The specialists of JSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (“SPSPb”) together with the employees of “Universal Forwarder” successfully reloaded heavy-lift import equipment – two rolls for steel rolling mill with the weight of 227 tons each. Cargo was delivered from Hamburg on the board of the vessel “Cap
Finnish officials discovered about 160 tons of explosives and 69 surface-to-air missiles found on a cargo ship bearing a British flag and on its way to China. Massive amounts of picric acid and the missiles were found as the dock workers were loading the chains. The M/S Thor Liberty left the north G
Farstad Shipping announces that its AHTS Far Scout has been contracted by Petrobras in Brazil for a 4 year period. Petrobras has the option to extend the contract with another 4 years. The contract includes both anchor handling- and ROV services. A third party has been contracted for delivery of the
In view of continuous poor trading conditions and replacing its current service set up, effective from mid January 2012 Hamburg Süd and MSC will restructure their services between the Mediterranean and South America East Coast. The two currently separate services will be fused into one common servic
With only a few working days to go before offices close for the Christmas period, Regs4ships received excellent news from the Antigua & Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping. Regs4ships‘ Digital Maritime Regulations service has been officially recognised as an electronic equiva
Euronav Ship Management has signed up to Dynamarine’s online ship-to-ship transfer information service (OSIS). The company introduced a portal ONLINESTS.NET in January offering a dedicated information platform for assessing ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operations through OSIS. Participation in OSIS i
DeepOcean Group Holding AS, an integrated provider of subsea engineering and trenching services, today announced a new long-term charter agreement with REM Ship AS for the multi-purpose offshore construction vessel Rem Forza. This new vessel represents an important step in DeepOcean Group’s strategy
Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has completed the first certification audit of any shipping company in the world to the new standard ISO 50001- 2011 – Energy Management Systems. Stena’s ship management division, Northern Marine Management Ltd including Northern Marine Ma
As regulatory developments have become an increasingly important strategic driver for Wärtsilä businesses, Wärtsilä has decided to strengthen its activities to enhance and promote the policy framework fostering the strategic business targets. The following appointments have been made within Wärtsilä
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) will keep carrying out its stabilizing port fee strategy. The cap will not be raised regardless of the strong growth in especially large container ships. Ships will pay port fees only for a size of up to about 110,000 gross tonnage, which roughly corresponds to a con
TBS International plc today announced that it has reached agreements with its bank lenders on terms to reduce its leverage and refresh its fleet. As part of these agreements, TBS and the syndicates led by Bank of America and DVB Group Merchant Bank have agreed on terms to restructure outstanding in
The second semi-submersible drilling rig COSLInnovator built by Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd for COSL Drilling Europe AS (CDE) was departed on 8:00 AM 21th Dec 2011. After the departure, COSLinnovator will sail to Norway by the 6 thrusters themselves, and will pass Singapore, Cape of Good Hope,
Dockwise Ltd. announces that it has entered into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Keppel of Singapore for transportation of their jack-up and semi-submersible drilling units. The USD 55 million awards comprise contracts for transportation of four jack-up drilling rigs, one semi-submersible dril
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that 13 foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during November 2011 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection. Latest monthly figures show that there were six new detentions of foreign flagged ships in UK ports during N
