729 results found for 'cuba'

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  • UK offshore wind farm now equipped with scour protection doubling as marine life habitat

    16 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Innovation

    RWE has installed around 75,000 reef cubes developed by the nature-inclusive technology designer ARC marine at the Rampion offshore wind farm in the UK, in what the Rampion owner says is a “global first”. The cubes are a specially eco-engineered scour protection solution for wind turbine foundations, and this represents their first full-scale deployment at […]

  • SOCAR strengthens energy ties in oil & gas realm with ExxonMobil and Canadian player

    3 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production

    Thanks to a new set of deals, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) is pooling resources with the U.S.-headquartered ExxonMobil and Canada’s Gran Tierra Energy to explore energy opportunities.

  • MPCC orders two 1,600 TEU fuel-efficient boxships

    14 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norwegian container tonnage provider MPC Container Ships (MPCC) has placed an order in China for two eco-friendly 1,600 TEU container vessels in combination with eight-year charters.

  • Global OTEC prepares for first deployment in Atlantic Ocean (Video)

    25 February 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology, Vision

    UK-based company Global OTEC is preparing to deploy its floating cylindrical hull into the Atlantic Ocean, with operations set to begin once weather conditions allow. The deployment will take place at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) off Gran Canaria, Spain. The company recently completed the final preparatory steps, including anchor installation and […]

  • US order sets date for Chevron to grind oil exports from Venezuela to a halt

    5 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Chevron has been given a 30-day deadline to bring a wind-down of its crude oil production and exports in Venezuela to an end, as its previous license has been revoked by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

  • Lloyd’s Register approves Lehmann Marine’s CUBE battery system

    6 February 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Equipment, Green Marine, Regulation & Policy, Technology

    Lehmann Marine, a Germany-based lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery systems specialist, has received type approval from the classification society Lloyd’s Register for its CUBE battery system.

  • Carnival: Cuba-Born Passengers Cleared to Sail to Cuba

    22 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    Carnival Corporation & plc will sail as planned from the U.S. to Cuba with all travelers, including Cuba-born passengers, the company said, having received approval from Cuba to allow its cruise ships to operate in a similar manner as current air charter operations. Carnival’s brand Fathom is scheduled to embark on its first voyage to the island […]

  • Contract in Cuba

    13 March 2008

    Van Oord has been awarded a contract for maintenance dredging of the access channel and bassin in the harbour of Moa, Cuba. The contract value amounts to some EUR 2 million. Client is Moa Nicel SA. Execution of the project start mid March and is scheduled for completion in April 2008. Van Oord will deploy […]

  • Pearl Seas Cruises Jumps on Cuba Bandwagon

    28 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Connecticut-based luxury cruise line Pearl Seas Cruises has become the latest in line to include visits to Cuba in its itinerary for the next season. Pearl Seas Cruises plans to offer a series of 7 to 10-night cultural voyages to Cuba in the spring of 2016 aboard the new luxury 210-passenger cruise ship Pearl Mist. […]

  • PDVSA’s Well Offshore Cuba Disappoints

    2 November 2012

    Venezuela’s oil company PDVSA has decided to plug and abandon its exploration well offshore Cuba, according to Granma newspaper. The Cabo de San Antonio 1X well, drilled by the Scarabeo 9 rig, failed to show commercial hydrocarbon volumes, but, according to Granma, valuable geological information has been obtained. Cuba’s state oil company, Cubapetróleo (Cupet) has […]

  • Carnival’s Fathom Sets Course for Cuba

    1 October 2015
    Business & Finance

     Carnival Corporation’s newest brand, Fathom, the pioneer in social impact travel, announced that it intends to visit three ports of call in Cuba — Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. It also unveiled the intended 7-day itinerary that Fathom travelers will experience featuring what has been described as part learning, part sharing, and all immersion […]

  • Pearl Seas Cruises Jumps on Cuba Bandwagon

    28 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Connecticut-based luxury cruise line Pearl Seas Cruises has become the latest in line to include visits to Cuba in its itinerary for the next season. Pearl Seas Cruises plans to offer a series of 7 to 10-night cultural voyages to Cuba in the spring of 2016 aboard the new luxury 210-passenger cruise ship Pearl Mist. […]

  • Carnival Confident Cuban Nationals Will Be Allowed to Sail to Cuba

    18 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    Carnival Corporation said today that it was resuming talks with Cuba to allow cruise ships to operate in the same manner as current air charter operations, which transport Cuba-born individuals to and from Cuba. Carnival added that it was accepting bookings on Fathom, from all travelers to Cuba, regardless of their country of origin. While […]

