General News

The International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meets for its 64th session from 1 to 5 October 2012, at IMO Headquarters in London. The meeting’s agenda has now been announced.

27 September is the International Maritime Organization’s World Maritime Day. This year’s theme, ‘IMO: One hundred years after the “Titanic”’, was chosen to reflect on passenger ship safety today, and into the…

Lloyd’s Register has set up a Group Technology Centre (GTC) in Singapore to provide solution to the maritime industry and has reached an agreement with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research…

Danish marine fuel and lubricant supplier, OW Bunker, recently launched a new global quality control standard to ensure the quality of its products supplied by its physical sector.

Starting in October four Scandlines ferries are being fitted with hybrid drives as the first of two separate projects designed to provide possible alternatives to the planned Fehmarn Belt fixed link, writes…

Florida based Palladium Technologies has united with Rhode Island based underwater technology company, FarSounder, for the integration of systems for Palladium’s new integrated glass bridge system, SiMon Gold.

Seatankers Group has ordered a dozen PX105 platform support vessel design packages from Ulstein through Sinopacific’s Zhejiang yard in Ningbo, China where the vessels will be built.

Under navigational company, Admiralty, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) will host the next chain of Digital Integration Workshops in London this month, to help shipping managers plan for the integration of…

Wärtsilä Hamworthy has won a contract with Korea’s Hyundai Mipo dockyard to supply cargo handling equipment and engineering to four carriers for Antwerp based Exmar Shipping SA.

According to the latest ‘Shipping Confidence Survey’, carried out by international shipping advisor, Moore Stephens, confidence levels in the shipping industry have fallen to their lowest level in four years.