October 10 - FleetWeather Ocean Services has opened an office in Singapore and will be exhibiting at this week's Breakbulk Americas Conference & Exhibition in Houston, TX.

The company, which provides weather forecasting, routing, vessel performance monitoring and optimisation services for the commercial shipping industry, opened the new office in Singapore to enhance its ability to service the growing demand for its services in the Asia Pacific region and to offer local sales and support services to the rapidly expanding base of customers and prospects.

Director of sales & marketing, Jess Hurwitz, and our director of new business, Tristan James, will be available at the Breakbulk Americas event to discuss weather routing or performance monitoring needs.

"We have seen significant growth in our customer base and level of interest in our services and solutions," said Hurwitz.

The January/February edition of HLPFI will include our first survey of metocean forecasting services and the companies which provide them. If you have something to contribute to this survey please contact ian@heavyliftpfi.com