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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Besiktas Shipyard Bags Five

    18 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Besiktas Workboats, a new division of Besiktas Shipyard, has won orders to build three TB1505 design tugs for Turkish operator STFA and two for a Libyan company. With an overall length of 15m, beam of 5.8m and draft of 1.8m, the three STFA twin screw tugboats will have a pair of VOLVO D13 main engines coupled […]

  • Technip hires Farstad newbuild

    23 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Farstad Shipping ASA has signed a Letter of Intent with Technip regarding utilization of the subsea vessel Far tbn Sleipner (2015, Vard 3 07) which is under construction at Vard Langsten. The agreement secures the subsea vessel a utilization of 11 months, divided into two fixed periods. Including mobilization and demobilization, Technip can use the […]

  • 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 […]

  • MMT hires ‘Stril Explorer’

    5 March 2014

    MMT has signed a long term charter contract for M/V Stril Explorer vessel, operated by Simon Mökster Shipping AS.

  • Chengxi Shipyard wins order for self-unloading clean fuel-ready bulker duo

    4 September 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Danish sustainable aggregates supplier Mibau-Stema has tapped Chengxi Shipyard, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), for the construction of a pair of self-unloading, alternative fuel-ready bulk carriers. According to Greek shipbroker Intermodal’s latest report, Mibau-Stema, which is part of Germany-headquartered building materials company Heidelberg Materials, has placed a booking for two 43,500 dwt […]

  • DOF signs three new contracts for its vessels

    13 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Norwegian owner of offshore support vessel DOF has been awarded contracts for three of its vessels. The company today said that the contracts were secured by its subsidiaries DOF Rederi AS and Waveney AS. Under the contract, the Skandi Fjord construction support vessel, has been hired by Saipem America Inc. Saipem has chartered the 1983-built […]

  • Maersk, MSC and other liner majors suspend Red Sea runs amid escalating attacks

    18 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Leading liner companies, including industry giants Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, HMM, and OOCL, have suspended trading on their Red Sea trade routes. This decision comes in response to a series of targeted attacks on merchant ships operating in the region, raising alarms within the global shipping community. The Red Sea, a critical maritime route connecting […]

  • UK: Falmouth’s Test Site Gets First Wave Energy Device

    12 April 2012

    The team behind FaB Test, Cornwall’s pioneering marine energy test site in Falmouth, has welcomed the first wave device to be installed in its waters. Fred Olsen’s BOLT “Lifesaver” wave energy converter, which is ultimately capable of producing clean and efficient electricity, is now being tested in the sheltered waters off FalmouthBay, with easy access […]

  • Aker Solutions on Track to Deliver First Johan Sverdrup Draft Report

    26 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Aker Solutions has assembled one of its biggest engineering teams ever to deliver the initial plans for the engineering and design phase of the giant North Sea Johan Sverdrup oil deposit. The company is on track to deliver the first draft report due in the fourth quarter, a project that has involved 400 employees in […]

  • Converting Platform Supply Vessels Into Dredgers

    24 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    By David Pitt, Naval Architect at Offshore Ship Designers In the wake of the well-documented downturn in the oil and gas markets in recent years, an increasing number of platform supply vessels (PSVs) are currently under-utilized or languishing in lay-up, most notably in the US Gulf Coast region. Various proposals have been made for the repurposing of […]

  • Korea’s gas player taps Singapore’s Trafigura for LNG offtake

    26 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Trafigura, a Singapore-headquartered commodities group, has secured a multi-year deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), the Republic of Korea’s national gas company, said to be one of the world’s largest importers of LNG.

  • Call for more action on UK’s net-zero skills strategy to avoid oil & gas workers being left stranded

    12 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The Energy Institute has revealed that the UK’s net-zero strategy must assemble a mass skilled workforce, but action is pressing.

  • Bergeron: CII metrics are not fit for purpose

    6 October 2022
    Authorities & Government, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The IMO’s regulation on the carbon intensity indicator (CII) that enters into force in 2023 has come under a lot of fire in the shipping industry as a regulation that could punish owners with poor vessel ratings on the grounds of factors that they cannot influence upon. The CII is aimed at supporting the International Maritime […]

  • US spurs zest far beyond its borders for CCUS as ‘critical’ decarbonisation tool

    4 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) has become a valuable decarbonisation tool, making further inroads thanks to the IRA.