24 Oct

ShipConstructor meets user needs with optimized online support

Professional Mariner StaffIndustry News
(VICTORIA, BC -- October 23 2007) ShipConstructor Software Inc. (SSI), a designer of ship software systems, has launched a comprehensive knowledge-base customer-support website to proactively address a wide range of user needs.Users can utilize SSI’s online support system either by applying key words to search the entire knowledge database for a specific solution, or by subscribing to automatic updates related to…
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23 Oct

Seaspan selects Transas for its Canada-based fleet

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Transas shipping barges like this one have been fitted with the Transas Navi-Sailor 3000 ECSi in an effort to provide even better service.  (N. VANCOUVER, BC -- October 10, 2007) Seaspan, Canada’s premier marine transportation company, has standardized on the Transas Navi-Sailor 3000 ECSi for its fleet of coastal, deepsea tug, barge transportation and shipdocking fleet, being supplied and serviced…
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22 Oct

Apax acquisition creates satellite solutions for maritime fleets

Professional Mariner StaffIndustry News
(PARIS, FRANCE -- September 6, 2007) Apax Partners France today announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of Telenor Satellite Services and is incorporating the company into the new Vizada brand. Vizada is a provider of broadband fixed satellite solutions for maritime and land-based customers. Vizada’s services will be organized into two lines of business, Mobile Satellite Services (MSS),…
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15 Oct

Ensolve Biosystems supplies bilge water treatment system for MARAD’s reserve fleet

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(RALEIGH, NC -- October 15, 2007) EnSolve Biosystems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) to supply a PetroLiminator Oil Water Separator for treating bilge water from its fleet service craft at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, California.The patented PetroLiminator system uses a three-stage process to treat the oily water. In the first stage, free-phase oil…
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15 Oct

Dan Proctor joins Ross & Baruzzini as vice president

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(ST. LOUIS, MO --October 10, 2007) Dan Proctor has joined Ross & Baruzzini, Inc., as Vice President of Client Solutions and Consulting.  Based in New York, Proctor will focus on developing homeland security solutions and business relationships in the Critical Infrastructure and Continuity of Government markets of transportation and government, particularly along the eastern seaboard. Protor has more than 27…
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12 Oct

Crowley’s Jose Nazario elected Vice President of the Puerto Rico Shipping Association

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(SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO -- October 10, 2007) Jose Francisco Nazario, Crowley's finance director in Puerto Rico, was elected vice president of the Puerto Rico Shipping Association during a meeting held last week in Puerto Rico. Nazario was previously secretary of the organization and is an official member of the association's Silver Anchor Club.      Nazario, who earned a bachelor's degree…
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