Press Releases

ABS Wins ‘Best Classification Society’ Award at ShipTek 2013 At the 6th Annual International Maritime Awards, ABS received Marine BizTV’s

COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard announced the delivery of a pair of bulk carriers, the 82k DWT DL Acacia for South Korea’s Daelim Shipping and the 57k

Wilhelmsen Ships Services (WSS) General Manager for Japan Yoshihiro Iizuka says that he expects more customers to sign up for its’ Ships Agency

LOCKPORT, La., Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. has delivered the PAUL CLARK, the sixth Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to the United States Coast Guard. The announcement

MARINETTE, WI.  May 22, 2013 – Marinette Marine Corporation a Fincantieri Company, today announced that, as the Prime Contractor and Program

Business is ever-cyclic and one man’s misery is another man’s opportunity. Whilst ship operators and owners have been feeling the pinch from

HOUSTON – Hercules Offshore (Nasdaq: HERO) on Monday announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of eleven inland barge rigs, which

A message from gCaptain sponsor, Castrol Marine Port availability of premium 80 BN cylinder oil from Castrol Marine is widened to account for growing demand.

(Press Release) Marine electronics specialist MARIS AS has completed an ECDIS (electronic chart data information systems) technical training programme to

(Press Release) Cargotec’s MacGregor has received EUR 22 million order to deliver a 900-tonne active heave-compensated (AHC) MacGregor subsea crane to

The revelation this week that the owner of an Algerian cargo ship whose crew was held by Somali pirates paid them $2.6 million in ransom is yet another

Anyone who’s ever operated a crane at sea, or worked as a roustabout or deck crew, can attend to the fact that operating cranes in a seaway is

As the major engineering partner to the Allseas Group, Bosch Rexroth has developed and engineered the drive and control system solution for the world’s

A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the TWIC card reader pilot program calls into question the program’s premise and effectiveness in

The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association Raises Awareness of U.S. Mariners in the Cruise Industry in Light of Media Coverage Washington, DC (Press

London, 30th April 2013 – KPI Bridge Oil, a leading global broker and trader in marine bunkers, marine lubricants and risk management products, has

Two new state-of-the-art Ramform Titan-class seismic vessels under construction at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries yard in Japan for Norway headquartered

Baden, Switzerland – ABB Turbocharging announced today that its innovation, high-pressure tuning (HPT), was added to MAN Diesel & Turbo’s

Tokyo-based classification society ClassNK announced that it has certified the Type Specific ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) training

(New York) At the 151st Annual Meeting of the Members of ABS, and the subsequent meeting of the ABS Council, industry leaders were elected to serve on a