Tag: Canada

RightShip and Green Marine team up for shipping sustainability

Quebec City, QC, Thursday June 2, 2016 – Green Marine and RightShip signed a Memorandum of Understanding underscoring a new collaboration to advance environmental sustainability in the maritime sector. The MoU, signed yesterday during Green Marine’s 9th Annual Conference, GreenTech 2016, in Quebec City, Quebec, will serve as a framework to establish a productive working relationship with an overall view...

Industry Welcomes World’s First Ocean-Going Vessels Capable of Running on Methanol

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – April 11, 2016) – Starting in April, Waterfront Shipping Company Ltd. (WFS), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), Westfal-Larsen Management (WL), and Marinvest/Skagerack Invest (Marinvest) are proud to welcome innovative, clean-burning, fuel-efficient vessels to the sea. These seven 50,000 dead weight tonne vessels are built with the first-of-its kind MAN B&W ME-LGI 2-stroke dual fuel engines that...

CTA Review – my comments to Canada’s Minister of Transport

Dear Minister Garneau, I am writing to you, to express my disappointment in the recent submission of recommendations under the Marine Section of the Canada Transportation Act Review (CTA), submitted to you, in December 2015, by the review panel’s chair, Hon. David Emerson. A little about me; I am a Transport Canada Marine Safety certified Marine Engineer; I completed a...

APEGBC joint dinner / presentation with CIMarE and SNAME

Joint Dinner Meeting of the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of BC, and the Society of Naval Architect and Marine Engineers – March 30, 2016 The Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of BC a dinner meeting and has invited has organized the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering and the Society of Naval Architects...