Geveke B.V. companies and their subsidiaries

Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire LEWA GmbH and its subsidiaries, and Geveke B.V. and its subsidiaries, for a combined enterprise value of MEUR 670 (BSEK 7.15). LEWA GmbH is a globally renowned manufacturer of diaphragm metering pumps, process pumps and complete metering systems. Geveke B.V. distributes compressors and engineers advanced and complex process pump installations. Acquisition of LEWA GmbH LEWA GmbH was founded in 1952 and is based in Germany. The company has around 1200 employees...

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. completes investment in Tokyo-based marine solutions company, Marindows Inc.

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has completed investment into Marindows Inc., a Tokyo-based firm, aiming to utilise the revolution in information technology to build an integrated digital platform for the marine industry. Amid the current energy revolution, this partnership will accelerate efforts to achieve a carbon neutral world in areas from electrification and autonomous operation to the marine industry, create new value by merging the p...

Performance Team announces a new cold storage facility in Houston designed to serve imports and exports

Performance Team – A Maersk Company continues to integrate end-to-end cold chains with the announcement of a new cold storage facility in Houston designed to serve imports and exports. “As we continue to expand our network in North America, providing customer-centered solutions this new facility will provide best-in-class cold chain services by integrating our services, technologies and optimising cold chain logistics efficiencies,” said Jason Walker, Executive Vice President...

James Fisher tackles supply chain challenges with seasonal charter agreement with Go Marine Group for multi-purpose service vessel

James Fisher, a global provider of innovative marine solutions and specialised engineering services, has signed a charter agreement with Go Marine Group for the exclusive use of the multi-purpose service vessel, Go Electra, adding much needed security for customers, amid cost and supply chain crunches in the industry. The agreement will see the boat used, throughout the remainder of 2022, by James Fisher’s marine group brands, James Fisher Renewables (JF Renewables) and James Fisher Subte...

Babcock International celebrates two award wins at the Maritime UK Awards

Babcock’s LGE (Liquid Gas Equipment) business and Cavendish Nuclear are celebrating two award wins at this year’s Maritime UK Awards. Kat Tanner won Electrical Design Apprentice for Cavendish Nuclear in the Apprentice of the Year category, while Babcock scooped the accolade for Innovation. The prestigious awards ceremony took place at the Glasgow Science Centre on Thursday 10 March. With the UK Government having launched its first long-term strategy for the sector, Maritime 2050, th...

Maritime UK’s Board of Trade announces the release of publication report on maritime trade

The fourth publication by Maritime UK’s Board of Trade sets out how the United Kingdom (UK) can deliver the trade benefits of the National Shipbuilding Strategy refresh. This paper puts forward the Board of Trade’s thoughts on: Global trends and the importance of the maritime industry to trade. UK strengths and opportunities within the maritime sector. How trade and investment solutions can address challenges in the global maritime sector. Board of Trade publication UK Secr...

Wärtsilä Corporation secures new deal to install scrubbers on two newbuild RoPax vessels

The technology group, Wärtsilä (Wärtsilä Corporation) has secured a new agreement for its exhaust gas cleaning systems to be installed on two newbuild 218m roll-on/roll-off passenger vessels (RoPax) at Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) in China. V-SOx hybrid scrubber systems The contract, which was signed in February 2022, will see Wärtsilä fit and commission two 25-megawatt V-SOx hybrid scrubber systems, which can run in both open and closed loop configurati...

Culines attends the 2022 Trans-Pacific maritime conference (TPM22)

The 2022 Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference (TPM22) was recently held in Long Beach, USA. CULINES was honored to attend as a Gold Partner with companies along the supply chain in the trans-Pacific region. CULINES exchanged with customers and partners on the latest industrial trends and introduced its shipping logistics solutions. This is the debut of CULINES at TPM and also the first time to participate in such an international shipping conference. The conference At the conference, the CO-CEO...

Cammell Laird's support for tide class vessels

Cammell Laird’s Defence Division has enjoyed a busy twelve months, as it continues to provide support to the four Tide Class tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). The 39,000-tonne newly built vessels came into service in 2017 and were built to replace the RFA’s single-hulled tankers. Bulk fuel Replenishment Together with RFA’s Wave Knight and Fort Victoria, the four tankers are maintaining the Royal Navy’s dedicated bulk fuel Replenishment at Sea (RAS) capabiliti...

