Crude oil tanker company DHT Holdings has postponed the installation of scrubbers on five of its ships, leaving the ships to trade for a while longer and reap fruit from a strong tanker market. The company currently has 13 ships fitted with scrubbers out of the planned 18 very large crude carriers s
Florida-based ship owner and operator Crowley Maritime Corp. has signed a contract with satellite communications provider Inmarsat to install high-speed broadband service Fleet Xpress on a majority of its vessels. The deal was signed following successful trials in Alaska on Aframax tanker, Californi
DEME is currently looking for a replacement vessel for the installation of Moray East jacket foundations, following the crane accident onboard the installation vessel Orion. The company is considering both the vessels in its own fleet and externally to carry out the installation of Moray East jacket
The investigations into the collapse of the heavy-lift crane onboard the installation vessel Orion are ongoing, with the first findings indicating that ”the accident had to do with a failure of the crane hook”, a spokesperson for DEME Group said. However, further investigations will need to be carri
GC Rieber Shipping has agreed with Nexans to extend the charter of the construction support vessel (CSV) Polar King. The extension is valid for additional two months, making the charter firm until September 2020. The extended period is in direct continuation of the ongoing charter, which started in
Osbit has secured a contract to design and build a monopile upending bucket for Seajacks to use in its offshore wind turbine installation projects. The monopile upending tool will be installed on the self-propelled jack-up Seajacks Zaratan and will initially support the development of the bottom-fix
Cruise shipping giant Carnival Corporation has revealed plans to resume sailing at the beginning of August. The phase-in sailings would be introduced in the company’s North America service with a total of eight ships from Miami, Port Canaveral, and Galveston. The ships in question involve Carnival D
Customs officers have found around 500 kilograms of cocaine on board a bulker that recently arrived in the Port of Hamburg.
Australian authorities have detained a bulker identified as African Heron for carrying high sulfur fuel oil. “The vessel was found to have non-compliant fuel oil on board with sulphur content above 0.5%. This is not permitted under the carriage ban on non-compliant fuel in Annex VI of MARPOL that ca
DNV GL and Alpha Ori Technologies (AOT) have signed MoU in which they agree to work together to contribute to the marine industry’s ongoing digital transformation.
The walk-to-work vessel Wind Innovation is currently deployed at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany, where a wind turbine upgrade campaign is underway. During the last week of April, the vessel mobilised for the project at DHSS support base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, according
Swan Hunter has delivered a full project management, design engineering, and mobilisation support package for Oceanteam. This allowed Oceanteam Solutions to execute a cable transpooling job with its cable transportation and handling barge. Swan Hunter designed a fully flexible deck layout allowing c
Wintershall Dea has installed two manifolds in the templates on the seabed of its Nova field project located offshore Norway.
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has entered into medium-term contracts for six of its vessels with undisclosed clients.
