Maritime Magazine

  The new Viking Neptune was delivered to Swiss based Viking on November 10 from Fincantieri’s shipyard in Ancona, Italy, with a fuel cell installation aboard. Viking Neptune, ninth of this class, marks a quantum leap in the longstanding cooperation between Viking and Fincantieri for designing, delivering and operating environmentally considerate cruise vessels. The two […]

  Trois-Rivières – As part of its 140thanniversary celebrations, the Port of Trois-Rivières announced that more than 140 trees and shrubs were planted throughout the year. The Port carried out these plantings on three of its properties, which border residential sectors and a commercial artery, as part of its continuing efforts to optimize its integration into

  PORT HAWKESBURY, NS – On November 10, Mike Kelloway, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and Member of Parliament for Cape Breton–Canso, on behalf of the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, announced an investment of nearly $1.8 million in Net Zero Atlantic to lay the

  GCT Canada has ordered 10 Konecranes RTGs (rubber-tired gantry cranes) for its GCT Deltaport container terminal at the Port of Vancouver. The terminal currently operates a fleet of 12 Konecranes RTGs. The new cranes will be delivered in Q1 2024. “When the new RTGs are working, we’ll have a high-performing fleet of 22 Konecranes

  St. Catharines, ON –  Algoma Central Corporation  today announced that it has doubled its investment in the FureBear joint venture, and will construct four additional dual-fuel ice class 1A 17,999 DWT climate-friendly product tankers with their partner Furetank AB  of Sweden, bringing the total investment to eight vessels. Algoma owns 50% of the joint

   Hamilton, ON – The Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, today announced up to nearly $5 million in funding under the National Trade Corridors Fund for the Building Capacity in Canada’s Steel Supply Chain project. The close to $10 million total project will be undertaken by the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority and will relieve

  During the World Leaders Summit at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP27), Canada and the United States announced their joint work to facilitate the establishment of a Green Shipping Corridors Network in the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway System. Under the Initiative, the

  Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: A new Action Plan, launched at COP 27 by UN organizations, shipowners and unions, sets out recommendations to upskill seafarers to meet shipping’s decarbonisation goals. The plan is in response to findings from new research, the modelling of which cautions that as many as 800,000 seafarers will require additional training

  The White House has announced the appointment of former Milwaukee port director, Adam Tindall-Schlicht, as the next Administrator of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS). Mr. Tindall-Schlicht resigned his position at Port Milwaukee on October 19. In recent years, the GLS has been managed by Deputy Administrator Craig Middlebrook. An agency of

  Shipments of Western Canadian grain are on the rise at the Port of Thunder Bay.  Grain elevators handled 840,000 tonnes of wheat, canola, and other grains during the month of October.  Monthly grain shipments increased by 33% from September, and 8% over last October.  The increase was expected as the fall grain harvest moves