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  • NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 80% of scrapped ships in 2024 dismantled under sub-par and high-risk conditions

    3 February 2025
    Environment, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Despite ongoing concerns over unsafe and environmentally damaging shipbreaking practices, in 2024, 80% of the global vessel tonnage scrapped—totaling 255 out of 409 dismantled ships—was broken under substandard conditions on the beaches of South Asia, Belgian NGO Shipbreaking Platform has found. Notwithstanding the grave consequences for workers, with nine people losing their lives and another […]

  • Interview: Maersk Supply growing in Aberdeen despite expected company sale

    5 April 2018

    Offshore support vessel operator Maersk Supply Service has seen its Aberdeen team grow in the past two years and is working at becoming more than just a vessel supplier.

  • UK oil & gas firm boosts its stake in two Angolan offshore blocks

    19 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Afentra has inked a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Azule Energy Angola Production to boost its stake in two blocks offshore Angola.

  • Gastech: Energy Leaders Discuss Dispelling Shale Gas Myths, UK

    11 October 2012

    Representatives from three of the biggest energy companies on the planet debated how to tackle public and political perceptions that have all but halted unconventional and shale gas projects in Europe. Day Three of the Gastech Conference & Exhibition at the ExCeL London, also saw a number of major new contracts signed by top companies […]

  • European Commission urged to reassess hydrogen policy

    4 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Hydrogen Europe and 16 other European associations working on the development of the hydrogen market have called on the European Commission to revise the bloc’s hydrogen policy.

  • India’s LNG terminal receives commissioning cargo

    14 January 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    India’s Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a unit of the state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), has received its inaugural commissioning liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo at its terminal at Chhara Port in India’s Gujarat state.

  • USS New Orleans commissioned in New Orleans

    10 March 2007

    USS New Orleans commissioned, a $1.3B transport ship, took 5 years to build. With the boom of cannons, the Navy commissioned the USS New Orleans before thousands of onlookers Saturday, marking the first time since at least World War II a Navy ship has been built and commissioned in its namesake city.

  • Aker: EU Commission approves intended transaction

    28 March 2006

    On 4 January 2006 Aker Yards and ALSTOM announced their intention to join forces in shipbuilding. Aker Yards has been notified by the European Commission that it has no objections to the intended transaction.

  • EU Commission Clears LNG Bunkering JV

    23 August 2012

    The European Commission said in a statement it has granted clearance under the EU Merger Regulation to the proposed acquisition of joint control of a newly created joint venture by Marquard & Bahls AG and Linde AG, all of Germany. M&B operates in oil trading, tank-terminal storage, aviation fuelling and renewable energy. Linde supplies industrial […]

  • Commission Takes Look at Tijuana River (USA)

    8 May 2012

    “It’s not the fences that matter, it’s the gates,” Dave Gibson told attendees at the U.S. International Border and Water Commission collaborative meeting held here April 19 at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. Gibson, executive director of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, was not talking about the international border fence […]

  • European Commission starts European Hydrogen Week

    30 November 2021
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has opened the second edition of the European Hydrogen Week on 29 November 2021.

  • Setting Up New Commission for Dredging Management

    14 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Central Dredging Association (CEDA) is setting up a new Commission for Dredging Management and has already issued an invitation to members interested in joining it. The Dredging Management Commission (DMC) is being established to fulfill a need for discussion, innovation and questions on the management of dredging works in the broadest sense. As such it […]

  • Mississippi River Commission Public Hearing in August

    12 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Mississippi River Commission will host a public hearing Friday, August 12 at Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton, Ill, aboard the Motor Vessel MISSISSIPPI. The hearing is open to the public and scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. “Anyone with an interest is invited to present their views and suggestions on matters affecting […]

