Posted to SCI takes delivery of another bulk carrier
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Joseph Fonseca)
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May 22, 2013
The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (SCI) acquisition spree of new buildings continues. Just two days ago on 20 May 2013, it accepted delivery of a Kamsarmax bulk carrier, M. V. “Vishva Chetna”. This is the second vessel of the four Kamsarmax…
Posted to Maritime Musings
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Dennis Bryant)
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April 23, 2013
The lowly barnacle has intrigued and been detested by mariners from time immemorial. It is a small arthropod with a complex life cycle. Once the fertilized egg is released into the water by the female, it hatches into a nauplius – a one-eyed larva consisting of a head and a tail fan for locomotion.
Posted to Far East Maritime
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Greg Knowler)
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October 25, 2012
China became known as the world’s factory by offering manufacturing costs that could not be matched by the developed nations. Its wages paid to uneducated rural migrant labour were a fraction of the mostly unionized pay required in the West, and land for factories was plentiful and cheap.
Posted to Indian dredging companies face a bad patch
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Joseph Fonseca)
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October 3, 2012
Dredging business is said to have passed through a bad patch in the past few months with many small players losing heavily in some of the contracts undertaken by them. Among these were mostly new comers into the field who in a hurry to make…
Posted to Marine Engineers’ Convention on overcoming economic meltdown
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Joseph Fonseca)
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September 24, 2012
It is incredible that the two-day 26th National Convention of Marine Engineers finally took place in Mumbai, (Navi Mumbai to be exact) over the past weekend on 22 and 23 September 2012. It is in fact the first time in several years that Mumbai was selected as the venue of this convention.
Posted to SMIT on a winning streak in India
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Joseph Fonseca)
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September 20, 2012
Forging ahead on a winning streak, SMIT Salvage, the Netherland-based company, has achieved 17 salvage operations on the Indian coast in just six years and in time to come is all set to take on a higher growth trajectory. Plans are underway to step up their expansion plan says Reinder Th Peek…
Posted to Maritime Musings
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Dennis Bryant)
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April 2, 2013
On 2 April 1513 (500 years ago, for those who have lost count), a fleet of three Spanish ships commanded by Juan Ponce de León sighted land west of the Bahamas. He believed it to be another island and named it La Florida (the Flowery Isles) in recognition of its verdant landscape.
Posted to Far East Maritime
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Greg Knowler)
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March 13, 2013
With 16 of 24 Kwai Tsing container terminal berths, the world’s biggest port operator has just Modern Terminals and one berth at CT3 to go before it can convert the entire Kwai Tsing container port into prime waterfront real estate when the sun inevitably sets on the Hong Kong box shipping business.
Posted to Maritime Musings
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Dennis Bryant)
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February 1, 2013
Following the grounding of the conical drill unit (CDU) Kulluk on Sitkalidak Island, a number of environmental advocates have called for a ban on oil and gas drilling in Arctic waters. The argument is that such offshore drilling in a harsh environment…
Posted to Market expectations from DNV and GL merger
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Joseph Fonseca)
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January 23, 2013
The recent announcement of the merger of the two classification societies Germanischer Lloyd (GL) and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) seems to have caused an unsettling effect on shipping companies, classification societiesand others related organizations.
Posted to for those in motion on the ocean
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Peter Ebbutt)
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December 19, 2012
Stabilicube…tracks changes in stability as waves sweep thru, winds gust, liquids transfer via open cross connects, tanks slosh, cargo shifts, water is still trapped on deck, towline angles and tensions change. Stabilicube takes the guess work out of operations at sea.
Posted to Far East Maritime
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Greg Knowler)
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November 28, 2012
Way back in the mists of 2004, the government of Hong Kong released its Port Masterplan: 2020. The plan, compiled by consultants GHK, took a comprehensive look at the port and its needs over the next couple of decades. Naturally the government watered down the first draft…
Posted to Essar Shipping inducts two mini cape vessels
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Joseph Fonseca)
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November 19, 2012
Essar Shipping Limited (ESL) today reported having taken delivery of two mini cape bulk carriers, m v Kishore and m v Ashok. These new builds are the last two mini cape vessels out of six that have been on order with STX (Dalian) Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., China.
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
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September 18, 2012
The brig USS Somers, launched in April 1842, was the second vessel of the United States Navy to bear that name. Like its predecessor, it was named in honor of Lieutenant Richard Somers (1778-1804) who died with his crew when the bomb ketch Intrepid…
Posted to SHIPPINGInsight
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James Rhodes)
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July 23, 2012
You may have seen the announcement, reported on MarineLink.com last week, that Maersk LIne has saved almost USD$90 million on fuel costs in three years by measuring the performance of individual ships. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were…
Posted to Maritime Training Issues with Murray Goldberg
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Murray Goldberg)
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July 16, 2012
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Posted to Maritime Musings
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Dennis Bryant)
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June 29, 2012
Amelia Island is the northern-most portion of Florida on the Atlantic coast. Georgia lies just across the St. Marys River. This political separation today is of little significance, but it was highly important in earlier times. Some years after…
Posted to Maritime Training Issues with Murray Goldberg
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Murray Goldberg)
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June 25, 2012
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Posted to Maritime Training Issues with Murray Goldberg
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Murray Goldberg)
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May 7, 2012
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