Danaos: "The 25 knot industry". Also in this issue: Ballast Water Management, German Committee and Solutions for Maersk Line.
Date: 2008-02-13
John Coustas of Danaos shipping: The 25 knot service speed industry – no options to this
Danaos is a Greek shipowner specialising in the container trade – its business has grown from three liners ten years ago to 34 vessels today. The Greek shipping cluster has normally been in tank and bulk trade only – but Danaos is different.
New Ballast Water Management Convention adopted by the IMO
The IMO held an International Conference on Ballast Water Management for ships 9–13 February. The new International Convention for the Control and Management of Ship’s Ballast Water and Sediments was adopted at the conference.
Boxship Conference 2003
DNV’s presentation at the Boxship Conference in London in October 2003 was the best paper presented at the conference.
“Do you know what’s in that box?”
… was the topic discussed by leading industry players at the DNV seminar in London in October 2003.
German committee established
DNV has established a German committee consisting of 18 leading managers from shipowning and shipbuilding companies.
Solutions for Maersk Line, Limited: DNV as a competence base
“We use DNV as a competence base. DNV is the best at hydrodynamics and we cannot afford to make any mistakes here,” says Stephen M. Carmel, Senior Vice President of Maersk Line, Limited, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia.
More than 300 million TEU handled worldwide in 2003
Following their steep growth in 2002, the world’s largest container ports continued to perform very well in 2003.