Nor-Shipping signs WISTA pledge to focus on increasing female participation in the maritime sector

Nor-Shipping has seized on International Women’s Day to sign up to the new, 40 by 30 initiative from WISTA Norway. This focuses on increasing female participation in maritime, with a goal of boosting the number of women in leading industry management positions in Norway from today’s level of 15% to 40% by 2030. Nor-Shipping – WISTA partnership Nor-Shipping - Your Arena for Ocean Solutions, has partnered with WISTA for over a decade, highlighting campaigns and hosting the Wave...

High-performance Intellian terminals for Telesat Lightspeed

Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, and Intellian, a provider of feature-rich, future-proof satellite communications solutions, announced a contract award for Intellian to design and supply reference enterprise user terminals for the Telesat Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network. Telesat Lightspeed network Intellian’s innovative satellite terminal technology leverages the company’s non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO)...

Blue Water boosts customers’ business with pallet racks from SpaceInvader

During the spring of 2020, Blue Water and SpaceInvader entered a climate partnership, and the journey towards more sustainable road transport began. If possible, the aim was also to contribute to minimising the effect of other challenges such as shortage of capacity and drivers, as well as high freight rates. The two partners have now signed a three-year cooperative agreement. According to the two players, future solutions must be developed in solid climate partnerships where innovation and cou...

Golden Ocean Group Limited announces the sale of three of its oldest Panamax vessels

Golden Ocean Group Limited, the owner of large size dry bulk vessels, announces the sale of three of its oldest Panamax vessels, Golden Empress, Golden Enterprise, and Golden Endeavour, delivered in 2010 and 2011, as part of the Company’s ongoing strategy to ensure that it operates a modern, fuel-efficient fleet with a reduced emissions profile. The combined sales price of the three vessels is $52.0 million, and the Company expects to record a gain from the sales of approximately $9.6 mil...

Waves Group provide MWS services for the construction of the Hiep Thanh nearshore wind farm project

Waves Group are pleased to have provided Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) services for the construction of the Hiep Thanh nearshore wind farm project – their third offshore wind contract win in Vietnam. The project nearshore construction is now complete and will be commissioned in the first quarter of the year. Their scope of work included the installation of foundations, WTGs, array cables, and nearshore marine works. The project was managed by the Singapore office with the support of th...

Maritime UK calls for marine and shipping organisations to #BreaktheBias on the occasion of International Women’s Day

Maritime UK is calling upon the sector to #BreaktheBias and commit to gender equality in 2022 and beyond. This year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) theme – ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’ recognises the contribution of women and girls around the world, who are leading the charge on climate change adaptation, mitigation, and response, to build a more sustainable future for all. Breaking the gender bias Maritime UK plans to spotlight all the wo...

MetOcean Telematics at Security & Policing Event 2022

MetOcean Telematics is pleased to announce they will be exhibiting at Security & Policing in Farnborough, UK from March 15-17, 2022. The official UK Government global security event, Security & Policing returns as a live event for its 40th anniversary at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre. They are looking forward to meeting the partners and clients in the industry and showcasing the latest Security products and technologies. Visit the MetOcean Telematics tea...

Maersk transforms logistics through technology-enabled, digital supply chain solutions

A.P. Moller - Maersk’s strategy is to offer integrated solutions for smooth and optimised cargo flows that can span across all steps of the supply chain and create value for customers in the form of better supply chain outcomes, increased transparency, and control, and ultimately lower end-to-end costs. This vision is being delivered by combining the broad product and service offering of ‘Logistics & Services’ with the highly reliable and more differentiated ‘Ocean&r...

PIL awards contract to Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) to build four 14,000 TEU LNG dual-fuel propulsion container vessels

Pacific International Lines (PIL) is pleased to announce the award of a contract to Jiangnan Shipyard (Group), for the construction of four 14,000 TEU container vessels. The vessels will be equipped with dual-fuel engines and auxiliaries that can run on both Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and low sulphur fuel oil. The four vessels will be delivered progressively from the second half of 2024 through to the first half of 2025. When delivered, the vessels will become the largest container vessels...

Brunvoll secures contract to supply azimuth propulsion systems to four new dredgers

Brunvoll has secured an important contract, as a result of its strategic and extensive development of azimuth propulsion systems. The contract with a foreign navy includes propulsion systems for four vessels. The dredgers will serve both the naval and civil needs for dredging of ports and other shallow waters. The vessels are 86 metres long and will have a crew of 14 people. All vessels will be built at local shipyards in the customer's home country. Brunvoll azimuth propulsion units Brunvoll...

