Nautilus International, the UK's largest maritime union, has condemned P&O Ferries for continuing to exploit agency crew recruited from overseas. Recently, Nautilus received information that P&O Ferries had retained two new crewing agencies, with the main one - Phil Crew Management Limited - being based in Malta. [Read more...]
Kongsberg Maritime has won the contract to supply its Kamewa waterjets for two fast ferries to be built by Singapore's Penguin Shipyard on behalf of a Middle East interest. Each of the new 56 m ropaxes will be equipped with four Kongsberg Kamewa 71 S-4 [Read more...]
Finnlines, a leading operator of ropaxes in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, has signed an agreement with NAPA, a maritime software and data services solution provider. Under the agreement, NAPA will install electronic reporting, fleet monitoring and stability management solutions software on two [Read more...]