Following an intensive, six-month evaluation, Crystal Cruises today determined that while the SS United States is structurally sound, the technical and commercial challenges associated with returning the historic liner to service as a modern cruise ship have unfortunately proven insurmountable.
As the leader of customer-focused terminal operations in North America, GCT USA today welcomed the Hyundai Saturn to GCT Bayonne, the Saturn is the first of five Hyundai ships in the G6’s NYX service calling the port of New York and New Jersey through the expanded Panama Canal.
DNV GL has welcomed the world’s largest semi-submersible drilling rig, Ocean Greatwhite which is 123 metres long and 78 metres wide and was delivered at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea.
Today, following the Expanded Panama Canal’s first month of operations, the Panama Canal Administrator presented representatives of shipping lines and shipping agents with an update on the operations of the Expanded Canal, ensuring customers about the safe operation of the new locks.
AMELS and DAMEN are pleased to announce the sale of the first DAMEN SeaXplorer expedition yacht.
The first of a new class of “Neo-Panamax” shipping vessels called the Port of Philadelphia to begin a new phase of transport along the Delaware River in which the MSC Sofia Celeste, an 8,800 TEU vessel operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company, was docked at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia for the first time, making it the largest ship to ever call the Port of Philadelphia.
IMO’s continuing efforts to promote environmentally sound shipping received a boost today with the launch of Glomeep.imo.org which provides important information and updates on the GloMEEP project – a GEF-UNDP-IMO initiative that supports the uptake and implementation of energy efficiency measures for shipping, thereby reducing the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Holding OOS International Group B.V. confirms it has signed a fixed contract for the engineering and construction of two new build SSCV with China Merchant Industry Holdings.
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded an EPCI contract with FSG, a subsidiary of Siem Group which is worth more than NOK 120 Million, cover engineering and maritime technology deliveries to a RoPax ferry for ICG.