Blue Water Shipping releases statement on Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

Blue Water is deeply concerned about Russia's continued military actions in Ukraine. They continuously follow the situation and assess how the increasing amounts of sanctions against Russia impact their activities and ability to service their customers. The company is pausing all new bookings, contracts, and activities in Russia and Belarus – this includes any transit through Russia and Belarus. Blue Water fully respects the sanctions and will comply Blue Water fully respects the sancti...

Unifeeder launches new Track & Trace tool

Unifeeder is proud to launch a new Track & Trace tool, which allows you to always stay close to your cargo. You can follow your cargo inland and overseas from door to door. The tool is available on myUnifeeder, which is a digital platform for cargo management in Europe. With myUnifeeder, it is faster and more efficient to quote and book. myUnifeeder provides customers with instant quotes and a variety of options to select between different sailing schedules and prices. Supply chain visib...

Kiilto pays great attention to limiting CO2 emissions in own production and from transports

Kiilto, one of The Nordic countries’ renowned manufacturer of hygiene and cleaning products, pays great attention to limiting CO2 emissions in own production and from transports. With weekly transports from the factory in Assens, Denmark to the warehouse in Oslo, Norway, their solution called for optimisation of truck loads. Each truck was usually loaded with a maximum of 33 pallets, which took up the entire trailer floor. It was not possible to load pallets on top of each other, which le...

MSC signs off another successful TPM edition

As TPM22 came to a close, our representatives had the newfound opportunity to network and engage in person at what is commonly regarded as the premier conference for the trans-Pacific and global container shipping and logistics community.   Meeting with existing customers and partners, and exploring new business opportunities, our specialists conducted one-to-one meetings to review how MSC’s solutions might be best adapted to answer their most immediate business needs.  St...

Nor-Shipping To Resume Business

Organisers note that “a hunger to meet up again” is driving interest, bookings and excitement for what is being seen as the first major, post-pandemic, international maritime and ocean industry event week. The last Nor-Shipping took place in summer 2019, attracting over 50,000 participants to Oslo and Lillestrøm, with exhibitors drawn from over 60 nations. With the recent removal of all coronavirus restrictions in Norway, in addition to freer international travel, organis...

Hexagon, VERIPOS expands SPAN GNSS+INS portfolio for dynamic positioning

VERIPOS is proud to expand its proven inertial solution SPAN GNSS+INS technology from NovAtel, also part of Hexagon, to Dynamic Positioning (DP) applications and vessels. SPAN technology delivers a deeply coupled GNSS and Inertial Navigation System (INS) that provides robust, reliable, and continuous centimetre-level positioning for operators to maintain safety and maximise uptime. With a GNSS+INS solution, DP vessels can bridge outages in GNSS tracking through short periods of radio frequenc...

Excitement, and big names, gathering for Nor-Shipping Ocean Leadership Conference

The removal of all national coronavirus restrictions in Norway added to easier international travel, is set to deliver a long-awaited gathering point for top industry leaders at Nor-Shipping’s Ocean Leadership Conference on 4 April. The event, which kickstarts four days of networking, knowledge-sharing, and showcasing innovation at Nor-Shipping 2022, will bring together over 900 executives for the first major ‘post pandemic’ summit of C-level maritime heads. Organisers say tha...

Serco and Stromma Group awarded a new contract for Stockholm’s Djurgårdsfärjerna ferries

Serco, the international provider of services to Governments and the company’s partner, Strömma Turism & Sjöfart AB (Stromma Group) have been awarded a new contract to continue to operate the Djurgårdsfärjerna in Stockholm, for a further four years. The contract is managed by the company, Djurgårdens Färjetrafik AB, which is jointly owned by Serco and Strömma Turism & Sjöfart AB. Contract for Stockholm’s Djurgårdsfärjerna...

Maritime sector in the UK shuts their borders for Russian ships

The UK has shut its borders to Russian ships as part of the ‘unprecedented’ package of sanctions it is developing with international allies. The Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps issued a statement to all UK ports on Monday, February 28 saying the Department for Transport deemed it ‘inappropriate’ for Russian vessels to continue to enter UK ports. Denying ship access UK ports are asked not to provide access to any ship which they have reason to believe is:...

MetOcean Telematics at IWCE 2022: Satellite communications

MetOcean Telematics is pleased to announce they will be exhibiting at International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 23-24, 2022. IWCE is the annual event for critical communications technology professionals around the world to gather and evaluate, learn and network with industry pioneers. They are looking forward to connecting with clients and attendees at the show, and showcasing MetOcean’s latest satellite communications technology. Visit the team at...

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