Switzerland: ABB Gets Long-Term Service Contract from Carnival Corporation
Wednesday, 11.Apr.2012, 14:57
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a long-term service contract from Carnival Corporation to maintain and upgrade ABB’s Azipod equipment over the next 15 years for 20 ships in their fleet, cutting costs by as much as $1 million a year per ship.
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Italy: RINA to Verify Ships and Companies for Clean Shipping Index
Wednesday, 11.Apr.2012, 14:55
International classification society RINA has been recognised by Sweden’s Clean Shipping Project as able to verify ships and shipping companies in accordance with verification guidelines developed for ranking in the Clean Shipping Index.
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Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) has been awarded contracts for Normand Aurora, Normand Draupne and Normand Corona.
Wednesday, 11.Apr.2012, 14:54
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) has been awarded contracts for Normand Aurora, Normand Draupne and Normand Corona.
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Japan: MOL Completes Drill Based on Fire in LNG Carrier’s Engine Room
Wednesday, 11.Apr.2012, 14:51
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced the completion of a table top drill based on the scenario of a fire in the engine room of the MOL-operated LNG carrier Grand Mereya in Tsugaru Strait, resulting in the vessel running aground. The 1st Regional Coast Guard Headquarters also cooperated in the drill, one of a regular series of events to help MOL prepare for unexpected incidents at sea.
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Shipowners Must Do More to Prevent Engineroom Fires (Norway)
Wednesday, 11.Apr.2012, 14:49
Shipowners are increasingly lax when it comes to upholding 2003 amendments to the Safety of Life at Sea Convention that are designed to prevent engineroom fires, according to a loss prevention circular from Gard.
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APL on course to reduce carbon emissions by 30pc within three years
Tuesday, 10.Apr.2012, 22:50
SINGAPORE-based container carrier APL said it's on course to reduce a key carbon exhaust measure from its global shipping operations by 30 per cent within three years.
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Dutch dredgers open Mombasa to 4,500-TEUers, raising 2,000-TEU limit
Tuesday, 10.Apr.2012, 22:48
RECENT dredging of the Mombasa channel and the turning basin has enabled the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to dock 4,500-TEU ships when only 2,000-TEUers could get in before.
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Fremantle dockside reefer box fire breaks out, setting 11 boxes ablaze
Tuesday, 10.Apr.2012, 22:46
FIREMEN have yet to determine the cause of a reefer container fire at the Port of Fremantle, south of Perth, Western Australia, which destroyed 11 boxes, most of them empties.
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Obscure Daina Shipping charged in New Zealand containership disaster
Tuesday, 10.Apr.2012, 22:45
THE obscure defendants, technically owners of a stricken containership Rena, which was wrecked on a reef off a popular New Zealand holiday spot in October, have been charged with causing the country's worst environmental disaster in decades.
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Drewry warns rates under increasing threat as capacity soars unchecked
Tuesday, 10.Apr.2012, 22:43
OVERHANGING overcapacity in container shipping and weak European demand may well scupper recent rate increases and the sudden rise in the spot market, warns Drewry's latest quarterly Container Forecaster.
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