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  • ClassNK updates guidelines for gas fueled ships

    6 January 2015

    ClassNK released the third version of its Guidelines for Gas Fueled Ships.

  • Boaters Rescued After Hitting Dredge Pipe Near Ravenel Bridge

    10 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Three boaters were rescued on Sunday after their vessel struck a dredge pipe in the Cooper River near the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, reports the U.S. Coast Guard. According to the USCG, after receiving the notification call, the Coast Guard Station Charleston launched a 29-foot Response Boat–Small boatcrew and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew in the area diverted […]

  • Update: Greek Coast Guard Rescues Crew of Beached Bulker

    12 February 2015

    The Hellenic Coast Guard safely evacuated all 22 crew members of the bulk carrier Goodfaith that grounded yesterday on the northern shore of the Greek island Andros, the Aegean Sea. 18 crewmen were airlifted, while the local fire department coordinated the land rescue of the remaining four. The three tugs sent from Piraeus to aid the stranded […]

  • Chinese energy heavyweight flips the production switch on at oil project

    28 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant CNOOC has put an oilfield development project in production mode in the South China Sea.

  • Minesto taps MCT Brattberg for subsea cable protection

    23 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology

    Swedish tidal energy developer Minesto has selected MCT Brattberg’s RGPM sealing systems for its tidal kite technology, designed to convert ocean currents into electricity. MCT Brattberg’s cable and pipe transit systems are said to be engineered to resist water, fire, and gas intrusion – critical protection for subsea equipment in harsh marine environments.  MCT Brattberg […]

  • Damen Shipyards Presents AHTS 200 Design at SMM

    4 September 2012

    Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards has, at the SMM 2012 in Hamburg, presented its new Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel design, the AHTS 200. The anchor handler, a 200 ton bollard pull vessel, is one of several designs presented by Damen at one of the biggest maritime industry events in the world, the SMM 2012. It […]

  • Fuel Oil Spills from Bulker in New Orleans

    5 September 2017

    Maltese-flagged bulk carrier M/V Vitahorizon has been involved in a fuel oil spill during bunkering operations while anchored at New Orleans area, Louisiana. Namely, on September 4, the Plaquemines Parish 911 Center received a report of a discharge of high sulfur fuel oil into the Mississippi River IVO lower 12 Mile Point Anchorage, Mississippi, New Orleans area, […]

  • Update: Three Workers Succumb to Injuries from Bangladesh Yard Blast

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Three workers out of eight who were injured in a blast on Sunday at a shipbreaking yard, owned by Shital Enterprise, located in the Chittagong district of Bangladesh, have died having succumbed to their severe injuries. The information has been confirmed to World Maritime News by NGO Shipbreaking Platform, which is in contact with the organization’s local colleagues […]

  • Chemical Tanker Minerva Virgo Attacked off Benin

    6 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Chemical tanker MT Minerva Virgo was boarded by a group of pirates.

  • Siem Offshore Orders PSV (Norway)

    30 October 2012

    Norway’s Siem offshore has ordered a Platform Supply Vessel, with an option for one additional vessel, from Hellesoy yard in Norway. The dual fuel vessel, once delivered, will start a four-year contract, with four one-year options, with Total E&P Norge AS. The contract with the subsidiary of French supermajor Total, is expected to start between […]

  • Russia: Vyborg Shipyard Rolls Out First Block of Project 21900M

    6 March 2013

    First block of the first from the three Icebreakers of project 21900 M, being presently under construction at Vyborg Shipyard, is placed on open building berth. “Main yard capacities are focused now on construction of semi-submersible barge which is intended for hull assembly of icebreakers and other vessels with wide beam. However, all works for […]

  • NYK charters two LNG newbuilds

    14 May 2015
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) said it has concluded a basic agreement on a time-charter contract for two new liquefied natural gas carriers with Diamond Gas International, a unit of Mitsubishi Corporation.

