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  • Dutch firm launches solar power solution for oceangoing vessels

    30 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Technology

    Following 18 months of developing and testing, the Netherlands-based maritime solar specialist Wattlab has launched its new solar power solution for oceangoing vessels, targeting reductions in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

  • Interview: Kidnappings for Ransom Easy and Less Risky

    11 May 2016

    In 2016, piracy has yet again emerged as one of the key problems seafarers face during their voyages at sea. A particular concern is the ever growing number of kidnappings for ransom against merchant vessels, which has significantly increased in areas off the Niger Delta, with at least 16 of the kidnapping victims so far […]

  • Wärtsilä systems picked for five 99,000 cbm VLEC newbuilds

    1 October 2024
    Equipment, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply cargo handling and fuel gas supply systems for five new very large ethane carriers (VLECs) being built in China.

  • Vallourec expands pipe coating services with acquisition of Brazillian firm

    17 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vision

    France’s tubular solutions provider Vallourec has entered into a definitive agreement with Mattr to acquire 100% of the shares in its subsidiary, Thermotite do Brasil, a provider of thermal insulation pipe coating services for the offshore oil and gas industry. Vallourec is acquiring Thermotite do Brasil for $17.5 million, with customary price adjustments including working […]

  • Ceremony Marks “WestPac Express’s” Five Year Anniversary With Marines

    30 October 2006

    Since its arrival in Okinawa on July 11, 2001 for a three month

  • Danaos Enters into Agreement to Acquire Five 2,200 TEU Containerships

    18 July 2007

    Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) today announced that it has signed contracts to acquire five 1997 built, 2,200 TEU containerships. These vessels, the H.Vladivostok, H.Advance, H. Stride, H. Future, and the H.Sprinter were built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. The size of the deal is slightly in excess of $150 million and the vessels are expected to […]

  • Teledata bags $1 million order from Chinese firm

    3 May 2005

    Teledata Informatics Limited, a global software solutions company, on Monday said it has bagged a contract worth $1 million from a Chinese shipping company for technology services. Under the agreement, Beijing-based Sinotrans Shipping will use Teledata’s Ship Manager software in its fleet of 34 vessels and in its onshore offices, said a company statement issued […]

  • $1bn Akpo Fpso: Italian, French Firms in Stiff Contest

    14 April 2005

    nch firm, Technip and Saipem of Italy, are known to be justling for the plum contract to build the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloding (FPSO) vessel for the huge Akpo deep offshore field. Indications emerged at the weekend that contracts for the FPSO construction might be awarded this week.

  • Shipping firm paid for negotiator to free crew kidnapped by pirates

    6 April 2005

    The president of a shipping company that recently had three crewmembers kidnapped by pirates in the Malacca Strait has said that his firm paid for a negotiator to rescue the three men. Kanji Kondo, president of Kondo Kaiji in Kitakyushu that owns the tugboat Idaten, talked with the Mainichi on Wednesday and said he hired […]

  • Malaysian shipping firm holding talks with Indian co. on JV

    31 August 2005

    A Malaysian shipping firm is holding talks with an Indian investor to set up a liquefied natural gas joint venture company and another for transportation of crude oil.

  • YS firm signs deal with Koreans to build RM74m tanker

    26 January 2006

    Kota Kinabalu: Yayasan Sabah (YS) Shipping Sdn Bhd and Gagasan Carriers Sdn Bhd sealed a deal with a Korean shipbuilding company to build a RM74 million chemical tanker here Wednesday in an effort to venture further into the chemical transportation industry.

  • SIX shipping firms form consortium to break A .P. Moller

    6 July 2006

    FOLLOWING the failure of A.P. Moller to decongest ports and bring about a seamless port operation, a group of six shipping companies have formed a consortium with a view to breaking the monopoly of A .P. Moller at the container terminal port . The group, which is made up of Alraine Nigeria Limited, Wasa, Hullblyte […]

  • Wind turbine tower firm creates 240 jobs in Chepstow

    29 January 2010

    A firm making towers for wind turbines is creating 240 jobs and investing £38m in its base in Monmouthshire. Mabey Bridge, which already employs 400 at Chepstow and also Gloucestershire, said the project would create hundreds of skilled and technical posts. The firm is part of the Mabey Group, a private family-owned group with a […]

  • Ship firm IPO nets 2.2b US dollar on outlook

    10 December 2009

    China Shipbuilding Industry Co raised 14.7 billion yuan (US$2.15 billion) in the country’s third-largest initial public offering this year. The country’s largest vessel equipment maker sold 1.995 million shares at 7.38 yuan each, the higher end of its price range, the company said in a statement to Shanghai Stock Exchange yesterday.

