The European Commission has granted €6.2 Million for a new research project called SHIPLYS (Ship Lifecycle Software Solutions). The project gathers a team of 12 leading maritime companies and research facilities from several European countries in order to develop simulation and modelling tools that will minimise the time and costs involved in ship design and […]
Global maritime welfare charity The Mission to Seafarers has today (Friday) offered to help Hanjin Shipping in providing welfare support to its 2,500 seafarers onboard 97 container ships. The South Korean container shipping giant, the world’s seventh-largest line, filed for receivership last month, putting thousands of jobs at risk. Some port authorities are refusing entry, […]
Closing this year’s IUMI 2016 marine insurance conference in Genova today (Friday), IUMI President, Dieter Berg expressed concern over the increasing number of large marine losses and their potential to put severe financial strain on insurance companies. He cited the recent losses connected with the Chilean earthquake in 2010, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in […]
In response to demand on the routes from Rotterdam (Europoort and Hoek van Holland) to Killingholme, Stena Line is to add additional capacity by introducing a second ship from Europoort to Killingholme. The RoRo ship Caroline Russ, has been brought in to operate three times weekly from Europoort in the Netherlands and Killingholme in the […]
There has been a lot of publicity recently about the need for the shipping industry to wake up to the very real threat of malicious cyber-attacks. Shipmanagement company Thome said it takes cyber security very seriously and continuously monitors its protocols and procedures to keep up to date with the ever changing cyber threats and […]
Longitude Engineering – a specialist marine engineering subsidiary of the LOC Group – has reported continued growth and the commissioning of new, larger offices in Exeter, UK. The UK is at the centre of Longitude’s network of offices (also in Singapore, Mexico and the USA) and has enjoyed significant growth in recent years, with the […]
