International Cruise Ship Industry has now published online it's 2023 Germany Cruise Report. In 2022, more than 2.5 mill Germans were reported to have undertaken a sea cruise, while 644,800 Germans took a river cruise. This year, Hamburg will play host to at least four [Read more...]
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...]
Survival technology solutions provider, Survitec has introduced a new interactive safety management solution. Dubbed a safety management and rapid response technology interface (SMARR-TI), uses a graphical monitoring interface to integrate fire detection and fire suppression systems within a single system. SMARR-TI, which Survitec developed in [Read more...]