Albion Marine Solutions has signed a large contract with the Government of Canada for services in vessel disposal. Canada’s coastlines are a source of inspiration and pride. The Oceans Protection Plan, a $1.5 billion initiative, is the largest investment ever made to protect Canada’s coasts and waterways. The strategy develops close collaboration with Indigenous people, local stakeholders, and coastal communities. Director, Sergiy Yakovenko, commented: “Albion Marine is very proud to put our vast project management expertise to a good cause. This strategy aims to protect Canadian coastlines and provide clean water for future generations. It improves marine safety system, and provides economic opportunities for Canadians”
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More women are joining the maritime ranks in a variety of professions within the industry. To encourage this trend, IMO supported a training course aimed at female officials from maritime and port authorities. The course covered lectures on port management, port security, marine environment, facilitation of maritime traffic, marketing, port logistics and other topics. The port management course was delivered through IMO’s Women in Maritime programme. It comes as part of the IMO’s ongoing and increasing efforts to support the UN Sustainable Development Goal: achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/WhatsNew/Pages/default.aspx
The Shanghai Futures Exchange revealed that China plans to launch a bonded low-sulphur bunker oil contract that will enable foreign investors to participate in trading by the end of 2019. https://safety4sea.com/china-aims-to-a-low-sulphur-bunker-fuel-oil-future-by-end-2019/
IMO Compendium on facilitation and electronic business has been approved, to support harmonization and standardization of electronic messages. The compendium includes a new standard IMO reference data set which will be used as the basis for automated and digital systems for exchange of information when ships arrive and depart from ports. The information data set supports mandatory reporting formalities for ships, cargo and persons on board and can be also extended to support commercial business and international shipping. https://issuu.com/imo-news/docs/imo_news_-_summer_issue_-_2019/22
Albion Marine Solutions Ltd is pleased to warm welcome Dr. Anowarul Bashar, PEng, as our new Director of Engineering. Dr. Bashar has Bachelor, Masters and Ph.D. all three degrees are in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He invented a New FE Theory named Numerical Weight Function Method (NWFM), parallel to ANSYS, in the domain marine and structural world, developed computer programs to solve critical problems, applied significantly by saving a lot of computer resources, included in university syllabus and honored with Gold Medal. He is also a Licensed Professional Engineer. He has worked in ABS HQ, IRS HQ as Authorized Signatory, in a Public Sector Dockyard as 2nd in Command and successfully dealt with seven concurrent Coast Guard Vessels comprising of 100m$. While working in NOV HQ he has successfully accomplished Hebron Projects in NL, Canada. Dr. Bashar brings to Albion his rich and vast 26+ years of professional, engineering, leadership and managerial experience in solving various types of real life problems in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. His aim is to develop Albion Marine Solutions’ level into the Best of the Best (BOB) multi-discipline engineering and project management team in Marine World. 
