[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]GE Marine Solutions has announced the launch of SeaLyte solutions which comprises two standalone products: the SeaLyte Vessel Control System (VCS) and SeaLyte DP. Both can be fully integrated into one package or used independently [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The International Group of P&I Clubs and the shipping line members of the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) released a new set of guidelines for the carriage of Calcium Hypochlorite in containers on May 2016. [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The maritime software development company SDSD are launching V-Chartering – a new cloud chartering platform for wet and dry brokers to manage the entire chartering process – from user friendly intelligent vessel/cargo matching through to [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]ClassNK has just released the latest version of its design support software PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) Ver.4.0.0., developed in response to the IACS Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers (CSR BC & OT). The [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A Singapore buyer has won an auction for a ship belonging to bankrupt Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry with an offer of 96 million yuan ($14 million), setting an online auction record for ships in China. [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In January 2017, the Panama Canal set a new monthly tonnage record of 36.1 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS), with the transit of 1,260 ships through both the Expanded and original locks. The previous record [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Long-time UE engine licensee Kobe Diesel is to acquire the marine diesel business of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and its wholly owned subsidiary Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Engine Co., Ltd. Today, the [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With a significant forecast increase in LNG supply and a growing number of new demand centers, the demand outlook for LNG carriers with long-term charters remains positive, said ship owner GasLog. The company noted that [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Randonneuring is long-distance, unsupported, non-competitive cycling within prescribed time limits. The events—called brevets—are 200km (13.5-hour time cut-off), 300km (20 hours), 400km (27 hours), 600km (40 hours), and 1000km (75 hours). Grand Randonnées are 1200km, and [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Capt. Nikolaos Frangos, 90, Ship-owner, Philanthropist, Family Man, Passes Away. Captain Nikolos Frangos was born in Kardamyla, on the island of Chios, in 1926.In 1947, he salvaged a family ship that was sunk by Germans, [...]
