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  • NGO sounds alarm urging South Korea to halt toxic ship dumping

    3 April 2025
    Environment, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Despite repeated calls for accountability concerning a number of accidents reported on board South Korean vessels sent for breaking in South Asia, the country’s shipowners continue offloading their end-of-life assets to cash buyers and circumventing international environmental safety stipulations. According to the Belgian organization NGO Shipbreaking Platform, since 2020, 94 ships owned by South Korean […]

  • NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 80% of scrapped ships in 2024 dismantled under sub-par and high-risk conditions

    3 February 2025
    Environment, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Despite ongoing concerns over unsafe and environmentally damaging shipbreaking practices, in 2024, 80% of the global vessel tonnage scrapped—totaling 255 out of 409 dismantled ships—was broken under substandard conditions on the beaches of South Asia, Belgian NGO Shipbreaking Platform has found. Notwithstanding the grave consequences for workers, with nine people losing their lives and another […]

  • Interview: North Sea OSV market headed for a slow but certain recovery

    27 July 2017

    As almost everyone in the offshore oil and gas industry, offshore support vessel owners have felt the pang of mostly the huge oil price downturn since mid-2014, but also an oversupply of tonnage, and a lack of demand for all the vessels available. Offshore Energy Today has spoken to Inger-Louise Molver, a senior shipbroker with […]

  • Rising costs and UK tax hike deal a death blow to North Sea oil project

    20 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    The windfall tax hike and the rise in costs have brought to an end the development of a North Sea oil project.

  • UK: IMarEST Appoints 110th President

    9 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Malcolm Vincent BSc (Hons), MSc, CEng, FIMarEST, FIMechE, FIOD has been appointed the 110th President of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) at its AGM today (8 March). Andreas Chrysostomou has been appointed President Elect. Malcolm Vincent takes over the reins of office from Professor John Carlton FREng DSc BA CEng CMarEng […]

  • UK: IMarEST Appoints 110th President

    9 March 2012
    Business & Finance

      Malcolm Vincent BSc (Hons), MSc, CEng, FIMarEST, FIMechE, FIOD has been appointed the 110th President of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) at its AGM on 8 March. Andreas Chrysostomou has been appointed President Elect. Malcolm Vincent takes over the reins of office from Professor John Carlton FREng DSc BA CEng […]

  • Sovcomflot Opens New TE Centre (Russia)

    26 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    On 22 December, 2012, OAO Sovcomflot held a grand opening ceremony for its new training & engineering centre (TEC) in Saint-Petersburg. This unique centre will provide special training for the company’s captains and senior officers in preparation for navigation in the challenging climatic conditions of the Arctic. The training & engineering centre will work closely […]

  • Wolverine Dredge on Sand Mining Task

    8 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    Coulee Frac Sand, based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, recently took delivery of a 10-inch Wolverine Class cutter suction dredge by DSC Dredge, LLC. The dredge, which was designed and manufactured at DSC Dredge’s Greenbush, Michigan, facility, is mining sand at the PineCrest Mine on the site of Doc’s Bunkhouse campground, near the town of Merrillan […]

  • LNG-fuelled MSC World Europa to become greenest in MSC Cruises’ fleet

    23 May 2022
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    MSC Cruises says its LNG-fuelled newbuild MSC World Europa is to become the greenest and most efficient vessel in its fleet.

  • U.S. Senator Scott Brown Visits WHOI

    16 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    On Monday, Aug. 15, U.S. Senator Scott Brown visited the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the world-renowned research and education organization based on Cape Cod. The visit was Brown’s first to WHOI. “We are delighted to have been able to host Senator Brown,” said WHOI President and Director Dr. Susan K. Avery who, along with […]

  • USA: Ingalls Shipbuilding Delivers Composite Deckhouse for Zumwalt (DDG 1000)

    10 October 2012

    Huntington Ingalls Industries, company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has delivered the composite deckhouse for the destroyer Zumwalt (DDG 1000) to the U.S. Navy. The 900-ton deckhouse provides an advanced structure to house the ship’s bridge, radars, antennas and intake/exhaust systems and is designed to provide a significantly smaller radar cross-section than any other ship in today’s […]

  • Supacat Unveils Multi-Purpose Vessel 24 (UK)

    6 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Supacat is unveiling the Supacat Multi-purpose Vessel 24 (SMV24) to the defence and security market at DSEi. Launched to the wider marine and renewable energy sectors in July, the SMV24 is a new concept in support vessel design, which also has the potential to perform a range of defence and security related roles. Its flexibility, […]

