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  • USA: Bishop, Schumer Announce New Coastal Protection Plan

    30 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced a new plan that will allow the construction of storm protection dunes at Smith Point County Park and Robert Moses State Park to begin in early 2014, as originally scheduled. Schumer and Bishop brokered a deal between federal and state agencies that will break the […]

  • M/Y Dorothea burns, sinks; crew rescued unharmed

    29 November 2007

    The 40-year-old classic wooden megayacht Dorothea was consumed by fire in late October about 220 miles off Costa Rica and sank. All of her five crew members were rescued and were unharmed.

  • In Case of Emergency

    21 March 2014

    Late at night on 29 December 2013 a fire broke out in a cabin aboard MS King Seaways, a DFDS Seaways ferry traveling from Newcastle, United Kingdom, to IJmuiden, the Netherlands. RAF helicopters were scrambled to the vessel along with two lifeboats to transport four crew members and two passengers who required immediate attention. A […]

  • USCG Detains Car Carrier in Tacoma

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Coast Guard detained the 1994-built car carrier Pegasus Highway in the Port of Tacoma on Wednesday, September 9, citing safety deficiencies as the cause. A Port State Control exam team from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound conducted a routine Port State and International Ship and Port Facility Security exam aboard the 590-foot, Panamanian-flagged Ro/Ro. While aboard, […]

  • USCG Detains Car Carrier in Tacoma

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Coast Guard detained the 1994-built car carrier Pegasus Highway in the Port of Tacoma on Wednesday, September 9, citing safety deficiencies as the cause. A Port State Control exam team from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound conducted a routine Port State and International Ship and Port Facility Security exam aboard the 590-foot, Panamanian-flagged Ro/Ro. While aboard, […]

  • Canadian player acquires acreage in Namibia’s exploration hotspot

    11 September 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Canada’s Stamper Oil & Gas has completed the acquisition of fellow Canadian firm BISP Exploration, which enabled it to get the latter’s interests in blocks offshore Namibia.

  • Another Chinese player turns to Wärtsilä: Operational reliability boost on the horizon for 14 LNG vessels

    30 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Wärtsilä has secured a multi-year lifecycle agreement for 14 liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with Hong Kong-based OPearl LNG Ship Management, a joint venture between China Merchant LNG, CNOOC, and NYK, which was created to serve as the ship management arm for all three shareholders.

  • Seattle fireboat fleet improving

    27 July 2006

    When smoke filled the pilot’s cabins of the two Seattle fireboats fighting a pier fire on Lake Union earlier this month, firefighters donned oxygen masks so they could breathe. On the deck of one fireboat, the 80-year-old Alki, crew members twisted large, bright-red wheels by hand to aim water cannons at the flames. The technology […]

  • SOCAR Kills Burning Well after Two Months (Azerbaijan)

    25 October 2013

    Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company SOCAR, has extinguished the burning well at the Bulla Deniz field in the Caspian sea. The well, which was on fire since August 17, was killed Wednesday, October 23, SOCAR said in a statement. Halliburton’s subsidiary, Boots & Coots, a pressure control company, helped with the operation. To remind, the fire broke out […]

  • Explosion Rocks Chemical Tanker off Hong Kong, One Dead

    8 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    One seafarer lost his life, three crew missing following an explosion on a chemical tanker off Hong Kong.

  • PSA Inspects NAD’s Management of West Alpha Systems

    18 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    During the period 29 October – 2 November 2012, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of North Atlantic Drilling’s (NAD’s) management of major accident risk and barrier handling system on West Alpha. The objective of the activity was to evaluate the company’s understanding, knowledge and expertise related to major accident risk […]

  • Statoil Stops Production at Hammerfest LNG (Norway)

    13 January 2012

    On Wednesday afternoon, Statoil temporarily shut down production at its LNG plant at Melkøya outside Hammerfest following rupture of a fire water line. The fire water unit is part of the plant’s safety system, and Statoil implemented a controlled production shut down. A water leakage at the rupture site has excavated some of the soil […]

  • Report: Tanker’s Crew Member Dies of Major Burns

    18 January 2018

    One crew member from the fire-stricken tanker Genessa has lost his life due to major burns.

