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  • Algoma fined for dumping wastewater

    16 April 2021

    Canadian shipping company Algoma Central Corporation was fined $500,000 after pleading guilty to dumping wastewater into Lake Ontario. The U.S. Department of Justice said that one of the vessels in the company’s fleet, the M/V Algoma Strongfield, was involved in the discharge of unprocessed oily bilge waste from the ship’s wash water tanks in the […]

  • N’Goma FPSO officially on hire

    15 January 2015

    SBM Offshore has received formal Production Readiness Notice (PRN) for N’Goma FPSO from client Eni, operator of Block 15/06, offshore Angola. Following first oil in November 2014 and completion of the 72 hour continuous production test in early December 2014, PRN goes into effect retroactively to November 28, 2014 and the vessel is on hire from that […]

  • Glacier Energy is hiring (UK)

    29 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    As the oilfield services companies across the world have been forced to lay off workers due to oil majors cutting capital investments amid falling oil prices, any news on new job openings in the sector is welcome. Glacier Energy Services has said it needs workforce for its heat exchanger business based across its workshop and […]

  • Shipping firm in new first

    27 August 2010

    A Danish shipping firm is to become the first non-Russian enterprise to sail through the North East Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. M/V Nordic Barents, which is leased from Nordic Bulk Carriers, yesterday left Rotterdam in Holland for Kirkenes in Norway, where it will be loaded with 41,000 tonnes of iron ore […]

  • Petrobras Hires ‘Skandi Fluminense’

    20 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    DOF’s subsidiary Norskan has been awarded two new 4 years contracts from Petrobras for the AHTS vessels Skandi Fluminense and Skandi Rio.   The contracts will start in direct continuation after finalization of the previous contracts with Petrobras, in 1st quarter and in 2nd half 2014 respectively. DOF Subsea Brazil will operate the ROV’s on both vessels. The value […]

  • DOF Hires ‘Polar King’

    8 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    GC Rieber Shipping has scored a charter deal with DOF Subsea Norway for one of its subsea vessels. The 111 meters long CSV Polar King will start its work for DOF in April, for a fixed period of 100 days. According to GC Rieber, DOF has the option to extend the charter contract for five […]

  • Shipyard Kooiman Delivers Push Boat for Reliable Nonstop Operation

    23 April 2012

    At Shipyard Kooiman, a new 40 metre push boat named Veerhaven III Waterbuffel was christened on 20 March 2012. The Zwijndrecht-based shipyard has previously built two push boats for the same ship owner Veerhaven, a subsidiary of the German ThyssenKrupp Group. The fleet of push boats and barges, filled with coal or iron ore, transport […]

  • Floating regas solution gains ground: ECOnnect scores double pre-FEED win on LNG import projects

    24 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders

    Norway’s technology company ECOnnect Energy has picked up two preliminary front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) deals for its modular regasification (regas) solution, said to be designed for faster delivery and be more cost-efficient than traditional floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs or new onshore terminals. 

  • EnergyQuest: What’s in store for Australia’s gas industry?

    9 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Transition

    EnergyQuest has provided its take on Australia’s gas outlook, shedding more light on what awaits the country in the future.

  • SMM Exhibitors to Present New Defence Technologies for Naval Ships (Germany)

    22 August 2012

    The maritime environment has changed significantly in recent years, due to piracy and terrorism, climate change and environmental protection, and the offshore sector. Global trading of goods continues to grow, and 90% of it is carried by sea, so security of the overall global maritime logistic chains is at the focus of attention. The means […]

  • Talley’s Fined for Crewman’s Death

    29 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    A court in New Zealand fined Motueka-based agribusiness company Talley’s Group Ltd with NZD 48,000 (USD 37,000) and ordered the company to pay NZD 35,000 in reparation to the family of a crewman killed after falling nearly 7 meters on the tuna fishing vessel Capt MJ Souza in Nelson in May 2012, Maritime New Zealand reports.   The company […]

  • Bulk Invest to File for Bankruptcy

    3 March 2016

    Struggling Norwegian dry bulk company Bulk Invest ASA (formerly Western Bulk) will immediately file a petition for bankruptcy having been unable to reach a deal on restructuring with its creditors, the company said. In addition, the board of directors of the company’s subsidiary Bulk Shipowning IV AS has reached the same decision, whereas the respective boards […]