  • USA: Magnolia LNG Receives FERC Pre-Filing Approval

    22 March 2013

    Liquefied Natural Gas Limited announced that the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved Magnolia LNG, LLC’s request to commence the pre-filing review process, in relation it’s Magnolia LNG Project. The FERC approval follows Magnolia’s request for pre-filing, as announced on 14 March 2013. FERC is the lead federal agency in the preparation […]

  • Dutch Superyacht Builder Amels to Deliver Five Yachts This Spring

    4 April 2012

    Dutch superyacht builder Amels is defying the economic gloom with the busiest workload the company has ever known, with 12 new construction projects and two major refits underway. In the next few weeks, for example, two Amels 180 and one Amels 212 will be delivered, in addition to two extensive refits of existing Amels yachts. […]

  • APM Terminals Signs Agreement for Rubber Tire Gantry Equipment

    16 April 2008

    APM Terminals and Chinese‐based Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery (ZPMC) have concluded a Main Purchase Agreement for the future delivery of rubber‐tired gantry cranes for use at APM Terminals’ growing roster of container handling facilities around the world. The signing ceremony was held on April 16th at the ZPMC offices in Shanghai. The MPA establishes a […]

  • Russia: Rosneft Acquires Five New Blocks in Okhotsk Sea

    20 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      By order of the government of the Russian Federation Oil Company Rosneft has been granted five blocks on the Sea of Okhotsk shelf for geological surveying, exploration and development. The five blocks are Magadan-1, 2 and 3, Lisyansky and Kashevarovsky. According to Rosneft estimates, total recoverable resources at these deposits stand at over 1.1 […]

  • Dutch Salvage Firm to Refloat Grounded Tanker off India

    14 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    Dutch Marine Masters was selected to refloat Nu-Shi Nalini, which ran aground off Goa in late October.

  • Svenska hires Exceed for Guinea Bissau’s first deepwater well

    13 March 2019

    Swedish oil company Svenska Petroleum is getting ready to spud Guinea Bissau’s first ever deepwater offshore well.

  • DW: Decommissioning firms to benefit from oil price collapse

    1 February 2016

    The oil price collapse has been bad news for nearly every company involved in the industry, but one group that could actually benefit from it are specialist decommissioning companies, Douglas-Westwood, an energy intelligence group, has said in its DW Monday report.  According to Douglas-Westwood, for these companies there is an opportunity to be part of […]

  • Denmark: DONG Hires Maersk Resolve Rig for Hejre Development

    1 March 2012
    Business & Finance

     DONG Energy has contracted Maersk Drilling’s  jack-up rig Maersk Resolve for work on the Hejre field in the Danish North Sea. The expected duration of the five-well contract is approx 750 days and the contract also includes an option for two additional wells of estimated 280 days’ duration. The contract value for the firm 750-day […]

  • Petronas Hires Aban Offshore’s Jack-up Rig (Malaysia)

    9 October 2012

    India’s largest private drilling contractor, Aban Offshore, has received a letter of award from Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd for the Deep Driller 3 Jack-up rig. The oil company will charter the rig on a firm period of three years and will deploy it offshore Malaysia. The estimated value of the contract is USD 152.75 […]

  • Maersk Oil Hires Intertek for $3 Mln UK Work

    14 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Intertek, the global provider of quality and safety services, has secured work with Maersk Oil UK worth £3 million to provide offshore chemists and onshore laboratory analysis support. The three year contract has the option for two one year extensions and will see Intertek provide offshore chemists full time for three of the operator’s assets, […]

  • Maersk Oil Hires Rowan California Jack-Up (Qatar)

    22 February 2013

    Rowan Drilling has secured a new contract for its jack-up rig Rowan California in the Middle East. The drilling contractor revealed in its fleet status update for February that the rig will be hired by Maersk Oil. The Denmark-based oil company will use the rig for drilling operations offshore Qatar. The contract is scheduled to […]