  • Carnival’s Fathom Sets Course for Cuba

    1 October 2015
    Business & Finance

     Carnival Corporation’s newest brand, Fathom, the pioneer in social impact travel, announced that it intends to visit three ports of call in Cuba — Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. It also unveiled the intended 7-day itinerary that Fathom travelers will experience featuring what has been described as part learning, part sharing, and all immersion […]

  • CNPC signs coops deal in Cuba

    25 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    On July 22 in Havana, Capital of Cuba, CNPC and CUPET, cuban state oil company, signed a framework agreement on increasing crude output and production sharing, and a cooperation agreement on drilling services. The contract was signed in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Cuban President Raul Castro, CNPC Vice President Wang Dongjin […]

  • Virginia Port Authority Eyes Tighter Ties with Cuba

    7 January 2016

    The Virginia Port Authority has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Cuban National Port Authority to evaluate commercial opportunities between the Port of Virginia and Cuba’s newly opened Port of Mariel Special Development Project.  The MOU establishes a platform for cooperation and information sharing aimed at developing links between Cuba and Virginia to […]

  • Alabama, Cuba to Strengthen Maritime Ties

    3 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Alabama State Port Authority and the National Port Administration of Cuba signed a five-year, cooperative agreement to collaborate in port and cargo marketing studies and strategies, engage in promotion and exhibition activities, and share data. “We are seeing increasing demand for normalized trade between the United States and Cuba, and it is our goal […]

  • Australia’s MEO enters Cuban oil and gas sector

    3 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    MEO Australia Limited has executed the Cuba Block 9 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with the national oil company Cuba Petróleo Union (CUPET) in Havana, Cuba. MEO says that the execution of the Block 9 PSC represents the culmination of over three years of negotiations between MEO and CUPET and is MEO’s first entry into the […]

  • Mississippi Port Duo Deepens Ties with Cuba

    22 February 2017

    Mississippi’s ports of Pascagoula and Gulfport signed deals with Cuba on February 20, with an aim of bettering business ties with this country. The signings took place during a three-day visit of a congressional delegation from the United States to Cuba. Manuel Perez Guerra, General Director of the National Port Administration of Cuba signed agreements with […]

  • Trump Administration Bans Cuba Cruise Ship Port Calls

    5 June 2019
    Business & Finance, Rules & Regulation

    In the latest wave of Cuba restrictions, the Trump administration banned cruise ship stops to the island nation.

  • Norwegian Sky Stays in Cuba

    5 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Cruise Line will further extend its offering of weekly roundtrip cruises from Miami to Cuba through 2018, with 33 new voyages. The Norwegian Sky will begin her 2018 Cuba cruise season in March, sailing four-day roundtrip cruises from Miami, with 32 of the cruises to include an overnight stay in Cuba’s capital of Havana, […]

  • Fathom Adds Two Cuba Sailing Dates for Fall 2016

    14 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Carnival Corporation’s newest brand Fathom has added two Cuba cruise dates for fall 2016 in response to strong demand by its travelers. The additional sailings will take place the weeks of October 9 and November 6. For both week-long cruises, Fathom’s Adonia will depart PortMiami for three destinations in Cuba, including two days in Havana. Fathom’s […]

  • Trump’s Policy on Cuba to Have Limited Effect on Shipping

    21 June 2017

    The impact of the reversal of policy toward Cuba announced by the US President Donald Trump is expected to be limited on maritime trade, marine insurer West of England said. On June 16, Trump issued a memorandum on strengthening the US policy toward Cuba, calling the relaxation of sanctions against the country introduced by President Obama a “completely one-sided deal”. […]

  • MSC Opera Finds New Home in Cuba

    3 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Cruise line company MSC Cruises announced today that, starting in December 2015, its 2,120-guest MSC Opera will homeport in Havana for the winter 2015-16 season to offer guests 16 Caribbean cruises. The completely renovated 65,542 GRT MSC Opera within the company’s €200 million Renaissance program will offer cruises to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Mexico with two nights […]

  • Zarubezhneft Days from Spudding Cuban Offshore Well

    15 November 2012

    Songa Offshore, the Cyprus-headquartered owner of offshore drilling rigs, announced that its Songa Mercur rig is not far from spudding its first well offshore Cuba. The company announced in its fleet status report that the rig has set sail from Trinidad to Cuba during the first week of November. Upon arrival to the Caribbean country’s […]