  • Germany: Windreich Files for Insolvency

    10 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    German wind energy developer, Windreich AG, filed for insolvency last week while the company’s CEO Willi Balz submitted his resignation yesterday. Werner Heer has assumed the role of the new CEO. With this step, Windreich tightened the course for the rehabilitation of the company. In cooperation with the previous management, Heer will focus in particular […]

  • Lundin Hires ‘Viking Queen’

    23 January 2014

    Lundin Petroleum has hired the ‘Viking Queen’ Platform Supply Vessel from the Norwegian offshore vessels owner Eidesvik for an undisclosed fee. The contract for the PSV Viking Queen is for 15 wells with options for 5 more wells. Duration for the firm period is minimum 900 days. The contract will begin in late 2014. “We are very pleased that […]

  • OW Bunker Files for Bankruptcy

    9 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Danish marine fuel supplier OW Bunker has not been able to find a sustainable solution regarding in-court restructuring procedures in the subsidiaries O.W. Bunker & Trading A/S and O.W. Supply & Trading A/S, and as a consequence, the company and its subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy.  The probate court in Aalborg has already issued a bankruptcy order […]

  • Noryards Fosen files for bankruptcy

    15 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Noryards Fosen AS has decided to petition for bankruptcy to the Fosen District Court. The company said on Thursday that the petition for bankruptcy would be delivered to the Fosen District Court “as soon as possible”. Explaining the reason for the bankruptcy petition, the company says that it all started with a cancellation on an order […]

  • Scorpio Orders Five VLCCs

    17 December 2013

    Scorpio Tankers Inc. and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) have entered into a contract for the construction of five Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs). According to DSME, the deal was signed on December 13th with a contract value of circa $474 million. These highly-efficient vessels will have the length of 336m, breadth of 60m, with the […]

  • Shipping firms in tie-up

    30 May 2005

    HANJIN Shipping Company, Senator Lines and United Arab Shipping will upgrade their Europe-Middle East-Asia service jointly with Mitsui OSK Lines from August-end.

  • Daiichi Chuo Files for Bankruptcy

    29 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Japanese dry bulk shipping company Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha and its wholly-owned subsidiary Star Bulk Carrier Co. SA have filed for bankruptcy at Tokyo District Court, the company said on Tuesday. The company’s shares stopped trading on Tuesday morning amid media reports on its intention to file for bankruptcy, which was followed by Daichii Chuo’s confirmation saying that its board of directors had […]

  • PetroCan fined for oil spill

    4 May 2006

    Petro-Canada has been fined a record $290,000 for spilling 1,000 barrels of oil off Newfoundland’s east coast almost 18 months ago. Glum senior company officials stood in provincial court this week as a judge accepted their guilty plea and admission of responsibility for the Nov. 20, 2004, spill at its Terra Nova oil field.

  • Norfolk firm secures deal

    7 June 2006

    A pump manufacturer based in Norway has, with the support from LSE, won the order for the water injection pumps for a floating production, storage and offloading facility, (FPSO), destined for operation in offshore Western Australia. Laurence Scott will be manufacturing the three motors required for the project.

  • VOR: Brunel makes five

    22 May 2006

    After a tough leg that saw them destroy their headsail tack fitting, rip their mainsail, rip one wheel from the pedestal among many other serious problems, Brunel with Skipper Matt Humphries in charge crossed the finish like at Gilkicker point close to Portsmouth at 1016GMT and 32 seconds.

  • Foreign fishing vessel fined

    2 March 2006

    THE registrar of a foreign fishing vessel places strong disciplinary action against its vessels, which breach licence. The comment comes from the directors of the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize.

  • OCTRA Hired for Floatgen Works

    5 October 2016

    French transport engineering company, OCTRA, has been contracted to supply the construction barges as well as associated equipment and skilled staff for the first building phase of the Floatgen project. The company will also work on the full float out of the 5,000-tonne caisson. OCTRA is supporting the Floatgen project together with her sister company Coordinadora and […]

  • Svitzer Firms Presence in the Caribbean

    5 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Towage specialist Svitzer has inked a 2.5 year contract to offer marine services at the NuStar terminal in St. Eustatius, the Caribbean starting 4th February 2016. Among the marine services that Svitzer will be providing are berthing and un-berthing of tankers for the terminal, as well as bunkering. Under the deal, Svitzer will take over the operation […]