Month: March 2004

Former General Secretary of the IMO, Bill O'Neil, is to be the new President of UK-based maritime training company Videotel Marine International. "Bill O'Neil has done a great deal to promote the…

Nobody wants their ship to be used as part of a conduit for the activities of terrorists. With this in mind, ship managers and ship owners are beginning to explore what they…

The paperless office has always been a bit of a dream. Computer technologies in the early days were never that reliable and office managers found that instead of reducing the paper mountain,…

Royal Caribbean?s fifth in series Post-Panamax precedes larger Ultra Voyager class cruise shipMariner of the Seas, the fifth cruise ship in the Voyager-class for Royal Caribbean Cruises, was delivered in October of…

The Integration of transportation is considered the solution to the expected increase in freight traffic.In its ongoing attempt to manage predicted increases in freight transport, the European Commission is taking steps to…

A leading supplier of halogen-free ship interiors has called for the use of PVC to be outlawed. Danish-based Inexa Panel believes that: "it is difficult to understand why there are still some…

Although the US-based General Electric Transportation Systems (GE) has for many years supplied diesel engines for the US inland waterway market, it has only recently received its first order to power an…

An unusual newbuilding entered the European water transport scene with the recent entry into service of the Waterways 1, an estuary Ro-Ro vessel designed for the transportation of new cars. Not only…

"A ship is worse than a gaol [jail]. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in…