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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...

TGI Cargo, an expert in moving oversized, heavy, and valuable cargo within Australia and internationally has partnered with KeyOptions to deploy its SATiS asset tracking solution to track and monitor its high-value shipments.     Established in 2007, TGI Cargo is a privately owned Australian freight forwarder specialising in challenging logistics projects. The freight TGI Cargo moves for its clients is often valuable and, in some cases, irreplaceable. It is for this reason t...

Britain’s aluminum shipbuilder, The Wight Shipyard Co. has secured the new build of two passenger catamarans for operation on the ever-growing Thames commuting and sightseeing line for Uber Boat by Thames Clippers. Building on the shipyard’s proven technology and sustainability credentials and employing some of the highest-skilled personnel in modern shipbuilding based at the iconic Wight Shipyard in East Cowes, the new contract is a significant coup for both the business and the Is...

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...

Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence, security and aerospace company has successfully delivered conceptual engineering support to provide a design for a combined condensate and LPG gas floating storage and offloading feasibility study for Twinza Oil Limited. Utilising Babcock’s experience in ship design, construction management, mooring and motion analysis, asset support and naval architecture the team undertook the 8-week concept study for new field development in Papua N...

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...

DNV has supported Hapag-Lloyd in obtaining financing for six of its highly efficient containership newbuildings according to the Green Loan Principles of the Loan Market Association (LMA). DNV has verified that the transactions fulfil the requirements of the programme. Sustainable fleets The decarbonisation of the world economy is the grand challenge of the coming decades. Shipping is no exception and pressure is escalating from regulators, financiers, customers, and the general public for shi...

Prysmian Group, the pioneer in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract worth around €1.2 billion by NeuConnect Britain Limited and NeuConnect Deutschland GmbH for the turn-key design, manufacturing, installation, testing, and commissioning of a 725 kilometre submarine interconnector that will directly link the German and UK electricity grids for the first time. This 1400 MW submarine and land cable system will connect two of Europe’s largest energy...

TradeLens announced the Costa Rican Customs Authority will integrate with their blockchain underpinned platform to review containerised shipment events and transportation documents, including bills of lading. Important information recorded within specific data fields in transportation documents will be used in risk assessments trials with TradeLens making trade easier for compliant companies doing business in the country while assisting in the identification of fraudulent activities. Access to...

ClassNK has upgraded the data linkage system between its design support software “PrimeShip-HULL” and NAPA’s 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software “NAPA Designer”. As 3D CAD software’s capability improves, the shipbuilding industry has recently been accelerating a transformation of the design process using 3D technology. Application Programming Interface ClassNK has accordingly enhanced the data linkage system between its design support software, PrimeShip...

The Seafarers’ Charity has awarded £5,000 to provide a hardship fund, administered by the Fishermen's Mission, for North East fishers, who are experiencing hardship because of the mysterious impact on inshore crab and lobster stocks in North East England coastal waters. Since October 2021 dead crabs and lobsters have been washed up on the North East England shoreline, consequently, many local fishers in the area have had their livelihoods seriously impacted and are experiencing ongo...

Maersk appoints Aruna Hussain as Managing Director of Sealand – A Maersk Company, Europe & Med. effective 1 March 2022. Aruna started her career at Maersk in 2000 where she worked in Liner and Trade roles in Pakistan and the UK before moving to Damco in Pakistan. After several years with Maersk, Aruna left for Australia in 2010 and worked for a few years in the e-commerce and retail space as Supply Chain and Operations Director for Australia at the US-based e-tailer, Wayfair. In 2016...

The Nigerian Navy has appointed Commodore Aliyu Gaya as the new Maritime Guard Commander of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA. Commodore Aliyu Gaya takes over from Commodore Ezekiel Nyako Lamiri, who has been redeployed to the Nigerian Defence Academy. Until his appointment Commodore Gaya was the Director of ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre Zone E Cotonou Republic of Benin. He has held other military and command postings in various Naval Commands wi...

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...

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...

The technology group Wärtsilä will provide technical management for a broad scope of solutions installed on Viking Line’s new climate-smart vessel Viking Glory under a three-year contract. The agreement was signed in December 2021. Minimising climate impact and optimising emissions Viking Glory currently begins its first commercial sailing. It features many cutting-edge technologies intended to minimise climate impact and air pollution. The new agreement covers s...

After a rare dip in long-term contracted ocean freight rates in December and January, container shipping costs are rising once again, with a 3.9% increase in February. The development, revealed in the latest Xeneta Shipping Index (XSI®) Public Indices, means rates have risen across 15 of the last 17 months. They currently stand 87.9% up year on year. Furthermore, ongoing congestion, high demand, and a new level of geopolitical angst are unlikely to reverse that trend any time soon. “I...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO), International Maritime Organization (IMO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued a joint statement asking stakeholders to take action to support the world’s 1.9 million seafarers from being unduly impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions. The statement comes in the wake of the Omicron COVID-19 variant of concern (VOC), which has, once again, c...

