March 4 - Intermarine has named Mac Bruton as director of business development, Americas.
Bruton, who has over 20 years of experience in the international shipping and infrastructure development industries, will be based in New Orleans.
From 2002-2006 he held the position of global accounts manager at Intermarine.
He rejoins Intermarine from Dan Gulf Shipping, where he served as vice president of sales and pricing and was responsible for managing the liner service Caytrans BBC.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has joined global public-private partnership the First Movers Coalition (FMC), which is working to scale the most critical, emerging climate technologies required to decarbonise the world’s heavy-emitting sectors.
The World Shipping Council (WSC) has appointed Joe Kramek as its president and ceo, succeeding John Butler who retires at the end of July.
Finnish shipping company Meriaura has transported offshore template structures for Subsea7 using its CO2 emissions reducing Eco Voy-transport concept.
Total cargo throughput of the port of Antwerp-Bruges amounted to 70.4 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 2.4 percent compared to the same period last year, with container throughput increasing and the general cargo sector showing signs of recovery.
DEME has been awarded two contracts by Prysmian for the engineering and installation works for the IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore grid systems in the Netherlands.
Japanese shipping group MOL has placed an order with Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering for the construction of an open deck carrier vessel, designed primarily for the transport of offshore wind energy components.
