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  • North Korean Firm Renaming Ships to Dodge UN Sanctions

    26 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    A North Korean shipping company, blacklisted by the United Nations, has been renaming and reflagging its vessels to avoid an arms embargo, the UN said in a report. Namely, the U.N. Security Council committee imposed sanctions on Ocean Maritime Management (OMM) for smuggling Soviet-era arms from Cuba on board its ships. Under the sanctions, the company is subject to an […]

  • Highlights of the Week

    12 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (June 6-June 12, 2016).   Royal IHC Secures Order for the Largest Easydredge TSHD Royal IHC (IHC) has signed a new contract for an Easydredge® 3,700 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) for Tecnoimport and Empresa Constructora de Obras Marítimas in […]

  • Singapore Finds Chinpo Shipping Guilty of Illegal Arms Shipping

    15 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Singapore-based Chinpo Shipping was found guilty of being involved in illegal arms shipping from Cuba to North Korea aboard a general cargo ship in 2013 by a district court in Singapore on Monday, according to Reuters. The company was charged for facilitating financial assets or resources that could have been used to contribute to North Korea’s weapon […]

  • Ponant Starts Testing Solid Sail System on Its Vessel

    20 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ponant, Chantiers de l’Atlantique joined forces to test out Solid Sail system on Le Ponant.

  • MSC Cruises to Debut in China

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Cruise shipping company MSC Cruises has revealed plans to make its first sailing to China, with the newly-renovated MSC Lirica calling in Shanghai on May 1, 2016. The 65,000-GRT ship will make the company’s maiden call in China’s biggest megalopolis after a 60-day round-the-world Grand Voyage which departs on March 3, 2016 from Rio de […]

  • Seatronics Appoints New Sales Manager in Brazil

    19 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Seatronics do Brazil, an Acteon company, announces the appointment of Thiago Montanari as sales manager. Montanari is based in Rio de Janeiro and will report directly to Seatronics vice president, Fabio D’Agostino. Montanari has six years of experience in the offshore industry, working extensively in the Caspian (Kasakhstan), Mediterranean, Adriatic and Caribbean (Cuba) seas, as […]

  • Melbana boss resigns for health reasons

    12 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Managing director of oil and gas exploration company Melbana Energy has tendered his resignation for health reasons.

  • Oil majors evacuate Gulf of Mexico workers ahead of storm

    29 August 2016

    Oil giants BP and Shell have evacuated non-essential personnel from some of their Gulf of Mexico facilities ahead of the tropical depression forming in the Caribbean Sea. In a statement late on Friday, BP said it was closely monitoring the Caribbean Sea disturbance to “ensure the safety of our personnel and operations in the deepwater […]

  • Damex Shipyard Hands Over Two Tugs to Venezuela

    23 March 2012

    Damex Shipbuilding & Engineering recently delivered two tugboats, Caruao and Manaure, to Venezuela where they will be used in towing and rescuing operations in the country’s territorial waters. These state-of-the-art tugs come as a result of an Integrating Cooperation Agreement between Cuba and Venezuela. They were named after two Venezuelan aboriginal heroes. Manaure (Stan Tug […]

  • Search Under Way for Missing M/V Berkay N Crew Member

    27 November 2015

    The United States Coast Guard rescue crews are searching the Atlantic Ocean for a missing crew member suspected of having gone overboard from the 252-foot Chilean-flagged cargo vessel Berkay N during the vessel’s transit north of Puerto Rico. The missing crew member has been identified as Luis Leyva Aliaga, 62, a Chilean national and First […]

  • Carnival Cruise Line Names Its Newest Ship

    25 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Carnival Cruise Line named its newest ship, Carnival Horizon, in a ceremony held in New York on May 23.

  • US Sanctions Russian Ships for Jet Fuel Deliveries to Syria

    27 September 2019
    Rules & Regulation

    The vessels were involved in the illicit transfer of jet fuel to the Russian military in Syria.

  • Empress of the Seas Saves 2 Fishermen Stranded at Sea for 20 Days

    24 December 2018

    Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Empress of the Seas rescued two Costa Rican fishermen who were adrift since December 1.