  • MHI christens JERA’s fourth Sayaringo STaGE vessel, Noshu Maru

    11 January 2019
    Vessels

    Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries unit, christened the Noshu Maru, a Sayaringo STaGE LNG carrier built for the JERA and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines joint venture Trans Pacific Shipping. 

  • Tohoku Electric’s LNG consumption up in FY2015

    27 April 2016

    Tohoku Electric of Japan informed on Tuesday its LNG consumption for the Fiscal Year 2015 ending March 31, 2016, reached 4.32 million tons.

  • FSRU Golar Freeze to arrive off Jamaica soon

    5 November 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Nasdaq-listed Golar LNG Partners, a limited partnership formed by Golar LNG, said Monday that its floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Golar Freeze is expected to “shortly arrive” offshore Jamaica. The 125,000-cbm FSRU Golar Freeze will serve a 15-year charter for New Fortress Energy as an import facility supplying new gas-fired power plants. Golar Freeze was previously […]

  • NYK charters two LNG newbuilds

    14 May 2015
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) said it has concluded a basic agreement on a time-charter contract for two new liquefied natural gas carriers with Diamond Gas International, a unit of Mitsubishi Corporation.

  • ACWA Power commits to 3.6 GW LNG-based power plant in Bangladesh

    23 October 2019

    Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) for an LNG-based power plant and terminal in Bangladesh.

  • Ørsted and Deutsche WindGuard join hands for offshore wind technician training

    10 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    Deutsche WindGuard and Ørsted have kicked off their cooperation to together provide GWO training for offshore wind technicians. The training starts this week at the safety training center in Norddeich, north Germany. For Deutsche WindGuard this is the second training center in addition to the one in Elsfleth, Wesermarsch.  According to the company, the site is ideal […]

  • India: Three More Armament Shells Discovered at Mormugao Port

    24 February 2012

    Another three armament shells were discovered in the mud lodged inside the dredger undergoing repair work at Western India Shipyard Ltd dock at Mormugao port after four workers were injured in an explosion reported on Wednesday. An investigation is being conducted and the shells have been sent to the naval armament depot in Dabolim. S […]

  • Gallery: Otto Offshore’s first PSV launched in China

    11 December 2015

    ‘Go Michigan’, the first of four platform supply vessels for Singapore-based offshore services provider Otto Offshore, was launched on December 10, 2015, at Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry in China. Go Michigan has an overall length of 83.4 metres, a beam of 18 metres and a load capacity of around 4,000 tonnes. All four vessels, based on […]

  • K Line Orders Bulker at Imabari Yard

    19 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    K Line orders a 100,000 dwt bulk carrier from compatriot Imabari Shipbuilding.

  • One Dead after Libya Military Attacks Turkish Freighter

    11 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    A ship officer died and several crew members were injured after a Turkish general cargo ship was shelled and attacked from the air near the Libyan port city of Tobruk on Sunday, Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. The Ministry has strongly condemned the attack on the vessel identified as the Cook Islands-flagged Tuna-1, which was […]

  • Blasts aboard Indonesian Tanker Leave One Dead, Three Missing

    19 August 2014

    Three people are missing and one died after three blasts ripped through Indonesian-flagged product tanker Java Bonitos while the ship was passing through the Bangka Strait, off southern Sumatra, the Java Sea on August 15th, local media report. The explosions are said to have originated from the tanker’s engine room resulting in a fire that spread […]

  • India Secures Loan to Upgrade Alang Recycling Yard

    18 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Government of India has signed a loan agreement worth USD 76 million for a project to upgrade the environment management plan at Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards. The total cost of the project will be USD 111 million, out of which USD 76 million will be provided as soft loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency […]

  • South Africa eyeing LNG import terminal

    8 September 2015

    South Africa’s power shortages could be nearing its end as the country is looking to build an LNG import facility at the west coast port of Saldanha Bay.