  • Michigan State Waterways Commission to Meet Tomorrow

    15 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Michigan State Waterways Commission (MSWC) will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday, December 16, 2015. Topics for the meeting will include; presentations from David Lorenz, Travel Michigan, Ms. Kim Fish, Department of Environmental Quality, Maia Turek, DNR – Marketing and Outreach and Krista Sturtevant-Good, CAMIS and the park and recreation reservation system. There will […]

  • CEDA’s Environment Commission Gets New Chair

    27 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Since October last year, CEDA’s (Central Dredging Association) Environment Commission has a new chair. Frederik Roose of the Maritime Access Division of the Flemish Ministry of Mobility and Public Works, Belgium succeeded Polite Laboyrie, Witteveen+Bos, the Netherlands, who has been chairing the CEC for 8 years and who moved on to CEDA President. Frederik graduated […]

  • Dunkerque LNG commissioning automated filling station

    26 February 2020

    Dunkerque LNG the operator of France’s Dunkirk liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal is commissioning Europe’s first automated tank-truck LNG filling station.

  • New Project 20380 Corvette ‘Boiky’ Commissioned

    20 May 2013

    The new Project 20380 corvette ‘Boiky’ constructed by JSC Severnaya Verf shipyard for Baltic Fleet (BF) has been commissioned. Boiky is the third vessel of Project 20380, developed by Almaz Design Bureau, for the shipyard. Lead ship of the series, corvette Stereguschiy, was delivered in 2007. The second corvette – Soobrazitelny – was delivered to the […]

  • Doyle Leaves US Federal Maritime Commission

    28 November 2017

    Commissioner William P. Doyle of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) informed about his decision to leave the commission on January 3, 2018. Reflecting on the change in the international maritime industry including consolidations, mergers, bankruptcies and mega ocean carrier alliances, the Commissioner said he was involved in negotiating terms and conditions into carrier alliance […]

  • Jordan Commissions Its Floating LNG Terminal

    29 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Kingdom of Jordan has received its first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo on board the Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU), Golar Eskimo, marking the official commissioning of the terminal. The FSRU arrived in Aqaba, Jordan on 25th May 2015, where it will be permanently moored on the Red Sea coastline. The LNG cargo was […]

  • Siemens Working on Commissioning Beatrice OTM 1

    21 March 2018
    Storage

    Siemens Transmission and Distribution is carrying out commissioning works on the recently installed Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) at the Beatrice offshore wind farm in preparation for the energisation of the system.

  • European Commission Proposes Upgrade for Key Seaports

    23 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    The European Commission has today launched a new initiative to improve port operations and onward transport connections at 319 key seaports along Europe’s coastline. The guidelines and legal changes being proposed will help port operators upgrade their services and facilities as well as giving them more financial autonomy. 74% of the goods entering or leaving […]

  • European Commission OKs Greece-TAP Agreement

    4 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The European Commission has found the Host Government Agreement between the Greek authorities and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline to be in line with EU state aid rules. The project should improve the security and diversity of EU energy supplies without unduly distorting competition in the single market. Margrethe Vestager, commissioner in charge of competition policy, stated: […]

  • Indigenously Built IPV Rajratan Commissioned, India

    12 February 2013

    Indian Coast Guard Ship “Rajratan”, the fifth of a series of eight Inshore Patrol Vessels (IPVs) was commissioned by Director General Indian Coast Guard, Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan in Kolkata yesterday, February 11. Indigenously built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, the 50m long IPV displaces 300 tonnes and can achieve a maximum speed […]

  • European Commission penalises Spanish for over-fishing

    25 March 2011

    In a move to protect dwindling fish stocks, the European Commission (EC) recently took decisive action by significantly reducing Spain’s mackerel quotas over the next few years as a result of over-fishing. This over-fishing of mackerel by the Spanish has been of major concern to the Irish fishing industry and was brought to the attention […]

  • QED Naval commissions Subhub tidal platform

    14 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    QED Naval has completed the commissioning of all onboard ballast and instrumentation systems on the Subhub tidal energy platform.