  • Slow progress made on repairing disabled Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica

    18 February 2007

    Repair crews on Monday fired up generators and switched on the lights aboard a Japanese whaling ship for the first time since a deadly fire rendered it powerless and adrift near the Antarctic coast four days earlier. As work continued to get the ship out of trouble under its own steam, New Zealand’s leader warned […]

  • Containers Fall into Oakland Estuary

    18 November 2014

    The U.S. Coast Guard and San Francisco fire department personnel enforced a safety zone for containers that fell in the water from the motor vessel NYK Aquarius while offloading cargo at SSA Facility Berth 57 in the Oakland estuary late Saturday, November 15. At approximately 8:30 p.m. local time, Coast Guard Sector San Francisco watchstanders […]

  • PSA Norway Identifies Regulatory Nonconformities During West Elara Audit

    4 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    The PSA conducted an audit from 10 to 12 May 2011 focusing on issues relating to technical safety, safety systems and maintenance management on board the facility West Elara. Background West Elara is a new jack-up, N-class drilling facility built by the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The PSA’s activity was conducted as part of the […]

  • NYK Tests STS Connection for Navigation Support Tool

    26 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    NYK and MTI have successfully tested a ship-to-shore connection for the ship navigation support tool J-Marine NeCST.

  • UN WFP Supply Ship Attacked off Hodeidah

    6 June 2018

    A vessel operating as part of the UN’s World Food Programme has been attacked in the Southern Red Sea.

  • Norway: Autronica Stresses Importance of Gas Detection on Dual Fuel LNG Vessels

    5 June 2013
    Vessels

    With the number of vessels using dual fuel/LNG propulsion systems growing steadily, Autronica Fire and Security is focusing on the importance of gas detection in this sector during Nor-Shipping 2013. LNG as a fuel can provide lower bunkering costs and emissions, in addition to less wear on engines, however, LNG propulsion systems must be monitored […]

  • Shreyas Begins SSL Kolkata Counter Pollution, Salvage Ops

    13 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Shreyas: Counter pollution and salvage works for the fire-stricken merchant vessel SSL Kolkata have started.

  • Pirates Attack Cable Layer in Red Sea

    25 July 2016

    Pirates have attacked a cable laying vessel during operations in the Red Sea on Friday, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) informed. Sixteen pirates in two skiffs armed with AK47 and an RPG reportedly approached and fired upon a cable laying vessel. The master of the vessel activated ship security alert system (SSAS) and raised the […]

  • Tongfang Jiangxin wins batch tugboat construction project contract

    10 August 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    In the bidding for the batch tugboat construction project of Sinopec Shengli Oilfield Branch, Tongfang Jiangxin Shipbuilding won the 2023 Shengli Oilfield Offshore Oil Ship Center 4 A 5000 HP full-turn tugboat construction project contract. According to the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry, this is one of the large ship operation orders of […]

  • Update: Norman Atlantic’s Death Toll Rises to 12

    4 February 2015

    Italian authorities have found another charred body  on board the fire-stricken Norman Atlantic ferry, the Hellenic Coast Guard informed. The body was found on a truck cabin on deck four.  Italian authorities have transferred the body to the Forensic Medicine Institute in Bari, where identification activities are ongoing. The latest discovery brings the death toll to 12 people, with 18 people […]

  • Year-long outage of Hammerfest LNG plant to affect Neptune output

    27 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance

    Neptune Energy expects its full-year production to be impacted by the closure of the Equinor-operated Hammerfest LNG plant following a recent fire incident.

  • Two Cargo Vessels Sink Off Philippines

    19 January 2017

    Two cargo vessels have sunk offshore Philippines in two separate accidents on January 17, 2017. A cargo vessel M/V Meridian Tres sank in the vicinity of Sto Niño Dive Site, Boho, with 29 people onboard, Philippine Coast Guard informed. The Coast Guard immediately conducted search and rescue operation together with several other search and rescue vessels. A total […]