  • Russia: Sovcomflot Approves Its Development Strategy Until 2017

    27 June 2011

    The Board of Directors of OAO Sovcomflot reviewed and approved the Company’s Development Strategy until 2017. The strategy, in particular, envisages: – An increase in the proportion of the Company’s business involving the specialised shipment of energy resources, in particular liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation and shuttle tanker operations; – Further development of the Company’s […]

  • Japan to Resume Whaling in the Antartic

    30 November 2015

    Japan has announced plans to send its whaling fleet to the Antarctic Ocean under its new scaled-down scientific whale research program despite the public outcry against its lethal whaling practices. The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that the fleet would head for the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, December 1st and that it […]

  • Highlights of the Month: May 2016

    2 June 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    Shell Setting Up ‘New Energies’ Unit. Oil & Gas Companies to Cause Clash of Giants in Offshore Wind? Shell has created a new division called New Energies, through which the oil and gas giant will invest in wind energy, along with its hydrogen, biofuels and electrical activities, according to The Guardian. Even though Shell has […]

  • Germany: Siemens’ Modular MV Converters Opens up New Areas of Application

    16 March 2012

    Modularity and flexible use form the basis of a new concept for medium-voltage converters from the Siemens Drive Technologies Division. In the future, it will be possible to use different topologies in a common modular system. This opens up new areas of application for medium-voltage converters in special purpose applications, for example on ships, in […]

  • ONDEP project wins €19M EU funding to deploy wave energy array offshore Portugal

    5 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Ondas de Peniche (ONDEP) project has secured €19 million in funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe funding program to deploy a 2 MW wave energy array with four WaveRoller wave energy converters offshore Portugal. The ONDEP project will start in October 2024 and run for five and a half years, covering design, manufacturing, testing, […]

  • UK gov’t urged to act and drive adoption of shore power for ports

    23 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    New mandatory targets must push ports into installing, and subsequently ships into using, shore power technology to reduce emissions, according to the UK Chamber of Shipping.

  • UK: Public Accounts Committee Releases Report on Offshore Electricity Transmission

    14 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Public Accounts Committee (PAC) publishes report on offshore electricity transmission – a new model for infrastructure. “Not only is it unlikely that this new licensing system for bringing electricity from offshore wind farms onto the national grid will deliver any savings for consumers, it could well lead to higher prices. Indeed the terms of the transmission licences […]

  • Sovcomflot Opens New Training & Engineering Centre for Projects in Arctic

    26 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Recently OAO Sovcomflot held a grand opening ceremony for its new training & engineering centre (TEC) in Saint-Petersburg. This unique centre will provide special training for the company’s captains and senior officers in preparation for navigation in the challenging climatic conditions of the Arctic. The training & engineering centre will work closely with SCF Group […]

  • OptiFuel developing near-zero emissions RNG-fueled locomotive

    23 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Transition

    OptiFuel Systems said it is in the process of finalizing a $2.6 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to demonstrate a pre-production Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) hybrid 4,300 hp line-haul locomotive.

  • Heesen Yachts and Nakhimov launch YN 14955, MY Quinta Essentia

    17 March 2011

    Heesen Yachts and Nakhimov launch YN 14955, MY Quinta Essentia – a 55 metre semi-displacement, custom built – the largest yacht ever to be launched by this Dutch shipyard. Heesen Yachts is proud to announce that the first yacht in its 55 metre semi-displacement series was launched at the shipyard in Oss, The Netherlands on […]

  • Handbook ‘Stowaways by Sea’ Launched

    9 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Improvements in security have not reduced the number of stowaways or the number of incidents and it is seafarers who have to cope with the extra work, delay, uncertainty and possible violence. This is why The Nautical Institute has today launched Maritime Security handbook: stowaways by sea, aimed at helping people who have to deal […]

  • USA: Ingalls Delivers Composite Deckhouse for Zumwalt Destroyer

    10 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the composite deckhouse for the destroyer Zumwalt (DDG 1000) to the U.S. Navy. The 900-ton deckhouse provides an advanced structure to house the ship’s bridge, radars, antennas and intake/exhaust systems and is designed to provide a significantly smaller radar cross-section than any other […]

  • NOC Study Unveils Evidence for Assessing Tsunami Risk from Large Volcanic Island Landslides

    12 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The risk posed by tsunami waves generated by Canary Island landslides may need to be re-evaluated, according to researchers at the National Oceanography Centre. Their findings suggest that these landslides result in smaller tsunami waves than previously thought by some authors, because of the processes involved. The researchers used the geological record from deep marine […]