Longitude Engineering, part of LOC Group, has provided the concept and basic design services for Woen Jinn Harbor Engineering’s new DP2 cable-laying vessel that will service the Taiwanese offshore wind market. Longitude Engineering also provided construction specifications for yard engagement and pr
Dubai-based Drydocks World has held a steel-cutting ceremony to mark the start of production on the Bokalift 2 conversion project for Boskalis B.V. Drydocks World will convert a drillship YAN into the offshore installation vessel Bokalift 2. This vessel is designed to carry out offshore operations f
Odfjell Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Stavanger is preparing for drilling operations off South Africa, where it will start a firm contract with French major Total. The dual derrick, dynamic positioned (DP), semi-submersible is set to work in demanding environmental conditions char
A Stolt-Nielsen chemical tanker sustained minor damages over the weekend after armed guards aboard Stolt Apal and pirates engaged in a brief gun battle while the vessel was underway in the Gulf of Aden. Confirming the incident to Offshore Energy, Stolt-Nielsen said that bullets damaged the ship’s br
A brand new liquefied natural gas carrier owned by France LNG Shipping has started a long-term charter with a unit of state-controlled utility EDF. France LNG Shipping is a joint venture consisting of Japanese shipping giant NYK and Geogas LNG, a company controlled by LPG shipper Geogas and European
The coronavirus pandemic is opening up many new opportunities for the shipping industry, Cristina Aleixendri, COO at bound4blue, said during a video conference hosted by SMM.
Norway-based bulker owner and operator Belships has so far stayed clear of investing in scrubbers and has no plans of changing its position on the matter. The main incentive for scrubber investments has been so far the price differential between high sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) and low sulfur fuel oil (L
GC Rieber Shipping has seen its quarterly loss widened on Subsea & Renewables fleet impairment as a result of current market. Namely, the company recognised an impairment of its Subsea & Renewables fleet in Q1 2020 of NOK 293.3 million. As a result, GC Rieber booked loss of NOK 301.6 million, agains
Royal Dutch Shell has taken part in two liquefied natural gas bunkering operations in the French port of Marseille and in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. In the Port of Marseille Fos, Shell and Carnival carried out the first-ever ship-to to ship LNG bunkering operation in France supplying fuel to the 2
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) and Royal IHC (IHC) successfully launched cutter suction dredger (CSD) MOHAB MAMEESH today, Friday, 15 May. The launching ceremony took place at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen a/d IJssel, The Netherlands. The 29,190kW heavy-duty rock CSD has been specifically designed in cl
Netherlands-based SeaMar Group has secured a new six-month contract from MMT for the offshore support vessel Deep Helder. Deep Helder is a DP2 offshore survey and ROV vessel with 50 berths. The 61-metre-long vessel is suitable for seabed surveys in water depths of 10–2000 metres. The vessel is also
TV Dredging has been nominated by Hoftijzer Verhuur- en Aannemingsbedrijf to build a new deep suction dredger and booster pontoon. The new custom-build vessel will be used for sand extraction. The in-house engineered vessel – type TVD DSD 35 DE – will have a dredging depth of 37m. The main vessel me
Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding (HVS), a subsidiary of Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. Ltd. (HMD), has delivered a new dry-bulk carrier to the national shipping carrier of Saudi Arabia Bahri. The bulk carrier, named Sara, increases the company’s fleet of dry-bulk carriers to six ships in line with its effort
MAN Energy Solutions has won the contract to supply individual MAN B&W ME-LGIP liquid gas injection propane dual-fuel engines to Hartmann’s three new 5,000 cbm LPG tankers.
