Special project on electric vehicle fires leads VIKING Life-Saving Equipment to sign distribution agreements for fire extinguishing innovations in marine fire safety As part of its ever-intensifying focus on marine fire safety, VIKING has reached agreements to distribute Bridgehill’s fire blankets and the Rosenbauer Battery Extinguisher System (BEST) to maritime customers worldwide. The agreements are […]
Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat business, has reached an agreement with long-standing customer Atlantic Offshore to implement Fleet LTE across the Norwegian offshore service provider’s multifunctional fleet. The commitment will ensure vessels maintain continuous access to high-speed, low-latency connectivity in the North Sea during their offshore supply, seismic support and oil recovery duties. As an all-in-one […]
Columbia Shipmanagement has agreed to install Oceanly Performance solution on board of its ships. “Oceanly is a perfect fit for the services that Columbia wants to provide to its customers. The software will allow our technical managers to have a very intimate control of all technical aspects of our managed vessels, while at the same […]
Global healthcare specialist VIKAND is partnering with SeaTec, the independent maritime technical service provider, to support ship operators in their pursuit to reduce fuel emissions and energy consumption to meet industry environmental standards and improve air quality onboard. With steadfast goals to support cruise operators and clients throughout the maritime industry, VIKAND and SeaTec are […]
Norvic Shipping announces the expansion of its tanker division as part its ambitious growth strategy. To kick-start its growth plans, the New York-headquartered company has purchased Pro Alliance, an aframax LR2 tanker from SK Energy in South Korea. The acquisition of the vessel, which has been renamed Norvic Monia, sees Norvic owning its first ship […]
The Britannia Group reports a strong 2023/24 renewal, with a significant year-on-year increase in owned tonnage to 142.0m gt (from 134.7m gt). Chartered tonnage reduced to 51.0m gt giving an overall total entered tonnage of 193m gt. Further significant improvement in the underwriting result from the previous year was shown, with a combined ratio of […]
Shipping companies need an integrated approach to solve their operational challenges with unified digital solutions that deliver value creation without disrupting existing business processes, according to OrbitMI’s newly appointed Regional Director Americas Beau Campfield (pictured). “That is why I am so excited to join OrbitMI as its suite of intuitive SaaS (software as a service) […]
ABB has introduced a new Operational Planner module for its ABB Ability™ OCTOPUS – Marine Advisory System to help offshore fleet managers plan and optimize the maintenance of offshore wind farm operations. Offshore support vessels typically operate close to their shore base with frequent trips to fixed assets, such as wind turbines at sea, which […]
DeepSea has announced that it is making a full vessel data set and DeepSea’s automatic model evaluation tool available for free to the shipping industry for the next 12 months. This is the first time that such tools have ever been made available to the public – and allows innovation, research and technical departments with […]
Finnlines has announced an agreement with NAPA, a global maritime software and data services expert, to install NAPA’s electronic reporting, fleet monitoring and stability management solutions on two newbuild ‘Superstar-class’ ro-pax vessels. The two highly sophisticated ro-pax vessels, which will use several energy-saving technologies, will operate between Finland and Sweden. NAPA’s next-generation digital solutions will […]
“We will need your leadership vision, not to mention every ounce of your ingenuity and sweat, if our industry is to meet both the challenges and opportunities we face today.” That was the message from Christopher J. Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President and CEO to the graduating class of 2023 at the Webb Institute. He explained […]
Since April 2023, JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven has been part of the regular rotation of the FE2 service in the sailing schedule of the partners in THE Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Yang Ming and Hyundai MM). Last week, the almost 20,000 TEU ‘Al Zubara’ made the first-ever call of a Hapag-Lloyd-owned vessel in the FE2 service at […]
