The Bilbao Port Authority has awarded SATO, a civil engineering company, the contract for the building of a new cruise terminal at Getxo at a cost of 13.8 million euros, with a 16-month completion period. The works are scheduled to commence at the end of the summer. The new terminal will be built in
At a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation (2- 6 July in London) the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) – which represents global shipowners and 80% of the world merchant fleet – will be opposing a proposal to establish a new recommended
EMO (HES Beheer economic interest 36.6%) today welcomed the “Vale Italia”, a “Very Large Ore Carrier” on her terminal, at Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte. This magnificent new vessel carries 380,000 tonnes of iron ore for the German steel industry. EMO will unload the “Vale Italia” in approximately 4 days us
Hamburg Süd is pressing ahead vigorously with its commitment to environmental protection. The shipping group thus decided recently to set itself an objectively measurable environmental target: by 2020 Hamburg Süd is aiming to reduce the CO2e emissions of its owned and chartered container vessels per
Statoil ASA has exercised its option to extend their present contract with Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF), for hire of the large AHTS “Normand Ferking” (build -07) for 1 year. With this extension the vessel will be on contract to September 2013. Statoil still holds options to extend with further 2 x 1
FRISIA-Offshore, located in Germany, and Offshore Wind Services BV from the Netherlands announced a cooperation agreement. The intention of FRISIA-Offshore and OWS is to invest together in new Crew Transfer Vessels through a joint venture in the coming months. This joint venture will serve as growth
A report highlighting latest details of the plight of seafarers at the hands of Somali pirates was launched on Friday 22nd June at a press conference in London. The report, The Human Cost of Piracy 2011, is written jointly by Kaija Hurlburt of One Earth Future for its Oceans Beyond Piracy project an
ESL Shipping Ltd, part of Aspo Group, has sold its oldest ship, m/s Hesperia, for approx. EUR 3.3 million. The transaction was concluded yesterday, June 25, 2012. A sales gain of approx. EUR 2.4 million will be recorded in the profit for the second quarter. The sale of m/s Hesperia, built in 1991, i
KBR announced yesterday that it was selected as Höegh’s preferred engineer to execute pre-FEED studies for two of its projects off the coast of Israel and offshore Australia. KBR will provide the pre-FEED study for the King liquefied natural gas-floating production storage and offloading (LNG-FPSO)
BOURBON is fully committed to the International Maritime Organisation’s second International Day of the Seafarer. The day is to recognise how much the sea means to us and how much seafarers’ activities contribute directly or indirectly to our everyday lives. For the occasion, the IMO is asking every
Odfjell has acquired two modern LPG/Ethylene gas carriers of about 9,000 m3 carrying capacity each from two Singaporean companies controlled by the BLT Group. The vessels, MT Gas Sumbawa and MT Gas Lombok were built at STX Shipbuilding, Korea in 2008. Delivery to Odfjell will take place in August an
Equipment orders, software programming and initial construction have forged ahead at APM Terminals’ new 2.7 million TEU annual throughput capacity terminal with a brief presentation and inspection tour held today on land recently reclaimed from the sea at the Maasvlakte 2 site at the Port of Rotterd
Star Information Systems (SIS), an industry leader in the supply of software and services for technical ship and rig management, has successfully completed the installation of its Star Information & Planning System (Star IPS) across Solstad Offshore’s fleet of 50 high-specification vessels. Solstad,
Six existing certified service partner stations in Australia, and three in New Zealand will expand their servicing portfolio to include VIKING’s popular fixed-price Shipowner Agreement. The expansion will take place through two long-running VIKING partners – Australia’s Wiltrading and New Zealand’s
