2014Edward Articles

- Three More Workboats for Jordan page: 57
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Maritime Reporter
on August 2015
Sanmar Shipyards delivered three more vessels to the Aqaba Port Marine Services Company (APMSCO) for the Sheikh Subah Al Ahmad Al Subah LNG terminal at Aqaba, Jordan. The overall contract comprises four 80-tonne bollard pull specially modified Terminal RAstar 2800 ASD tugs, two conventional twin sc
- General Ship Repair: A Family Affair page: 56
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Maritime Reporter
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The General Ship Repair Corporation, a fixture on the Baltimore water front for nearly a century, continues to build a strong business while preparing for fourth generation ownership. General Ship Repair Corporation is as ubiquitous of a presence on the Baltimore waterfront as Under Armour, D
- MN 100: Gencorp Insurance Group page: 18
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Marine News
on August 2015
The Company: Gencorp Insurance Group provides the Insurance and Surety needs of Marine Contractors, Vessel Operators and Shipyards throughout the country and Caribbean. Gencorp’s Marine Group facilitates the coverage placement and claims settlement for all insureds, utilizing a team that has a Mari
- MN 100: ContainerTug B.V. page: 18
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Marine News
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The Company: ContainerTug B.V. is a specialized Dutch naval design engineering and construction company with a strong focus on developing workboats and the evaluation and calculation of concepts and structures. The firm’s pragmatic approach revolves around ‘Finding the optimal solution for the cust
- MN 100: Bordelon Marine page: 18
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Marine News
on August 2015
The Company: Founded in 1979, Bordelon Marine is a leading provider of Marine Transportation services operating in the Gulf of Mexico and around the world. The company owns and operates a fleet of modern offshore supply vessels ranging in size and type from DP1 Mini-supply Vessels to MPSV 260 DP2 v
- MN 100: Bouchard Transportation page: 16
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Marine News
on August 2015
The Company: Bouchard Transportation’s history dates back to its incorporation in 1918 by founder, Capt. Fred Bouchard, the youngest tugboat captain in the Port of New York. Bouchard is a family owned business and the nation’s largest independently-owned ocean-going petroleum barge company. The com
- MTR100: Sidus Solutions page: 31
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Marine Technology
on August 2015
7352 Trade St. San Diego, CA 92121 T: (619) 275-5533 l.hagstrom@sidus-solutions.com W: www.sidus-solutions.com CEO/President: Leonard Pool No. of Employees: 15 SIDUS Solutions designs and manufactures cutting-edge subsea video cameras, lighting and robotic position
- MTR100: Ocean Sonic page: 31
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Marine Technology
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Hill House, 11 Lornevale Road Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada B0M 1L0 T: +1-902-655-3000 W: info@oceansonics.com W: www.OceanSonics.com CEO/President: Mark Wood No. of Employees: 12 Ocean Sonics designs and manufactures the icListen Smart Hydrophone, an innov
- MTR100: MMT page: 30
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Marine Technology
on August 2015
Sven Källfelts gata 11 Västra Frölunda, Sweden SE42671 T: +46 (0)31 762 03 16 E: ellen.svestad@mmt.se W: https://www.mmt.se CEO/President: Stefan Eliasson No. of Employees: 250 Established in 1976 MMT is a survey company offering time and cost efficient solutions to customers requiring
- Drydocks World World’s Largest Turret page: 55
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Maritime Reporter
on August 2015
Drydocks World marked a milestone in completing the world’s largest turret mooring system. At almost 100 meters high, weighing over 11,000 tons and with a diameter of 26 meters, the turret is designed to ensure the Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility can operate safely in the most
- N-KOM: New VLCC Size Floating Dock page: 54
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Maritime Reporter
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Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM), the joint-venture shipyard of Keppel Offshore & Marine and Nakilat, continues to see strong interest for its ship repair services in 2015, having already delivered more than 450 projects for shipping and oil and gas companies over the past four years. Among
- Austal Delivers for USN page: 53
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Maritime Reporter
on August 2015
Austal’s U.S. operation consists of more than 4,000 employees supporting the design, construction and sustainment of two U.S. Navy programs, the 127-meter, trimaran Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and the 103-meter, catamaran high-speed troop and equipment transport known as the Join
- ASRY 2015 Strategy Combats Challenging Market page: 52
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Maritime Reporter
on August 2015
Up to May 2015, ASRY (Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard), was seeing encouraging results from it’s 2015 strategy to combat the widespread challenges facing the maritime repair market, particularly shipowners reduced repair budgets. In terms of revenue, the ship repair side of ASRY’s business has been
- Shipyards Rising Competitive Stirrings page: 50
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Maritime Reporter
on August 2015
A mini order boom fueled by gas, “green-tech”, tankers and new rules is underway in shipbuilding. It won’t fill all yards, but changes like the July 2015 cap on sulfur emissions garner retrofit and rush orders. Even China’s Directive 55 obliges its mixed bag of yards to comply. Threatening to plug t
- MTR100: CARIS page: 29
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Marine Technology
on August 2015
115 Waggoners Lane, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 2L4 T: 1-506-458-8533 / E: andy.hoggarth@caris.com / W: www.caris.com CEO/President: Dr. Salem Masry No. of Employees: 170 Established in 1979, CARIS is a developer of geospatial software designed to cater the marine GIS community an
- MTR100: Ohmsett page: 28
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Marine Technology
on August 2015
PO Box 473, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716 T: 732-866-7183 E: bschmidt@ohmsettnj.com W: www.ohmsett.com Program Mgr.: Bill Schmidt No. of Employees: 18 Ohmsett provides independent and objective performance testing of full-scale oil spill response equipment and marine renewabl
- MTR100: Novacavi page: 27
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Marine Technology
on August 2015
Lombardia, Italy 20068 T: +39 025538321 E: ff@novacavi.it W: http://www.novacavi.it CEO/President: Giuliana Censi No. of Employees: 28 Novacavi is an Italy-based privately owned company established in 1975. We design and manufacture in-house custom cables and we have
- MTR100: QPS-US (Quality Positioning Services) page: 27
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Marine Technology
on August 2015
104 Congress St, Ste 304 Portsmouth, NH 03801 T: +1-603-431-1773 E: sales@qps-us.com W: http://www.qps-us.com CEO: Tomas Hjelmberg No. of Employees: 50 QPS are specialists in software solutions for marine spatial data. Software products for efficient data collec
- The FPSO Cost Discussion page: 46
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Maritime Reporter
on August 2015
At first, the oil-price and project-cancellation forecasts had hushed the audience at FPSO Europe Congress 2015. Speaker No. 1 had delegates looking at each other for signs of fear. Then, rival contractors — veterans of many a bitter tender — piled on the logic of their own methods for cost-cutting
- Interview: Germán Carlos Suárez Calvo, CEO of Astican & Astander Shipyards page: 42
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Maritime Reporter
on August 2015
How did you find a career in the maritime industry? As a consequence of my father´s dedication to the industry, as founder of a shipping agency in the early eighties as well as partner in a large shipping company and shipyard´s ownership, I grew up in this atmosphere and orientated my academic trai