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  • Havyard Hired for Work on Celebrity Cruises’ Ships

    16 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Saint-Nazaire-based shipbuilder STX France has hired Polish Havyard Production & Service (HPR) to carry out electrical work in two out of seven zones in a series of cruise ships being built for Celebrity Cruises, a brand of Royal Caribbean Cruises. Under the contract related to the Edge series cruise ships, worth around NOK 80 million (USD 9.3 […]

  • Statoil Hires Gas4Sea for LNG Bunkering in Rotterdam

    10 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian oil major Statoil has selected Gas4Sea partners to be its liquefied natural gas (LNG) marine fuel supplier in the Dutch port of Rotterdam for four crude shuttle tankers. The four planned dual fuel vessels are scheduled to come into service in early 2020. They will be operated by Statoil in Northern European seas. Under the contract […]

  • Diana Shipping Secures Work for Five Bulkers

    12 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Athens-based dry bulk vessel owner Diana Shipping has secured charter deals for five of its dry bulk carriers with a number of companies. The company said that the vessels in question are the 2010-built Myrsini, the 2013-built Electra, the 2010-built Alcmene, and Oceanis and Triton, both built in 2001. Namely, the shipping firm has agreed to extend the present time charter contract with […]

  • Teekay Firms Shuttle Tanker Order at SHI

    25 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has sealed the order for two Suezmax-size DP2 shuttle tankers with Teekay Offshore Partners (TOO). The shipbuilder said today in an exchange filing that it has signed a sales and supply contract with Teekay for the tanker pair. The contract, worth KRW 309.2 billion (USD 274 million), contains options for […]

  • Five Crew Badly Injured in Bulker Explosion

    6 November 2014

    Five crew members were seriously injured in a crankcase explosion that occurred on board the Chinese-flagged bulker Tian Xiang 69 on Tuesday morning, November 4, Weihai News reports. The explosion occurred while the vessel was sailing 50 nautical miles southeast off Weihai. The crew has been evacuated by a helicopter to a nearby hospital with […]

  • Germany: P+S WERFTEN Files for Insolvency

    30 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    In past few days P+S WERFTEN has been involved in intensive discussions with the representatives of the German Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the German Federal Government, and with its customers, suppliers, employees, the trade union IG Metall Küste and with banks to find a way towards an economic future for P+S WERFTEN. Rüdiger […]

  • Thai Oil Hires NYK’s VLCC Tateyama

    11 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    NYK and an affiliate of Thai Oil Public Co. Ltd. (Thai Oil) have agreed to terms on a long-term contract for the charter of the very large crude-oil carrier (VLCC) Tateyama (built: 2002; DWT: about 300,000 tonnes) to shuttle oil primarily from the Arabian Sea to Thailand. The contract, which is for at least three […]

  • Petrobras Cancels Negotiations for Five Drilling Rigs

    30 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Petrobras has cancelled the process of contracting five drilling rigs, capable of drilling in up to 3,000 meters of water, with the Ocean Rig Group. This decision is based on the reduction of future needs for drilling, due to a fewer number of wells expected to be drilled in the pre-salt Santos Basin, relating to […]

  • China: CIC Orders Five More Containerships

    26 July 2013

    China International Marine Containers’ (CIMC) shipowning subsidiary, CIMC Financial Leasing ordered five 8,800 TEU newbuildings worth $425m from Jiangsu New Times Shipbuilding on July 24. The delivery of the vessels is scheduled for 2015. The order is placed under the conditions similar to the previous CIMC’s order placed in June this year. For these, as […]

  • BP Agrees to Pay Record Environmental Fine

    2 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Five years on from the Deepwater Horizon accident and spill in 2010 that took 11 lives, oil major BP has reached agreements in principle to settle all federal and state claims arising from the event by paying the largest environmental fine in the US history, worth USD 18.7 billion. BP today announced that its US Upstream […]

  • Dredging NZ Fined over Worker Death

    22 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Dredging NZ has been fined $79,500 and ordered to pay $42,000 in reparation after the death of a worker, crushed on a dredging barge in West Park Marina, Auckland, on 19 November 2013. Peter Bateman died after being crushed between an excavator and the wall of a hopper, on a barge being skippered by Brent […]

  • Lithuanian Shipping Company Denies Filing for Insolvency

    10 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Klaipeda-headquartered bulker owner and operator Lithuanian Shipping Company (Lietuvos Juru Laivininkyste) has denied filing for insolvency. The speculation started after local media quoted Lithuania’s Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevicius as saying that this state-owned company ”should go bankrupt.” The company should file for bankruptcy as a way to stop accumulating losses, Sinkevicius said, adding that the situation in […]