In response to President Biden’s planned attack on ocean carriers during Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, the World Shipping Council released the following statement: “It is unfortunate that the President is demonizing ocean carriers, the industry that is the backbone of the U.S. and global economy and that has been working around the clock through the pandemic to move more cargo than at any time in history.” Container shipping industry “Allegations that the...

XTRAIM, which will be presented to the German public for the first time, is Thales Group’s (Thales) new weapon sight that offers day/night de-camouflage capabilities, which previously could only be achieved by using several separate pieces of equipment. XTRAIM is compatible with all shoulder-fired assault rifles and light machine guns, in order to provide users with an unparalleled precision night-firing capability. XTRAIM was designed in close collaboration with users, to guarantee that...

CULINES signed an order for 2*7,000TEU containership newbuildings with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (CSSC SWS). A signing ceremony was held at CSSC SWS. Mr. Qi WANG (Chairman of CSSC SWS), Mr. Gang CHEN (GM at CSSC SWS), Mr. Aijun WU (GM of China Shipbuilding Trading), Mr. Yu Yang (GM at Asia & Pacific Department of China Shipbuilding Trading), Mr. Lingyi MENG (GM at China Classification Society Shanghai), Mr. Zhiyong LYU (President at Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Instit...

Motor ships of FESCO Transportation Group, FESCO Magadan, and FESCO Moneron continue their operation within the framework of marine coastal service FESCO Magadan Line connecting Vladivostok and port Vostochny with Magadan. FESCO Magadan loaded with containers and general cargo is currently en route to port Magadan. The estimated date of arrival is February 28. In its turn, FESCO Moneron is moving in the opposite direction, heading from Magadan to port Vostochny. The estimated date of arrival is...

Despite the scheduled unveiling of the winner of the 2022 Next Generation Ship Award being postponed by the Omicron surge, the winner from the four shortlisted candidates revealed last year will be presented with the prize on 4 April this year. Details of the four shortlisted candidates have already been publicly revealed but the other candidates were all worthy competitors and deserving of greater mention. Every one of the entrants was chosen by at least one of the judges in their selections a...

SBM Offshore’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) approach illustrates how SBM pursues a vision of safe, sustainable & affordable energy for generations to come.  Sustainability The Company takes pride in its continuous improvement approach and applies knowledge gained from its performance in future target setting. This has also led to positive and improved ratings in sustainability benchmarks. Three world-class ESG-rating agencies- S&P Global, Sustainalytics, and...

FESCO Transportation Group (“FESCO”, the “Group”) informs that vessels - FESCO Magadan and FESCO Moneron were on the sanctions list of Treasury Department of the US solely, due to the specifics of financing and the status of lessor: both vessels are on the balance sheet of PSB Leasing LLC that was initially under US sanctions. Thus, sanctions of Treasury Department of the US do not apply to any FESCO company and inclusion in the sanctions list of two vessels leased from...

Motor ships of FESCO Transportation Group (“FESCO”, the “Group”) - FESCO Magadan and FESCO Moneron continue their operation within the framework of marine coastal service FESCO Magadan Line connecting Vladivostok and port Vostochny with Magadan. FESCO Magadan loaded with containers and general cargo is currently en route to port Magadan. Estimated date of arrival is February 28. In its turn, FESCO Moneron is moving in the opposite direction, heading from Magadan to port...

Blue Water is pleased to announce the acquisition of Guyana-owned and operated Falcon Logistics Inc. and its proceedings as of February 16, 2022. "The acquisition of Falcon Logistics is a very exciting event in the world of Blue Water. It is yet another substantial commitment in the Caribbean region, and we are pleased to welcome more than 40 new colleagues in Guyana to the Blue Water family," says Thomas Bek, COO, Energy, Port & Projects, Blue Water. Maintaining full compliance In recent...

Pacific International Lines (PIL) is pleased to announce the launch of two weekly direct services which is an enhancement to its China to East Africa service. This will allow its customers to enjoy stable and faster transit times to East Africa. The enhancement will see the current East Africa Service (EAS), which PIL operates independently, expanding into two service routes - with one serving Mombasa, called EAS, and the other serving Dar es Salaam, to be named as EA3. New EAS and EA3 ser...

ABB and Ballard are progressing with their partnership to decarbonise marine transport and have received an AiP from DNV for their high-power fuel cell concept, the development of which was launched in 2018. An AiP is a major milestone in developing new technology as an independent assessment of the concept, confirming that the design is feasible and no significant obstacles exist to prevent the concept from being realised. With the AiP in place, the jointly developed solution can be completed...

Dubai International Boat Show is the premier and most established boat show in the UAE, GCC, and Middle East. Whether the users wants to buy a boat, discover luxury yachts and superyachts, explore the latest diving and aquatic innovations, it’s the definitive event for luxury and lifestyle. QS Seamaster and Waveless are the two brands, among those distributed by SAIM, which will be exhibited at the Dubai Boat Show 2022. Digital connection systems QS Seamaster bow and stern thrusters rep...