The Minister of Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Batt O’Keeffe launched the SEFtec NMCI Offshore Ltd (SNO), a public / private joint venture… (pr-inside) [mappress] Source: pr-inside, January 07, 2011
From top-tier Broadway musicals to big-ticket Las Vegas shows, the new generation of mega-ships is dazzling passengers with a quality and quantity of acts never before seen at sea. Here, USA TODAY’s Gene Sloan compares the three new entertainment titans of the waves: Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the
United Kingdom: Solar Solve Marine has received an order to supply 11 of their Solasafe roller sunscreens for installation at the bridge windows of the fleet replenishment vessel RFA ‘Fort Victoria’. The vessel was built by Harland and Wolff and delivered to the Ministry of Defence in 1993 with Sola
RWE npower renewables has today announced the award of a multi-million pound inter-array cabling contract to Draka Offshore for Gwynt y Môr… By Anna Ohlden (science20) [mappress] Source: science20, January 07, 2011
Shipping lines are warning of delays to cargo as another round of strike action brings container handling to a standstill at France’s busiest container ports. Port operations at Le Havre and Marseilles will be disrupted when members of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) stage weekend walk-out
A three-day strike that crippled Israeli ports ended today after the country’s government agreed to give dockworkers a 6% pay increase. The strike had prevented vessels loading and unloading at the Mediterranean ports of Haifa and Ashdod (pictured), and at the Red Sea port of Eilat.
The Port of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has announced that it wants to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge to overcome the navigational clearance restriction. Following a comprehensive review of numerous alternatives, PANYNJ said that raising the bridge was the most cost-effective solution,
Wells drilled offshore Congo have turned to be dry holes, Murphy Oil has reported. Murphy said its Cobalt Marine 1 and Turquoise Marine 3 exploration wells both failed to find commercial hydrocarbons however a third well, Turquoise Marine 4, encountered a well developed deeper reservoir but with onl
Ocean freight rates will remain stable in the first half of 2011 if shipping lines have learned the capacity management lessons of the last two years, according to leading forwarders. Kaiying Chan, Senior VP for Ocean Freight, South Asia-Pacific at DHL Global Forwarding, told IFW the lines were now
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (FET) announced that its Subsea Solutions business has released VMAX 2.0, an extensive upgrade to their existing VMAX Project Simulator software. VMAX is used by operators, service companies and engineering firms to run simulations of complex situations in a subsea en
Salamander Energy plc, the Asia focussed independent oil and gas exploration and production company, provides an operational update on its forthcoming drilling activity in Block B8/38, Gulf of Thailand (Image above). The Ocean Sovereign jack-up rig, contracted for the B8/38 drilling campaign, is cur
PD Ports has announced it has reached another major milestone at Teesport – handling its 150,000 container through its container terminals for the first time in history within a calendar year. Frans Calje, PD Ports MD Unitised, said: “To have reached this record number from a steady throughput of ar
Mulder Shipyard has received a new order to build a Mulder 73 Flybridge for a client from Australia, having previously delivered a yacht to a client in New Zealand two years ago. The all-aluminium yacht is an entirely new design by Guido de Groot and Ginton Naval Architects, and will be delivered in
As of the 1st of January 2011 T.O.S (Transport & Offshore Services) will be the supplier of nautical temporary personnel (sailing) in the North Sea area for Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management) for a period of three years. At the end of Decembe
