APM Terminals of Portsmouth, Va., has submitted a proposal to the Commonwealth of Virginia for a strategic partnership with the Port of Virginia. APM Terminals is offering to be responsible for the operation of all Port of Virginia facilities in Hampton Roads and related inland locations. APM Termin
A strategic dock, ten miles from Glasgow City Centre, is to undergo a £1.3 million transformation to create a key location for Scotland’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. The 53 hectare Westway industrial site and adjoining dock in Renfrewshire is to be one of the first beneficiaries of Scotland’
A strategic dock, ten miles from Glasgow City Centre, is to undergo a £1.3 million transformation to create a key location for Scotland’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. The 53 hectare Westway industrial site and adjoining dock in Renfrewshire is to be one of the first beneficiaries of Scotland’
FMC Technologies, Inc., a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry, has signed two five-year contracts with Island Offshore Management AS to supply Light Well Intervention (LWI) services for use by Statoil in the North Sea, contingent on approval from Statoil’s partners. Each
Excellent progress has been made on container removal from the wreck site over the past week, with 21 containers removed from the bow section on Monday – the highest number of containers removed in a single day since the break up of the wreck. A further eight containers were removed on Tuesday. Salv
Drydocks World, the established international player in ship repair, conversion, new building and offshore construction, announced that Shell’s pioneering Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility – the world’s first – was initiated with a Steel Cutting ceremony of its Turret, the world
Last Saturday, a new multi-purpose support vessel Helen Burnie was launched at Macduff Shipyards on the Isle of Mull. The vessel, worth GBP 2 million is specially designed by Inverlussa Marine Services for renewable energy, dive support, survey and civil projects. It has the ability to carry up to 1
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, announced the successful completion of field trials for the new airborne Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar system. The CZMIL system underwent field trials and valid
Visitors could see the christening of the Damen High Speed Support Vessel 2610, Marineco Dignity, on the second day of the Seawork International 2012 exhibition in Southampton. The ceremony was performed by Pauline Millar, the godmother of the vessel. The 26.3 metre long and 10.4 metre broad Marinec
Rotterdam based Vecom Group has employed Mr. Floor Breeman as Commercial Director. Floor will be involved in the Marine sales activities of the Vecom Group and he is responsible for the Marketing functions of the whole Group, i.e. both the Industrial and the Marine businesses. Group Chairman and maj
A project by the Energy Technologies Institute to identify ways of providing a cost effective deployment of tidal stream technologies at commercial scale in UK waters, has been announced at All-Energy by Charles Hendry, the Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The Tidal
Romanian drilling contractor, GSP Offshore, has secured a contract for its jack-up rig GSP Prometeu for work in the Romanian Black Sea. The contract awards comes from OMV-Petrom. Under the contract, the rig, built in 1984 and refurbished in 2003, will provide offshore light workover, support for wel
Buckie Shipyard announced confirmation of a two vessel order for Mainprize Offshore Ltd of Scarborough. Following the recent successful delivery of the South Cat ‘Dalby Derwent’ built in Buckie, Bob Mainprize was keen to return to the yard for a larger vessel. The 24 metre Offshore Support Vessels w
Vroon Shipping announced that a double namegiving ceremony for MT Iver Bright and MT Iver Brilliant took place on Tuesday 22 May 2012, at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Ulsan, South Korea. The Iver Bright was named by Mrs Metos Delgado-van de Bospoort, wife of Mr Frans van de Bospoort, Managing Director