  • Noble to Pay USD 8.2 Mln in Fines

    10 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation said on Monday that it had reached a final settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), concluding a two-year investigation into the company’s operations and systems aboard the drillship Noble Discoverer. The settlement agreement also covers certain record keeping issues related to the Kulluk drilling rig, which was previously […]

  • Crossworld Recognized as Philippines Top Manning Firm

    12 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III named Crossworld Marine Services, Inc. as one of the country’s top performing manning and recruitment firms. Crossworld along with 17 other manning agencies received recognitions and awards for excellence in the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) handed out by the President himself in an event held in […]

  • CNOOC Congo Hires Drillship ‘Jasper Explorer’

    24 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Jasper Invests announced that its subsidiary, Jasper Drilling Pte Ltd, on 21st January 2013 signed a contract with CNOOC Congo SA for the deployment of the drillship, Jasper Explorer. Under the contract, the Jasper Explorer will drill two firm wells plus one option well in offshore Republic of Congo, West Africa. The program duration for […]

  • SwissMarine Hires One More from Diana

    9 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Greek dry bulker owner Diana Shipping Inc. has entered into a time charter contract with Geneva-based SwissMarine Services S.A., Geneva, for one of its Capesize dry bulk vessels, the MV Semirio. The gross charter rate is USD 4,800 per day, for a period of minimum eleven  to maximum fifteen months. The charter commenced on February 6, […]

  • Pirates Kidnap Five Tanker Crew Members

    2 February 2016

    The 2003-built tanker Leon Dias was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, UK-based Clearwater Vessel Tracking confirmed to World Maritime News. “A tanker was underway from Lome to Bata when the owners lost contact with their vessel, it was later discovered that pirates had managed to board and hijack the vessel, a militant group are […]

  • Outer Harbor Terminal Files for Bankruptcy Protection

    2 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Outer Harbor Terminal LLC, formerly known as Ports America Outer Harbor, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday under Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, just two weeks after it terminated its lease of a marine terminal at the port of Oakland. OHT said that it was leaving the port in March thus terminating […]

  • Firms line up for final CCS round

    2 July 2008

    Scottish Power has linked up with a clean energy subsidiary of Norway’s Aker Solutions to develop on a new CO2 sequestration plant in the UK. Aker Clean Carbon will act as technology provider within the consortia, which also includes Marathon Oil with Scottish Power, which is now part of Spain’s Iberdrola group, for the new […]

  • Super-yacht firm creates 800 jobs

    8 April 2008

    At least 800 jobs will be created when a US super-yacht builder opens its UK base in Hampshire, the South East England Development Agency said. Palmer Johnson will build a range of bespoke vessels 100m (329ft) in length in Hythe and Woolston in Southampton.

  • Gulf Craft launches five new models

    12 March 2008

    Gulf Craft Inc, the Middle East’s largest boat and yacht manufacturer, has revealed five new models at this year’s DIBS. The new additions include two new luxury yachts, the Majesty 77 and Majesty 121; the Silver Craft 37, the Silver Craft range representing Gulf Craft’s latest product line up; and the revolutionary Oryx 40 Fly […]

  • Indonesia awards oil contracts to five companies

    22 September 2006

    The Indonesian government Friday signed joint oil productions contracts worth 218 million U.S. dollars with five companies, according to local media reports. Petronas Carigali Overseas won the contract for offshore oil field in Lampung province, Husky Energy Int. got offshore field in East Java , Marathon International won the onshore and offshore fields in West […]

  • Lauderdale firm finds niche in customizing yachts

    11 November 2006

    When Gil Romano was in the market for a yacht, he envisioned exactly how it would look — from the Corian countertops to the hue of the veneer wall coverings to the style of furniture for his guests. The only problem: His dream boat wasn’t available straight out of the factory. So Romano, a Long […]

  • Ocean freight decline hits shipping firms

    16 January 2006

    Domestic shipping companies are headed for tough times, as ocean freight rates are plummeting on account of the Chinese slowdown and supply of more vessels than cargoes.

  • Shipbuilding firm sails very merrily along

    13 January 2006

    China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC), one of the nation’s top two shipbuilding groups, has revealed its record 2005 results and even stronger 2006 forecasts, boosted by thriving global demand for vessels.