It may have taken almost three years, the efforts of almost the entire shipping industry, but member states of IMO finally agreed last month to revise the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention.
Panama’s economy is booming ahead of the scheduled mid-2016 opening of the expanded Canal, the country’s new Maritime Affairs minister Jorge Barakat, administrator of the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP), told delegates at the Seatrade Middle East...
Seatrade Middle East Maritime 2014 closed yesterday in Dubai and we take look back at who said what over the last week at the region’s leading maritime event where ambitious future plans were outlined.
Turkish OSV builder Tor Marine has delivered around half of the vessels ordered by a Saudi operator working for Aramco, a top official told Seatrade Global.
Qatari OSV operator Halul Offshore Services Company’s delivery pipeline of around 12 new vessels is due to be completed within the next year-and-a-half, and will stand the company in good stead as it seeks to move beyond the Middle East region to...
The membership of the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), including Lloyd’s Register and Maersk Line, have signed shared commitments to set clear sustainability targets for their businesses by end 2014.
The OSV sector could benefit from the formation of an association to represent its interests, according to participants at Seatrade Middle East Maritime.
United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is open to cooperating with other stakeholders in the LNG supply chain, but is not in the process of building a Middle East refuelling stop, Jørn Hinge, president and ceo, told Seatrade Global.
