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General Manager Adam Beck and Ship

Repair Manager Mark Donahue. Contact information for the company is as fol- lows: Vigor Marine Tacoma, 13 East F

Street, Tacoma, WA 98421, Tel: (253) 627-9136.

EIMA Safety Training

Emirates International Maritime Acad- emy (EIMA) concluded an STCW stan- dard five-day fire safety and fire-fighting training course and mooring safety for port workers for a select staff of one of the world’s leading maritime services provider, P&O Port Services division.

The course, conducted within the prem- ises of EIMA in Dubai, covered various critical areas of safety, personal survival techniques, and fire fighting in the ma- rine environment, including extinguish- ing different types of fire, search and rescue, familiarization with fire fighting equipments, crowed management, and the use of breathing apparatus.

Canfornav Expands

ShipDecision Use

Canadian ship owner Canfornav has added a new set of features to the Char- tering Module of its ShipDecision mar- itime software suite. The Module gives

Charterers one consolidated view of all information related to a Contract of Af- freightment including: all documents and emails pertaining to the COA; cargo type and volume; allotment across a specific number of voyages; and a complete trail of all actions taken to move the cargo. Ul- timately, the consolidated view makes it easier to track and manage the individual voyages taken to fulfill each Contract of

Affreightment

APL Wins NAMEPA Enviro Award

Clay Maitland, Founding Chairman of the North American Marine Environment

Protection Association (NAMEPA), an- nounced that the liner company APL is the recipient of NAMEPA’s 2010 Marine

Environment Protection Award. The award will be presented at NAMEPA’s

Awards Dinner to be held at the Harvard

Club in New York following NAMEPA’s seminar on Corporate Risk Management, which will focus on the need of the mar- itime industry to evaluate measures re- quired to retain corporate value in a challenging operating environment.

STX Norway Offshore to Build

Icebreaker Tugs

STX Norway Offshore has signed con- tracts for the building of two icebreaker tugs to JSC Circle Marine Invest. The vessels will be delivered in 2011, and the total value of the two contracts amounts to approximately $71.4m. JSC Circle

Marine Invest will through its subsidiary

Caspian Offshore Construction in Kaza- khstan operate the vessels in the Kasha- gan field of the northern Caspian Sea.

The vessels are designed by the STX Eu- rope subsidiary Aker Arctic, and have a length of 213.2 ft and a beam of 53.8 ft.

The vessels will have the Ice class notifi- cation 1A* Super, according to the

Finnish-Swedish Ice classification rules.

Further, the vessels will be equipped and designed for other operations like fire- fighting, rescue operations and towing in shallow waters.

TRAC Ecological Products

Represented by PAC West

TRAC Ecological Products, manufac- turer of environment-friendly products for onboard equipment cleaning and maintenance, has appointed Pac-West

Marketing to represent its product line in the western U.S. and British Columbia. www.trac-online.com

Viking Introduces

Design-Your-Own Lifejackets

Viking Life-Saving Equipment has launched a new product line: design- your-own inflatable SOLAS lifejackets.

Made possible by a new, modular design,

Viking customers can tailor their own so- lutions for specific working conditions, such as those encountered in maritime 42 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

NEWS PEOPLE & COMPANIES

WSS moves 1500HP Rig

In a demonstration of the global networking capabilities of Wilhelmsen Ships

Service the company recently arranged transportation of an oil rig from Edmonton

Canada, through the United States to Kuwait. The land based oil rig consisted of 3,675 cubic metres of cargo with the heaviest unit being 52 tons. The rig was trans- ported on behalf of WSS customer, Burgan Company, which specialises in well drilling, trading and maintenance. Burgan is the leading company in Kuwait for oil well exploration, drilling and work-over. “The challenge was crating and dis- patching 45 truck-loads of cargo across 3,800 km from Canada to Houston Port,

USA in time to connect with a heavy carrier vessel bound for Kuwait.” says Wil- helmsen Ships Service Assistant Sales Manager, Arun Ravindran.