Officials say an Antarctic cruise ship with 160 passengers aboard has lost an engine in high seas, but is limping safely to its scheduled port. The Argentine Navy says the Clelia II is heading for the port of Ushuia at the extreme south of the country at 4 knots (about 5 mph). It says...
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Archive for December 8th, 2010
Antarctic Cruise Ship Limping To Port In Argentina
Wärtsilä’s Consultation Process in Finland Completed
2010 Wärtsilä has decided to implement a global design for all its support functions in order to support the business in the most efficient way.
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Unifeeder awarded Ports of Stockholm’s Environmental Buoy 2010
The Danish company Unifeeder A/S was awarded Ports of Stockholm’s Environmental Buoy 2010. The reason for this honour was:”Ports of Stockholm’s Environmental Buoy is awarded to Unifeeder A/S for the exemplary development of a means of calculating the carbon dioxide savings of sea transportation.”
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Swissco Orders New Offshore Support Vessel
Swissco Holdings Ltd (“Swissco” or together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Swissco Offshore Pte Ltd has recently placed orders for two offshore support vessels for a total value of S$20 million.
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Kongsberg Simulators for New Australian Maritime College
A state-of-the-art Dynamic Positioning (DP) Operator Training Facility, featuring an extensive simulator suite developed by Kongsberg Maritime was opened in Northbridge, Western Australia on 22nd November 2010. Owned and run by the Australian Maritime College (AMC), the new facility is ideally positioned to serve the growing Western Australia oil & gas business from its...
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Ship’s Officer Dies in Fall into Cargo Hold
Police and the Coast Guard are investigation the death of a ship’s chief officer who was fatally injured Sunday night when he fell into an empty cargo hold aboard the freighter docked in South Philadelphia. Officials said the 46-year-old Croatian seaman, identifief as Denis Seretinek, was unhooking a container from an overhead crane about...
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Cargotec Strenghtens Executive Board Presence in Asia
Cargotec informed in September that as part of its refined strategy, the company will prioritise actions and allocate resources to emerging markets and strengthening customer focus globally. At the beginning of 2011, Pekka Vauramo, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Deputy to CEO will relocate to Hong Kong to drive Cargotec’s development initiatives in Asia-Pacific...
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CargoSmart Delivers the First Sailing Schedules iPhone App
CargoSmart Limited, a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) global shipping and logistics solutions provider, today announced the first sailing schedules iPhone application for shippers, logistics service providers, and ocean carriers.
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