Russia’s Gazprom Neft said that the country’s first cargo and passenger ship-to-ship LNG-bunkering vessel has been set afloat.
Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas project is expected to start laying pipes for the gas pipeline in Danish waters in January 2021.
German liner giant Hapag-Lloyd has ordered six ultra-large container vessels from Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The $ 1 billion investment will see the LNG-powered 23,500+ TEU vessels delivered to Hapag-Lloyd between April and December 2023. The vessels will be fit
Huisman has signed a contract with Keppel AmFELS to deliver a Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) for Dominion Energy’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Charybdis. The crane will be able to lift 2,200 tons, will have a 130m long boom, and will allow the installation of the new generation of offshore w
Costa Cruises, a part of Carnival Corporation & plc, took delivery of the new Costa Firenze ship from Fincantieri, designed and built in the Marghera shipyard and inspired by the Florentine Renaissance. With 135,500 gross tonnage and a capacity of more than 5,200 guests, the Costa Firenze is part of
Heerema’s Thialf vessel completed the eight-month-long campaign to remove the Sable Project’s offshore facilities on behalf of ExxonMobil in Canada.
A 4,500 TEU containership Maersk Cadiz has been boarded by pirates while en route from Tema, Ghana to Kiribi, Cameroon. The Singapore-flagged containership is owned by the world’s largest container shipping company Maersk. “We can confirm that on 19 December 2020 at app. 14:30 local time, criminals
LPG shipping heavyweight Epic Gas, and Lauritzen Kosan A/S, the gas carrier division of J. Lauritzen, have entered into a deal to combine their fleet and business activities to create BW Epic Kosan. The combination will create a genuine powerhouse in the last mile delivery of LPG and other specialit
Vattenfall has issued a call for competition seeking a service operation vessel (SOV) for the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The selected party will provide an SOV to allow accommodation and transfer of technicians via suitable gangway solutions to turbines for scheduled mainte
MODEC in December 2020 obtained approval by ABS for the new offshore repair method for hull structures of FPSOs as an original standard repair method.
SBM Offshore has been awarded a lease extension from Shell for an FPSO in Brazil and expects another lease duration extension from ExxonMobil in Guyana.
Carnival Cruise Line, the world’s largest cruise ship operator, informed that its newly built LNG-powered cruise ship Mardi Gras has made its first port call in Rotterdam.
Polish shipbuilder Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. has launched the fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fuelled Salish Class vessel owned by the Canadian ferry operator BC Ferries. The ship entered the water over the weekend, with work continuing there until scheduled sea trials in late 2021. Following s
Edison Chouest Offshore has executed the first long-term contract with an oil and gas company to install a battery-on-board system on a PSV.
