Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s third-largest shipyard company, has signed a contract to build four container vessels valued at about $525 million (Canadian) from Germany.
The Tordis subsea facility now lies safely on the seabed near the Gullfaks field in the North Sea. Lifting the 1,250-tonne structure on the Tordis field started on Sunday 12 August. During Monday 13 August the Saipem S7000 crane vessel completed the operation and left the Tordis field.
On Tuesday 7 August, the cruise ship «Thomson Spirit» collided with another cruise ship – «Ocean Majesty» – on the Geirangerfjord in Norway. A lifeboat and the davit for a tender vessel were damaged. This resulted in «Ocean Majesty» being refused permission to continue its cruise until a satisfactor
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (the ‘Company’) reports net income of $7.2 million and earnings per share of $0.42 for the second quarter of 2007. The average daily time charter equivalents (‘TCEs’) earned by the Company’s five VLCCs was $36,800 compared with $43,800 in the preceding quarter. The seco
Former leader of Poland’s Solidarity trade union Lech Walesa has condemned an attempt by the EU to close most of the Gdansk shipyard. ‘The European Union should help us to bring efficiency to the shipyard, and we should not lose it as part of some stupid political game,’ Walesa has said, according t
Keppel AmFELS Inc., the US wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), has secured a contract from Mexican company Perforadora Central SA de CV to build a jackup rig valued at approximately US$190 million. The jackup drilling rig is due for delivery in end-2009, and is
The captain of an Arctic cruise ship hit by a wave of freezing water and ice when a glacier partially collapsed could face up to two years in jail if it is found that he sailed too close to the ice sheet, officials said yesterday.
U.S. Coast Guard divers inspected the hull of a cruise ship docked in Long Beach Harbor Sunday after several people reported having seen a small, suspicious boat floating nearby, authorities said. Cruise ship officials called the Coast Guard at 11:30 a.m., after one of four people in the 18-foot ski
Vietnamese state-run shipbuilder Vinashin has entered a deal with the central Ninh Thuan province to build a US$7.5 billion iron casting facility. Once raised, the behemoth would churn out 8.5 million tons of iron annually in Ninh Phuoc district.
Mr. Tom Einertsen (45) has today been appointed President of Aker Yards’ business area Merchant Vessels, and a member of the Executive Management Team, succeeding Mr. Jürgen Kennemann as of September 1st 2007. Mr. Einertsen will report to Mr. Yrjö Julin, President & CEO of Aker Yards and be based in
Technip has been awarded a contract by Bluewater Industries, Inc. for the flowlines(1), risers(2), jumpers(3) and subsea structures for the Mirage field development, in the Gulf of Mexico. This field is located in Mississippi Canyon Block 941, at a water depth of 4,050 feet. ATP Oil & Gas Corporatio
Following its 2006 brilliant feat, with the impressive enlargement of the Marina, Genoa International Boat Show keeps growing. To strengthen its world leadership, the forty-seventh Boat Show – organised by Fiera di Genova SpA and UCINA, the Italian boating industry’s professional association – will
A father and his 11-year-old son had a lucky escape after their boat capsized off the west Dorset coast.
Swissco International Ltd, a SESDAQ-listed company, is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Swissco Offshore Pte Ltd (SOPL) has recently added 2 more offshore support vessels worth S$8.65m to their vessel fleet. The first unit is a 45m vessel placed with a Chinese shipyard in Guangz
