Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical (STL) has signed shipbuilding contracts with South Korean shipbuilding majors Hyundai Heavy Industries and Samsung Heavy Industries for the construction of four Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) worth a total of $441 million. Each shipbuilder has been entrusted with
German container shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has confirmed new coronavirus cases among its crew.
The Philippine Coast Guard will continue to pursue criminal charges against the owners of MV Vienna Wood, a Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier, which was involved in a deadly collision with a fishing vessel in June southwest of Manila. The decision is being announced on the back of settlement reached be
JIFMAR Offshore Services’ shallow draft DP1 workboat JIF Breizh has completed operations at the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, under a contract with Jan De Nul. The vessel, which was contracted and transported to Taiwan earlier this year, worked on export cable pull-in landfall Horizontal D
The LPG deck tanks intended for retrofitting of the BW Gemini, an LPG tanker operated by Singapore-based BW LPG, the world’s largest liquid petroleum gas shipping company, are en route for installation, the company said in an update. BW Gemini is the first of the initial two vessels selected for ret
GC Rieber Shipping has delivered IMR vessel Polar King to the new owner. The company entered into the sale agreement for the vessel last week. GC Rieber did not reveal the name of the buyer. The Polar King is a multipurpose subsea vessel specially capable of execution operations under severe weather
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the global economy, the Panama Canal Authority has decided to extend its temporary relief measures to 31 December 2020, offering further support for the industry’s recovery.
The Panama-flagged chemical/oil tanker Aegean II was not hijacked off the Horn of Africa earlier this month, EU NAVFOR said, citing Somali Bossaso port authority.
Tokyo-based shipping consortium e5 Lab Inc. has started developing the Roboship, the standard models of electrically powered vessels to realize zero emissions, as well as an integrated system called the Roboship Box which brings together telecommunications, the Internet of Things (IoT), and software
Dramatic scenes of the Wakashio’s bow being sent out to its final resting place were captured on Sunday, August 24th, as the front section of the broken up Capesize bulker was sunk in a planned operation in Mauritian waters. The sinking of the stem section of the wreck was completed at around 3.30 p
Diverse Marine has laid the keel for High Speed Transfers’ new hybrid Chartwell 24 crew transfer vessel (CTV) HST Ella. Hull fabrication for HST Ella is currently underway at the Isle of Wight yard in the UK, HST said. In July, HST revealed it had awarded Chartwell Marine with a contract to design a
The global containership orderbook, seen as a percentage of the world fleet, has dropped to a historic low in July 2020, standing at only 9.4% or 2.21 million TEU, data from Alphaliner shows. This was the first time in more than 20 years, the global newbuilding pipeline fell below the 10% threshold.
Sea Challenger has left the port of Esbjerg with one of the last batches of turbines for the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm. DEME’s vessel is working in tandem with its sister vessel Sea Installer on the installation of 94 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines at the site in the Dutch part of […]
French shipping group CMA CGM is to take delivery of its first ultra large LNG-powered containership following completion of the vessels’ gas trials. The CMA CGM Jacques Saade returned to the Shanghai Jiangnan-Changxing Shipyard, a part of China’s Hudong-Zhongua, on Monday, its AIS data shows. To re
