Norway, 9 December 2021 – VARD, one of the world's major designers and shipbuilders of specialized vessels, is pleased to announce that it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of one Service Operation Vessels (SOV) for North Star Group in the UK. The vessel of VARD 4 12 design will be the fourth SOV to be delivered from VARD to North Star for operation on the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea.

This publication builds upon the analysis of the previous years. The study comprises three parts: two separate sections on the different conventional and container reefer trades, based on an extensive write up and one section analysing the structure of the market.

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a set of findings and recommendations stemming from the fire and explosion aboard the cutter suction dredger Waymon Boyd in Corpus Christi in August 2020, which killed five and injured five more. The board's final investigative report is still pending.

Marlow Navigation adopts the Ocean Learning Platform, providing a wider range of interactive maritime learning solutions, as well as new tools for competence management and crew assessment.

Last week, Rep. Jolene Unsoeld died at the age of 89. She served in Congress from 1989-1995, and she authored bipartisan legislation requiring masters of documented ships to report sexual offenses to the Coast Guard.

Nor-Shipping remains committed to running a full-scale exhibition programme in January, inviting international and domestic maritime and ocean decision makers to showcase innovation, share knowledge and build crucial business partnerships. The organising team, led by Director Sidsel Norvik, is tailoring a safe, exciting and cutting-edge environment to ensure the community can mix, do business and lay foundations for sustainable success, together.

On Thursday, Kongsberg announced the startup of the world's first "full-scale, full-size" hydrogen fuel cell drivetrain for ships. According to the firm, the shoreside test installation shows that the technology is nearing maturity for vessel operations.

Melbourne-headquartered Navia Pty Ltd has extended its Australian network with the purchase of Perth-based Keys Freight and Logistics.  Navia now has locations in four Australian cities and an expanding global footprint with offices in strategic locations around the world.

Bitcoin Capital announced today that it has again listed two world firsts on the SIX Swiss Exchange. With 1 FiCAS Active Bitcoin ETP and 1 FiCAS Active Ethereum ETP, the company has launched two products actively managed by the highly experienced crypto asset manager FICAS AG. With active management, the products aim to counter negative price fluctuations and therefore outperform the two largest cryptocurrencies by capitalization. With the listing, institutional, professional, and private investors in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the European Union (excluding Hungary) can easily invest in the new products via their bank or broker, just as they do with other listed financial investments such as equities or bonds.

In late November, shipping company MSC integrated Hamburg port into their feeder service operating between Great Britain and several Baltic Sea ports. Four containerships with capacities between 2,000 and 3,500 TEU will be deployed in the Baltic Loop 3 service that will call at Wilhelmshaven, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Portbury (Bristol), Liverpool, Greenock, Le Havre, Antwerp, Tallinn and Riga.

World leaders’ knee-jerk reactions to the Omicron variant are putting transport workers and the global supply chain at greater risk of collapse, warn international transport organisations and unions representing road, air and sea transport.

The 52,000 vacancies in the transport and storage industry, mainly HGV drivers, have put an immense strain on imports this Christmas season, but it is not the only problem that businesses are facing.

Locations and employees at Rhenus Bulgaria integrated into the Gebrüder Weiss organization / National subsidiary in Bulgaria rounds out service portfolio with home deliveries

It requires a raft of complex bureaucratic approvals, timely logistics, tight scheduling and close monitoring to ensure the smooth transit of between 50 and 70 ships daily along the narrow Egyptian waterway that is a vital artery for the flow of world trade.

Russian officials have signed agreements to develop a massive new port complex, which they report will be the largest investment project on the Baltic Coast within the Russian Federation. When completed, the transshipment terminal and port complex located at Primorsky at the eastern side of the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg will have a capacity equal to 20 percent of the annual total cargo volumes of the Russian seaports in the Baltic.