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  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • ONGC set to hire floating platform for Bombay High

    5 August 2005

    Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has decided to hire a floating platform sub-sea operation (FPSO) from overseas to restore the functioning at its oil processing platform, Bombay High North, which was engulfed by fire last week.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Update: Alliance St. Louis Heads to Port Arthur

    19 January 2017

    The vehicle carrier Alliance St. Louis, which suffered an engine room fire some 150 miles south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana, on January 16, 2017, is currently under tow and is heading towards Port Arthur, Texas, the US Coast Guard (USCG) informed. A tug arrived on scene on January 17 with a fire team aboard to […]

  • 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 […]

  • UK’s fourth subsea electricity superhighway to sport Siemens Energy converter stations

    17 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Siemens Energy has been appointed as the preferred bidder for the delivery of two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations for the fourth out of five subsea electricity superhighways between Scotland and England. This news for the Eastern Green Link 4 (EGL4) project comes as National Grid and SP Energy Networks signed a joint venture […]

  • 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 […]

  • Inferno continues on Timor Sea oil rig

    3 November 2009

    The federal government has continued to defend its response to an oil spill leaking for more than 10 weeks, which has now sparked an oil rig fire in the Timor Sea. A fire broke out on PTTEP Australasia’s Montara well head platform on Sunday when the company began an operation to plug the well with […]

  • Report: NITC Still Hopes There Are Survivors on board Sanchi

    11 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    NITC believes there might be survivors on board the company’s stricken oil tanker.

  • NYK pens ammonia transport deal with Mitsui & Co.

    6 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Japanese shipping company NYK has entered into a time charter contract with compatriot Mitsui & Co., Ltd. for the transportation of ammonia. NYK revealed that the deal was signed in October and that it would use its Panama-flagged LPG carrier, the Berlian Ekuator, as the key vessel for the shipments. “Through this agreement, NYK will […]

  • 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 […]

  • Sterling PlanB and ICE Marine Design partner on ESS adoption

    8 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Storage

    Canadian energy storage company, Sterling PlanB, and independent ship design group, ICE Marine Design, have signed a cooperation agreement to increase the uptake of energy storage systems (ESS).

  • Flame-Defying Maritime Pilots Win IMO Bravery Award

    29 November 2017

    Two maritime pilots who defied fire to bring a burning ship to safety, averting a major maritime catastrophe, received the 2017 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea during the 2017 IMO awards ceremony, held on November 27. Pilots Captain Michael G. McGee and Captain Michael C. Phillips, from Houston, United States, were recognized for […]

  • Recently Ignited CCNI Arauco Returned to Owners

    7 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    The 300-meter-long container vessel CCNI Arauco, which ignited on September 1 in the German port of Hamburg, was returned to its owners after the teams on site extinguished the fire and completed the follow-on operations, according to marine and offshore services company Ardent Global. Following the incident, a salvage contract was signed to speed up the response and clean-up […]

  • Offshore safety body spots irregularities during Gudrun audit

    5 September 2018

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has found irregularities during an audit of Equinor’s Gudrun field.

  • VIDEO: Azeri oil platform still burning

    29 December 2015

    The Gunashli 10 oil platform that caugh fire on December 4, 2015 is still burning, with the Azeri authorities struggling to quell the fire more than twenty days since the incident started. To remind, the fire broke out after a gas riser was damaged in a storm. Sixty three persons were aboard the Gunashli 10 […]