One of the world’s largest suction hopper dredger, Jan de Nul’s Leiv Eiriksson, was successfully dry-docked at Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) recently. Capable of dredging up to a depth of 155m, the 78,000dwt vessel has a 46,000m3 hopper capacity and a total trailing pump power of 13,000kW
Qatar, the world’s largest LNG exporter, dispatched a cargo of the chilled gas from Ras Laffan port to Dubai on Friday.
DEME reported another particularly active first half-year in 2015. A net profit of 119.8 million euros (1H14: 62.6 million euros) was realized on an (economic) turnover of 1,218.7 million euros. Besides the many ongoing projects on all continents, several largescale projects in Australia (Wheatstone
Bakker Sliedrecht has won a contract to upgrade obsolete inverter units, both the cutter and the winches, on board the National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) cutter dredger Umm al Anbar in Abu Dhabi. A team of Bakker’s engineers will use their knowledge and expertise from previous dredging projects
Argentina’s Escobar import terminal has received a shipment of LNG from Trinidad and Tobago, shipping data shows.
JULONG, a Chinese manufacturer of various water engineering ships and platforms, has completed delivery of a cutter suction dredger CSD250 to a customer in France. The JULONG CSD250 has been delivered as a complete dredging package, including floating and land HDPE pipe lines, tools and spares packa
One of the largest LNG carriers in the world, the 266,000 cbm Shagra, is scheduled to arrive at UK’s South Hook import terminal in September.
Golar LNG said it is in negotiations with Brazilian power suppliers to provide a floating storage and regasification unit to a combined cycle power station. The company has in recent months been negotiating with Brazilian power partners to participate in up to 25% of this power project and has the e
Oslo-based Awilco LNG, owner of five LNG tankers, reported a freight income for the second quarter of US$7.3 million, down from US$12.1 in the previous quarter. The decrease was due to lower utilisation and rates for both WilGas and WilPride, according to Awilco LNG’s half-year report. Fleet utilisa
A pair of Elcano-owned 178,000m³ LNG carriers, which will be built to LR class, will be two of the largest of their kind to navigate the Panama Canal – which is due to re-open in 2016.
Royal IHC has successfully launched the MAHURY, a 1,840m³ capacity twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD), at partner shipyard MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria. The new TSHD is Dutch Dredging’s fourth IHC-built vessel, after the ALBATROS, LESSE and AMAZONE. The MAHURY is an upgrade
Nakilat, the shipping arm of Qatar’s LNG sector, has expanded its joint venture with Greek shipping company Maran Ventures to include two new LNG vessels. Maran Nakilat Co. Ltd. was established in 2005 with four jointly-owned vessels, and the agreement has been expanded on three occasions, Nakilat s
General Dynamics NASSCO revealed that TOTE 2/Hull 496, the second ship in a series of the world’s first natural gas powered containerships, is set for launch.
Dynagas LNG Partners, an owner and operator of LNG carriers, revealed a net income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015 of $14.3 million and $29.2 million, respectively, an increase of 40.0% and 37.3%, respectively, over the same periods in 2014.
