The shortage of skilled labour continues to affect many business sectors, but it is particularly dramatic in the maritime industry, specifically at sea. Germany’s Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) recently stated that in the coming years, the…

Helsinki-based NAPA has launched a cloud-based digital tool, NAPA Stability for Ferries, to support safe loading operations and cargo changes aboard ferries on tight schedules and turnround times. The first installations have been confirmed on seven…

Tokyo-based Tokyu Land Corporation, Rotterdam-headquartered SolarDuck, and US-based Kyocera Communication Systems Corporation, have completed the installation of Japan’s first offshore floating solar photovoltaic (OFPV) power plant in Tokyo Bay.

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Leading Arabian Gulf ship repairer ASRY (Arab Shipbuilding Repair Yard), based in Hidd, Bahrain, has signed a six-ship VLCC block booking deal with long-term repeat customer Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC).

Unfortunately, ASRY has been unable to inform…

With overseas deployment for the US Navy’s surface fleet growing and growing in an increasingly unstable world in the Middle East and Far East, it is increasingly seeking permission to repair vessels at overseas shipyards, as opposed to bringing…

Port Louis, Mauritius-based ship repairer Taylor Smith Shipyard (TSS) and South Africa-based marine diesel repair and service specialist Nouum Engineering have signed a cooperation agreement expanding both companies’ commercial and operational…

The US east coast repairer Detyens Shipyards, in Charleston, South Carolina, completed the refit of the US Navy’s Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment tanker USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO-105) in early May. This vessel is operated by the Military…