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  • USGS: New Report Quantifies Coastal Change (USA)

    27 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Beaches and dunes on Fire Island, New York, lost more than half of their pre-storm volume during Hurricane Sandy, leaving the area more vulnerable to future storms. While the damage and destruction on Fire Island was immediately evident after the storm, a new U.S. Geological Survey study released today is the first to quantify the […]

  • Australia: PM Says Queensland to Build Two Gas Power Stations

    25 October 2011

    Queensland will build two new gas-fired power stations at Ipswich and Gladstone. (smh) [mappress] Source: smh, October 25, 2011;

  • Brazil : Nexans Completes Contract for SBM Offshore

    27 April 2010
    Equipment

    Nexans has completed a 3 million Euro contract for SBM Offshore (Single Buoy Moorings) to manufacture and supply the specialized offshore power, control and instrumentation cables for the conversion of the Espirito Santo FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) vessel serving the BC-10 deep water field development in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. Working under […]

  • Report: Pertamina Source of Balikpapan Bay Oil Spill

    5 April 2018

    Pertamina says burst underwater pipeline source of the oil spill in the Balikpapan Bay.

  • Top News of the Week, 13 – 19 November 2017

    19 November 2017
    Project & Tenders

    BiFab Crisis: Workers Rally at Scottish Parliament as Unions Urge SSE to ‘Rein In’ SHL The trade unions supporting BiFab workers have called on SSE to ‘rein in’ the contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) and save 1,400 jobs in Fife and Lewis. On 16 November, SSE issued a statement saying that, as a 15% shareholder […]

  • UK: New rules proposed for offshore flights

    30 April 2015

    The UK Civil Aviation Authority has released a new set of proposals aimed at improving the safety of helicopter operations to the 116 normally unattended offshore installations in the North Sea. The proposals released at the Offshore Helicopter Safety Action Group (OHSAG) build upon an independent report compiled by Cranfield University, commissioned by the CAA, aimed […]

  • Norway: DNV to Demonstrate Potential of Sesam SurveySimulator (VIDEO)

    7 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    DNV’s training simulator is designed to demonstrate thousands of potential vessel defects with real life accuracy, and it is now available on laptop with special training programmes developed to suit inspectors, seafarers and technical managers. The potential of Sesam SurveySimulator will be demonstrated in DNV’s 2013 Fire Safety Awareness Campaign. The Sesam SurveySimulator uses virtual […]

  • Hapag-Lloyd: Yantian Express Finally Leaves Freeport, to Arrive in Halifax Today

    20 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Fire-stricken containership Yantian Express finally sailed from Freeport on May 15.

  • New energy hub on the cards for Balkans as JERA and Montenegro delve into LNG terminal possibilities

    11 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Transition

    Japan’s energy major JERA has taken steps to augment its liquefied natural gas (LNG) arsenal by striking a deal with the government of Montenegro to look into the development of an LNG terminal and an associated gas-fired plant, which has the potential to establish a new energy hub in the Western Balkans, fortifying energy security not just in this country but also in Southeast Europe.

  • Pirates demand ransom for kidnapped Thai captain, crew

    2 June 2005

    Pirates have kidnapped a Thai captain and crewman from a tanker in the busy Malacca Strait. The head of the Piracy Reporting Centre of the London-based International Maritime Bureau, Noel Choong, says the pirates have already demanded a ransom. Mr Choong says the band of between five and eight pirates approached on a fast boat […]

  • Bulker collides with small tanker off Philippine coast

    17 August 2020
    Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Vessels

    A Panama-flagged bulk carrier collided with a Philippine-flagged tanker off Luzon Point, Mariveles, Bataan, on 15 August 2020, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said.

  • Boluda to continue providing sustainable towage services at Port of Zeebrugge

    18 September 2020
    Collaboration, Ports & Logistics

    Boluda Towage Europe has entered into a five-year concession agreement to provide sustainable towage services at the Port of Zeebrugge.

  • One Dead in LPG Tanker Explosion in Turkey

    3 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    The explosion occurred in the evening hours of June 1 due to an “unspecified” reasons.

