Secretary-General Of International Maritime Organization Visits IMSO

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The IMSO Director General, Captain Esteban Pacha-Vicente, today announced that Mr Koji Sekimizu, the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) visited IMSO Headquarters on 28 January 2013.

WSS honoured at Dubai Trade Awards WSS Dubai awarded Freight Forwarder of the Year 2012

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The team from WSS Dubai picked up the award for Freight Forwarder of the Year 2012 on Monday night at the Dubai Trade Awards in Dubai.

Crew Cashcard A Continuing Success

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Over 100,000 seafarers currently committed to the CrewCashCard, with a total potential of 1.5-million more to come.

Green Tech Marine Has Won an Order to Supply Norwegian Cruise Line with Four Compact Scrubbers in March

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Green Tech Marine – a world leading scrubber supplier – has signed a contract to deliver four scrubbers to Norwegian Cruise Line’s “Pride of America” in March. The scrubbers will be installed during a dry dock in Pearl Harbor Naval shipyard.

TORM chooses Transas Marine Dual ECDIS

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TORM has chosen Transas Marine as an ECDIS supplier for five of its vessels.

RINA Group To Support Development Of UAE Class Society

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International classification society RINA Group has been chosen as the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) partner to support the development of Tasneef, a new classification society for the United Arab Emirates.

ECDIS Workbook From Transas Marine

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In response to the growing demand in ECDIS Training and in order to contribute to the knowledge improvement on ECDIS use, Transas Marine has published an ECDIS Workbook which can be used together with the Transas ECDIS demo software, both available for free download from the company’s website.

Horizons January 2013 Out Now

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In this issue you can find out about how Lloyd’s Register technology is helping to transform container operations from loading and carriage to final delivery, why LR has reached new heights with two global technology centres, and exciting developments in South Asia.

IMO Secretary-General Launches 2013 World Maritime Day Theme: “Sustainable Development: IMO’s Contribution Beyond Rio+20”

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IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has launched this year’s World Maritime Day theme, “Sustainable development: IMO’s contribution beyond Rio+20”, calling on Governments and the shipping industry to join together and provide a positive contribution towards formulating sustainable maritime development goals.

Maersk Line North Asia CEO Optimistic On Global Economy

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“We’ve been on a real roller-coaster,” says Tim Smith, Maersk Line’s North Asia CEO, but he is “hopeful that the good strong shipments we’ve seen in December will continue a little bit into the new year.”