[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dubai is being transformed into a “smart” city. The ‘’Smart Marine Services Platform’’ launched by Dubai Maritime City Authority is a major step towards the consolidation of a culture of maritime innovation and creativity, in [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Brent Bruun, executive vice president of mobile broadband for KVH Industries, Inc. and Mike Mitsock, the company’s vice president of marketing, told an audience of invited guests at the Posidonia maritime conference in Athens, Greece, [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Classification society DNV GL announced at the Posidonia trade fair that it had issued the first “Clean Lay-up” declaration under its newly released classification guideline. The guideline enables shipowners and managers to demonstrate that their [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Xeneta, the Oslo-based benchmarking and market intelligence platform for containerised ocean freight, has quizzed its worldwide database of contributors to uncover the main reasons businesses end agreements with container ship carriers. Price, risk management and [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The truth is that Singapore outgrew Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) a long time ago, said NOL chief executive Ng Yat Chung. “It might have been useful in the early days,” he noted, pointing to the [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime and logistics service provider, is driving a global roll-out of its new cargo and agency platform, YourISS2. Designed to increase efficiencies, standardise processes and documents and enhance [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Marlink, the world’s leading maritime communication and maritime VSAT operator, has signed a strategic alliance with Inmarsat, which will see Inmarsat’s new Fleet Xpress service integrated into Marlink’s existing service portfolio. Through the agreement, Marlink [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]UK P&I Club has reported a total of $155 million in personal injury claims. Petar Modev, Senior Loss Prevention Executive at UK P&I Club, suggests how to reduce incidents of slips, trips and falls aboard [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Paris MoU announced that it has agreed on a new Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) for next year which will focus on MARPOL Annex VI to highlight the importance of the IMO requirements for stricter [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]DNV GL has mentioned the important aspects of fire safety in the engine room, regarding both newbuildings and ships in service. Many of them, such as insulation, screening and the routing of pipes, cannot be [...]