  • VOR: Ericsson’s leg

    12 March 2006

    When a bolt of lightning set the Ericsson mast on fire last night Neal McDonald looked to the heavens and wondered,

  • Video: Pella-Built Project 16609 Tug Slips into the Water

    2 December 2013

    The regular tugboat of project 16609, building No 625 of the 2014 Acceptance Program, has been launched at Russian shipyard Pella. In the next year the tugboat will be delivered to the port Pertopavlovsk – Kamchatskiy and put into operation within Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation. The tugboat is intended for towing and berthing […]

  • BSEE assists with Lake Pontchartrain rig explosion investigation

    20 October 2017

    The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has been assisting the Jefferson Parrish authorities with the investigation of the recent Lake Pontchartrain oil and gas platform explosion and fire. The BSEE said on Thursday that the organization had received a request on Sunday for assistance with the explosion on a platform explosion in […]

  • 15 September 2006

    The Royal Navy is celebrating its biggest ever drugs bust in the Caribbean after stopping a boatload of cocaine worth up to half a billion pounds. The smugglers set fire to their boat and illegal cargo when they were caught in a dramatic night-time operation off the north-east coast of Barbados. While much of the […]

  • Liverpool blasts ABP bid to block cruise terminal

    28 September 2009

    LIVERPOOL has returned fire in the row over its plans to steal a slice of Southampton’s lucrative cruise industry – blasting the actions of city port owners as “diabolical”. Merseyside civic chiefs have slammed Southampton port owner Associated British Ports (ABP) for trying to block an upgrade of its £20m publicly-funded cruise terminal, claiming the […]

  • Zhenjiang Shipyard Delivers Crest Athena 1

    20 February 2014

    On 19th of February 2014, Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard handed over the third 78m Offshore Standby Support Vessel named Crest Athena 1,  to Singapore FEG Energy Co., Ltd. With a passenger volume of 200 people and a rescue capacity of 300 people, it features a total of 5320kw capacity and a DP-2 positioning system. It is […]

  • Video: P&O Ferry up in Flames

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    P&O Ferry’s Pride of Canterbury travelling across the English Channel (La Manche Channel) from Dover, England, to the French city of Calais caught fire at around 8 am British Summer Time (BST), September 29, according to the BBC. The fire started in the ferry’s engine room as the vessel was docking in the Port of Calais. All […]

  • Keppel Shipyard has been fined $30,000 for strict liability offence

    26 May 2006

    We refer to the announcement made by Keppel Shipyard Limited (Keppel Shipyard) on Thursday, 25 May 2006. The Company has today been fined $30,000 for strict liability offence. Yesterday, Keppel Shipyard pleaded guilty to a Charge under Section 42(a) of the Factories (Shipbuilding and Ship-Repair Regulations (Cap 104 Rg11)) arising from the fire on board […]

  • ‘This ain’t no foo foo ship’

    30 March 2006

    ABOARD THE POLYNESIA (AP) — The sails flap weakly as they climb the four huge masts. “Ride of the Valkyrie” blares from the speakers as a cannon booms, then fires again.

  • Contaminants removed from burned ship

    18 January 2006

    FAIRHAVEN — A contractor removed contaminants yesterday from the Amber Nicole, an 89-foot Fairhaven scalloper with $500,000 in fire damages.

  • Gallery: Firefighters to Flood Cargo Holds of Freighter Ablaze off Germany

    28 May 2015

    Four firefighters managed to board a general cargo ship Purple Beach that has been burning off Germany’s North Sea coast since Monday, and to position three hoses to pump sea water and flood the burning cargo holds, the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME) reports. CCME says that the smoke coming from the ship laden with fertilizers […]

  • USCG Detains Bulker for Safety Violations

    26 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    The United States Coast Guard said it has detained the 738-foot bulker Kind Seas, after significant safety violations were found during an inspection in Kalama, Washington, Friday. Vessel inspectors from the Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in Portland discovered the discrepancies during a routine inspection of the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, the USCG informed. Safety violations were […]