To operate container terminals The Chinese ports investor Cosco Pacific Ltd. looks set to upgrade and manage two of the three container shipping berths in the Greek port of Piraeus. The company said on Friday that it had been notified by the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) that it was the highest bidde
PGS’s latest vessel, the third generation Ramform Sovereign, has completed its first seismic survey. The 800 sq km 3D survey was acquired on a Multi-client basis in License PL402 in the Norwegian-Danish Basin and was underwritten by Talisman Energy and its partners. Acquired as high density 3D (HD3D
StatoilHydro has awarded the contract for the fabrication and installation of structures and tie-in of the pipeline systems for the Gjøa project to France’s Technip. The contract is worth some NOK 500 million, and the work will start immediately. Technip has previously been awarded the contract for
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has asked BOS data processing (DP) to process seismic data from a 2D survey it is carrying out in the Nordland VII/Troms II area. BOS DP has been awarded the processing and imaging of the 14,000 km data set as a combined onboard/onshore geophysical workshop. The p
New Vessels – June 18, 2008 The operator cabin on the CSD250. • The aft side of the main pontoon with the spud poles and spud keepers. Damen in The Netherlands reports that a Damen CSD250 cutter suction dredger has been delivered to the Maldives. The population of the Maldives not only earns its liv
News – June 18, 2008 nwi.com in the US reports that construction of a disposal facility to hold contaminated dredgings from the Indiana Harbour and Ship Canal “could stop as soon as next month” if local sponsors of the project don’t come up with some money. According to the report, the US Army Corps
News – June 18, 2008 Local press reports say the Azerbaijani government has “toughened sharply” the requirements for the feasibility study being made by South Korea’s GSE & Construction for the new Baku Sea International Trade Port in Alat, Baku. Sadraddin Mammadov, the chief of the Department of Tr
Hamburg, 10 June 2008. Today the RIO DE JANEIRO was christened at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (DSME) yard in Okpo (Korea). After the “Rio de la Plata” she is the second newbuilding of a series of six identical vessels, each with a slot capacity of 5,900 TEU. This makes the
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Technip (Paris:TEC – News) (ISIN:FR0000131708) and DOF Subsea announce that their 50/50 joint venture has been awarded by Petrobras a contract, worth approximately USD 250 million, for the four-year charter of a new pipelay vessel. The vessel will be used for p
Web-Based Digital Bridge(TM) Provides On-Demand Operations Metrics SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tideworks Technology® Inc., a leading provider of full-service terminal management and planning software solutions, today announced the availability of Digital Bridge™, a Web-based, real-time, comprehensive gr
Ranger and Hyperion ran out respective winners in the IRC Performance and Traditional Pursuit classes in the Superyacht Cup Ulysse Nardin after a cracking final day’s windward leeward racing in Palma Bay. Hyperion took the famous Bent Cleat Trophy while Ranger also picked up the Yachting World Perfo
Military sonar used in fleet exercise said to be linked to deaths of marine mammals By Jonathan Owen Sunday, 15 June 2008 As the bodies of 26 common dolphins were recovered from the Cornish coastline last week, marine mammal experts and conservationists struggled to understand the incident. More tha
16 June 2008, 16:50 / SeaNews / Rating: 25 Delivered from Sweden On June, 14 a multipurpose crane Multidocker CH65C was delivered to the Liepaja port from Sweden, Liepaja.lv reports. The cost of the carne – about 1 mn euros.
Chevron and Transneft signed a protocol of intention due to which the sides will examine of the possibility of the joint realization of pipeline projects, RBC reports quoting the press-service of the Russian representative office of Chevron. The act was signed in the framework of the Saint-Petersbur
