Havyard Ship Technology Leirvik`s newbuild 101 Havila Subsea, a Havyard 855 IMR design, was named in a ceremony in Stavanger, Norway . After the naming ceremony Havila Subsea will be operating on a long-term contract between Havila Shipping ASA and Subsea 7. The vessel is a subsea vessel performing
NYK has signed a time charter-party with French multinational energy company GDF Suez for the LNG carrier Grace Acacia (100,341 gross tons), for a four-year period starting from summer 2012. Grace Acacia is co-owned by NYK Line and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and was delivered from Hyundai in 2007. The vessel
Dutch offshore and ferry operating companies Workships Contractors and the Doeksen family announce their continued expansion into the service sector of the offshore wind industry by signing a Heads of Agreement for an Anglo-Dutch co-operation with Offshore Wind Power Marine Services Ltd, one of the
Det norske oljeselskap ASA has as license partner made a gas discovery in the Norvarg prospect in the Barents Sea license 535, operated by Total E&P Norge AS. Exploration well 7225/3-1 has not been completed. Preliminary well data indicate gas at three different levels, a significant part of it in t
On 16 June 2011 SCF Group and LUKOIL signed an agreement on the deliveries of lubricating oil for Sovcomflot vessels. The document envisages the delivery of system oil, marine cylinder oil, trunk piston engine oil and about ten other types of oil to 80 SCF vessels. The Agreement was signed for a two
Survey ship HMS Echo is giving the anti-piracy effort in the Indian Ocean ‘the edge’ by updating badly-needed charts of the region – eliminating no-go areas for Allied warships. The Devonport-based ship is gathering reams of bathymetric data – recording the depth of the ocean – in these troubled wat
Hibernia Atlantic, the only American-owned, diverse transatlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, announces another important milestone in its Project Express cable build; its deep-sea submarine survey is now underway. A critical step in this historic build, the submarine survey will use speci
US State Department considers the Sea Breeze 2011 exercise a display of close cooperation between the US and Ukraine, and welcomes Moscow to hold by its own opinion, said Mark Toner, spokesman for US State Department at the briefing on June 13. Russian Foreign Ministry earlier stated that Aegis-carr
Diana Containerships Inc., a global shipping company specializing in owning and operating containerships, today announced that the Company has taken delivery on June 14, 2011 of a Panamax container vessel, the m/v “Maersk Madrid,” a 1989-built vessel of 4,206 TEU capacity. As previously announced, t
The European Commission has requested Belgium, Estonia, France, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Finland and the United Kingdom to adopt national legislation to implement EU rules setting up a vessel traffic monitoring and information system . The rules in question, an important measure to preven
A major shipping conference was told that the international community, including the EU, is “decades away” from tackling maritime piracy… (TheParliament) [mappress] Source: TheParliament, June 16, 2011.
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises is visually unifying the appearance of its fleet. After a 13-day-ship yard stay at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg/ Germany, the HANSEATIC now features the Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ characteristic colors, an orange and blue band, as well as an orange funnel with the cruise lines logo. The com
Wärtsilä Corporation, the global leader in complete power lifecycle solutions and services, and Metso Corporation have signed an agreement to co-operate in developing and delivering scrubber systems for marine applications. Under the terms of this agreement, Metso is to supply the scrubber unit, whi
BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of the BMT Group, has announced a number of innovative technologies to help improve the experience of personnel travelling to and from offshore windfarms. It is not only the vessel performance that is affected by rough weather; seasickness amongst workers travelling to of
