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The Cardiff-based company Graig Group has placed an order for three fuel-efficient MARLIN 2000 Blue container feeders at China’s Jinhai Heavy Industry with an option for three more.

The Flying Angel, the first purpose built seafarers support vessel in the world, is gaining more prominence as donations keep coming in from various companies that recognize its importance.

Navig8 has moved to increase the scope of Pool services offered, entering into an agreement involving 4 x LR1 Newbuildings from Sungdong Shipyard to join the existing LR1, Navig8 Honor (built 2011).

There is no shortfall in governance so far as the international regulation of shipping is concerned, which responsibly utilises the excellent

MCA reports, Saturday (July 14 201), that the crew on board a container vessel were forced to abandon their ship after an explosion and subsequent fire in a cargo hold mid Atlantic.

Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with Remøy Shipping on the delivery of a LNG powered platform supply vessel.

Atwood Oceanics Inc., has been awarded a twelve-month contract extension with Coastal Energy Company for the jackup rig Vicksburg for operations in Thailand.

Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) and Parsons International Limited have signed a consultancy contract for the first phase development of Marfa Port, Abu Dhabi.

Nippon Yusen Kaisha and two NYK Group companies, the Monohakobi Technology Institute (MTI) and NYK-Hinode Line Ltd.,

Malaysia’s Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) is investing MYR 1.4 billion (US$442 million) over the next three years in a modernization plan designed to meet the docking requirements of mega-container vessels.

Sempra US Gas & Power and BP Wind Energy will jointly develop the 21MW Auwahi wind farm in southeastern Maui, Hawaii.

The Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM), located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, has launched a marketing campaign to promote the strategic advantages of developing a container shipping port terminal in Sydney harbor.

Veripos has been awarded a two-year extension on its GNSS positioning contract with E R Offshore GmbH, the subsidiary of the Hamburg-based shipping organisation

ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda) has released the world’s first software package for use with the new IACS

Trelleborg Marine Systems, part of Trelleborg Engineered Systems, has been awarded the contract to supply the largest marine fender solution project in history for the state-of-the-art New Port Project (NPP) in Qatar.

The engineering company NavConsult AWSS GmbH & Co. KG from Brunsbüttel/Germany, completed a comprehensive transport project for offshore wind turbines.

On Wednesday 4 July 2012 Vroon took delivery of MV Peruvian Express, a 79,000-dwt Kamsarmax bulk carrier, built at Cosco Dalian Shipyard, China.

The brand new Amels 212 has become the first superyacht in the world to be awarded a ̀̀̀̀̀̀̀̀Green Passport’ from Lloyds Register.

Croatian-based shipbuilder BRODOSPLIT on July 10 delivered the bulk carrier MV Solin. On behalf of the owner the delivery documentation

Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has put in place a completely new IT-based certification and ship status system