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Historic day for the port of Livorno and Port of Leixões to celebrate Portugal Day
Seven cruise ships were in the port of Livorno at the same time., the port accommodated two nearly 330-meter-long giants, the Celebrity Beyond and Norwegian Escape, at the Italia pier. Another titan from the Scandinavian company, the Epic, was berthed at the Alto Fondale quay Berth 75 behind the Molo…
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Port of Durban : (Africa’s busiest) !
The port of Durban is said to be the largest shipping terminal in Africa. Its strategic location along international shipping routes has made the port more relevant becoming South Africa’s main cargo and container port. DURBAN is a Large-sized Port. The types of vessels regularly calling at DURBAN are Bulk…
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Havfram awarded Senegalese Mooring Pre-Lay Contract by MODEC
Havfram announced today that MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd. (MODEC) has awarded Havfram a contract for the pre-installation of the subsea mooring system for a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) in 2022. MODEC’s parent company, MODEC, Inc., will supply this facility to Woodside, for deployment in Senegal…
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Eni enters the world’s largest LNG project in Qatar
Eni has been selected by QatarEnergy as a new international partner in the North Field East (NFE) expansion project. The Minister of State for Energy Affairs, President and CEO of QatarEnergy, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, and Eni CEO, Claudio Descalzi, signed the partnership agreement for the creation of the new Joint…
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Inmarsat Launches Fleet Xpress for Shipyards offering high-speed communications from vessel launch
Market-leading maritime broadband service Fleet Xpress is now available to shipyards, offering reliable, high-speed communications from vessel launch Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has made its market-leading maritime broadband service, Fleet Xpress, available to shipyards. Installed during new building, Fleet Xpress for Shipyards eliminates time-consuming and…
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Maersk Training Norway and Xrig AS have signed a cooperation agreement
Xrig is a Norwegian company specializing in on-/offshore rig and associated equipment rental services, including testing and training. Xrig is a modular combined drilling and hydraulic workover rig. In conjunction with the rig, they have recently built a competence center, where Xrig, together with the state-of-the-art module, will be able…
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A.P. Moller – Maersk to acquire ResQ to strengthen Maersk Training’s offerings
A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) announces the intended acquisition of its subsidiary Maersk Training of the Norwegian company, ResQ, a leading supplier of services and expertise in safety training and emergency preparedness in Norway. ResQ has five survival centers located strategically in Norway to cater for training in the North…
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WMU Delegation Visits Ghana in Furtherance of WeCAPS Project
A World Maritime University (WMU) delegation visited key maritime, port, and disaster management agencies in Ghana from 31 May to 1 June in connection with the European Union-funded Western and Central Africa Port Security (WeCAPS) project. The visit provided the WMU team with valuable insight into the current status of…
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Hapag-Lloyd and partners invest in container terminal in Egypt
A new terminal will be built in the port of Damietta, about 200 kilometers north of the Egyptian capital Cairo. For this purpose, a Joint Venture was founded to develop and operate the new “Terminal 2”. The Joint Venture “Damietta Alliance Container Terminal S.A.E.” consists of three core shareholders: Hapag-Lloyd…
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Mawani: A new agreement to establish a fifth logistics zone in Jeddah Islamic Port with the private sector
In the presence of the Minister of Transport and Logistics and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Ports Authority, “Mawani” Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser signed today a new agreement to establish a fifth logistics zone in Jeddah Islamic Port, after implementing a number of successive agreements recently…
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