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Commander of the SVG Coast Guard Service, Commander Brenton Cain will be celebrating 35 years in the St Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard Service on February 2, 2021.
Commander Cain, who was enlisted on February 02, 1986, “has amassed vast experience, knowledge and expertise in navigation, seamanship and leadership over his long and distinguished career,” a release from the police public relations department said.
He has attended some of the most prestigious naval colleges and schools including – US Coast Guard Officer School, Virginia, the Canadian Coast Guard College, National Defence University, USA; US National Defence University, Argentina, World Maritime Organization, Japan, among others.
Korean Shipbuilders Sweep New Orders Worth US$13.9 Bil. in Q4 of 2020
Korean shipbuilders made an impressive comeback in the fourth quarter of 2020 by bagging new orders worth US$13.9 billion.
The large order intake represented a dramatic turnaround from the order drought that the shipbuilders had suffered until the end of the third quarter due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The value of the orders booked in the fourth quarter is double the cumulative total of the US$7 billion recorded in the first three quarters of 2020.
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KOSE), a shipbuilding arm of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, recorded US$5.5 billion in new order intake in the fourth quarter alone. The figure represented 55 percent of the total orders awarded to the shipbuilder in 2020.
Naming Ceremony Held for S. Korea’s First LNG-powered Twin Ore Carriers
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HL Eco, South Korea’s first LNG-powered ore carrier (image: Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries)
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) South Korea has developed the nation’s first-of-its-kind eco-friendly oceangoing vessel that can reduce the generation of fine dust, one of the main culprits of environmental pollution, by up to 99 percent.
The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries held a naming ceremony for the nation’s first liquefied national gas (LNG)-powered twin oceangoing ore carriers HL Eco and HL Green at Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co. compound in Youngnam County, South Jeolla Province on Friday.