A major study is to be carried out to explore future options for troubled Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter. A working group set up to redevelop the site, on the north bank of the River Tyne, met for the first time on Thursday. North Tyneside Council and Newcastle City Council are working with site owne
Teekay Shipping Corp., an operator of crude oil tankers, on Friday said one of its subsidiaries bought a 40 percent stake in Norwegian oil services provider Petrojarl ASA. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under Norwegian law Bahamas-based Teekay must bid for the remainder of the company in the ne
BUNKER fuel continues to leak from two tanks of the sunken M/T Solar 1, but only in “very small” quantities, a Coast Guard official said. The leaks on the tanks, each with a capacity of 200,000 liters, were discovered by the remote-operated submersible from the Japanese salvage ship Shin Sei Maru, w
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The only official barrier to controversial plans to transfer oil between ships in the Forth has been removed, officials have confirmed. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has approved Forth Ports’ contingency arrangements for dealing with spills during oil transfers. In July the MCA said it would ap
Global Ocean Sailing Ventures (GOSV) is now accepting entries for the inaugural 2007 Global Ocean Challenge. The Global Ocean Challenge is the first ever solo double global ocean race where singlehanded and double-handed teams will be competing on the same around-the-world racecourse aboard 40ft and
A state-of-the-art gunboat was handed over to the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg Friday. Built at St. Petersburg’s Almaz shipyard, the Astrakhan will be the first in the navy warship to have stealth capabilities and can be armed with various artillery systems previously used only on destroyers. Atte
Petro-Canada today announced the completion of planned dry dock work on the Terra Nova Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO). The vessel is currently moored at dockside in the Keppel Verolme (KV) shipyard in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, for completion of a maintenance turnaround. I
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a $95.8 million contract for the detail design of the U.S. Navy’s 21st century DDG 1000 destroyer. The contract, to be performed by the company’s Ship Systems sector, includes the detail design and the procurement of any vendor-furnished infor
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) plans to restore normal production from the fire-hit Mumbai High North oilfield have been hit by start-up problems. The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Crystal Sea, hired from SeaDrill of Norway, has not been able to start oper
The Kochi Port will soon offer 50 per cent concession in vessel-related charges to mainline ships. A meeting of the Board of Trustees decided this on Wednesday, said Chairman of Cochin Port Trust N. Ramachandran here on Thursday. He was speaking at a workshop on evolving an export strategy for the S
A 30-month charter worth some NOK 2.3 billion (USD 378 million), taking effect from the end of 2008, has been awarded by Statoil to rig contractor Transocean for its Transocean Leader drilling unit. Transocean Leader will be used mainly for exploration and production drilling in the Tampen and Halte
A Japanese survey ship has found a sunken tanker, three weeks after it went down in rough seas, causing the Philippines’ worst oil spill. The Philippines coastguard says the Japanese vessel found the wreck in deep water off Guimaras island after carrying out a sonar sweep of the area. A remote-contr
A Royal Navy warship built in the north-east of England is sailing back home for a visit. HMS Northumberland will be berthed at Spillers Wharf, on Newcastle’s Quayside, over the weekend. The Type 23 Frigate was built at the Swan Hunter yard, in Wallsend, and launched in 1992. There will be a series