  • Update: Florida Ports Closed Due to Hurricane Matthew

    6 October 2016

    The US Coast Guard has set port condition Zulu for South Florida ports, closing the ports to all vessel traffic due to the passing of the Hurricane Matthew. The USCG has closed Port Canaveral, Port Miami, Miami River, Port Everglades, Port of Palm Beach, Port of Fort Pierce and all other South Florida terminals and […]

  • Songa Offshore Fleet Status Update for September

    16 October 2012

    Songa Offshore, a Cyprus-based drilling contractor, has announced its drilling rig fleet status update for September 2012. Songa Venus achieved an operating efficiency of 98% during the month. The rig continues to operate for Petronas Carigali in Malaysia. Songa Mercur continued its operational preparations in Trinidad during the month and is scheduled to mobilize for […]

  • Keel Laying Ceremony for Future USS Montgomery

    26 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Navy and Austal USA held a keel laying ceremony for the future USS Montgomery, the Navy’s eighth littoral combat ship (LCS), June 25, in Mobile, Ala. The keel-laying ceremony recognizes the first joining together of a ship’s components. While modern shipbuilding processes allow fabrication of individual modules to begin months earlier, keel laying represents […]

  • Video: MSC Armonia Rams into a Dock in Honduras

    11 April 2018

    MSC Armonia, a 2001-built cruise ship owned by MSC Cruises, crashed into a dock in the port of Roatan in Honduras.

  • Songa Offshore Provides July Fleet Update (Norway)

    10 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    An international offshore drilling company, Songa Offshore, today released the fleet update for the month of July. Songa Venus achieved an operating efficiency of 100% during the month. The rig continues to operate for Petronas Carigali in Malaysia. Petronas exercised the 1 year optional contract during the month securing continued work for the rig in […]

  • Global Ports Holding Vying for Puerto Rico Cruise Port

    22 August 2019

    The company has secured two cruise port concessions in America so far this year.

  • Net Income Drops for Carnival, Despite Rise in Revenues

    20 June 2019

    Carnival’s growth “hampered by a confluence of events”, according to the CEO.

  • US East Coast Ports Brace for Hurricane Matthew

    5 October 2016

    The US Coast Guard has set port condition X-Ray for a number of ports in Florida and port condition Whiskey for one South Carolina’s port in response to Hurricane Matthew, which is currently located in the Caribbean sea and moving towards the US East Coast. Effective October 4, 2016, the USCG set port condition X-Ray for Port […]

  • MSC Cruises Invests in Private Bahamian Island

    18 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    MSC Cruises, the Geneva-based global cruise line, has unveiled plans to develop marine reserve island in the Bahamas. The project was officially launched on December 16 in the Bahamian capital Nassau, where Prime Minister Perry Christie and MSC Cruises Executive Chairman Pierfrancesco Vago signed a 100-year lease agreement that will enable MSC Cruises to occupy and […]

  • Rex exits offshore Australia block

    20 October 2015

    Rex Bonaparte Gulf oil company has reached a settlement with MEO Australia to withdraw from the jointly held license offshore Australia. The company, a subsidiary of Singapore-listed Rex International Holding, holds a 30% stake in the WA-488-P, with MEO holding the remaining 70%. Following the settlement, MEO will own a 100% share in the block. Rex […]

  • Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel for Boxships?

    17 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The low demand on the high volume trade lanes is surely increasing the pressure on earnings which is already felt in the container shipping industry,  BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand shared with the participants at the Maritime Cyprus 2015 Conference in Limassol, Cyprus on the 13-16 September 2015. As shipping is a derived demand of global […]

  • USCG Recovers Body of Missing Berkay N Crew Member

    4 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The United States Coast Guard rescue crews located and recovered the body of a missing crew member from the 275-foot Chilean-flagged cargo vessel Berkay N Saturday, approximately 25 nautical miles north of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. The death and circumstances that caused Luis Leyva Aliaga, 62, a Chilean national and First Engineer aboard the Berkay N, to […]