The wellhead platform for OMV New Zealand’s Maari oil project arrived in New Zealand waters today, and the project is on track to be onstream in the third quarter of this year. The Maari wellhead platform on April 11 sailed into New Zealand on board Dockwise heavy transport vessel Blue Marlin. The 1
Team Russia has announced five key crew members for their 2008-09 race campaign. The crew is shaping up as a blend of Whitbread/Volvo veterans and Olympic and leading internationals sailors. Besides team founder Oleg Zherebtsov, the search continues for additional Russian crew members.
Oceanteam ASA announced today that it has received approval from the Mexican Foreign Investments Commission to complete the purchase of 90% of the shares within Compania Naviera de Transporte Maritimo, SA de CV (‘CONAT’) based in Cuidad del Carmen, Mexico.
Dockwise Ltd., the parent company of The Dockwise Group of companies, announces that Dockwise Yacht Transport’s (DYT) newest ship, the 687.5-foot (209 meter) Yacht Express, left Ft. Lauderdale today with a full load of cargo: $154 million worth of private luxury yachts. Headquartered in Ft. Lauderda
By improving Gerinimo’s previous reference time by almost 4 days on the San Francisco / Yokohama record course, Gitana 13 and her crew offer to Multiplast a new item to its head lines, in 11d 00h 12‘ 55‘’. And one could not deny that considering the course Yokohama / San Francisco, Geronimo is still
Imtech (technical services provider in Europe and the global maritime market) announces that it has expanded its maritime service network with two new branches in Canada. On the maritime market, Imtech is a major international player with almost 70 international service points and branches in Europe
A beloved national proverb in the Netherlands notes, ‘God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands’—a reference to the industrious North Sea land reclamation begun as early as the ninth century to form what now constitutes about 20 percent of that country’s total territory.
Fergus Torrance of Titan, Hyde & Torrance reports a busy month with THT representing the buyers of the 42.5m Oceanco Blacksheep and the 39m Picchiotti Alta, as well as the confidential sale of a large classic motor yacht.
StatoilHydro will implement 26 turnarounds on installations in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea in 2008. The upgrading is in keeping with the company’s focus on maintenance and modifications aimed at increased robustness of the facilities and improved oil and gas recovery on the Norwegian continental
The Pula based shipyard Avangard Yachts (formerly Heli Yachts) launched the 50m Avangard II at the end of March. Her exterior lines come from the drawing board of Frank Mulder, while the interior is designed by the Rome based design studio Lazzarini & Pickering.
The owner of harbour-side land is being threatened with a compulsory purchase order to allow a port to expand. Great Yarmouth Port Company told the borough council it needed the areas known as the Tank and Tent sites for the East Port outer harbour project.
Qatargas, Shell and PetroChina today signed binding sales and purchase agreements that will lead to the long-term supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) originating from The State of Qatar to the rapidly growing Chinese market. The agreements were signed in Beijing by His Excellency Abdullah bin Hama
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore load handling solutions has signed an agreement to acquire US based Platform Crane Services International Inc (PCS). The sales of the company in 2007 were approximately USD 16 million and the company employs 105 persons.
Wärtsilä inaugurated yesterday a new workshop in Manaus, Brazil, to serve the growing number of customers in the Amazon region of Brazil. At present there are 17 power plants designed and installed by Wärtsilä in Brazil. They have a combined generating capacity of more than 780 MWe. The largest of t
