
MMA Offshore has been awarded a support contract with Upstream Production Solutions for the MPSV Mermaid Searcher.

Support for the Port Authorities Roundtable (PAR) COVID-19 declaration, initiated by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, has more than doubled since it was first launched on 24 April 2020.

Arctic liquefied natural gas carrier Christophe de Margerie has completed the eastbound transit of the Northern Sea Route.

Klaveness Combination Carriers’ (KCC) CLEANBU vessel MV Barracuda completed last week the first voyage carrying a part cargo of jet fuel to Korea after discharging its previous cargo of soya beans in China in early May.

Rex International’s 90 per cent subsidiary, Lime Petroleum, has completed the acquisition of a 15 per cent stake in two Ineos’ Norwegian Sea licenses.

Finland-based Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch has signed a contract with US company Caterpillar (Cat) to deliver a package of electric drive train technology for a series of bulk carriers.

Golar’s floating storage and regasification unit that is supplying the Sergipe power plant in Brazil has recently received another cargo of LNG via a ship-to-ship transfer. The third STS LNG transfer has taken place from May 22-24 between the FSRU Golar Nanook and LNG carrier Excalibur, according to

Charges have been laid against the master of the APL England, a containership which lost about 50 containers overboard off Sydney on 24 May, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.

The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. remained flat at 12 units for the second week running, according to the latest weekly rig count report by Baker Hughes.

Singapore-based Saga LNG Shipping has secured a contract with India’s Venerable LNG for its midsize newbuilds.

China’s Keppel Nantong Shipyard has launched a liquefied natural gas bunkering vessel for Singapore’s FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine and Shell Eastern Petroleum. The ship claimed to be Singapore’s first LNG bunkering vessel was moved from land to water on 28 May. According

Allseas’ Solitaire pipelay vessel is now working on Energean’s Karish pipeline project located offshore Israel.

Iona, a new LNG-powered cruise ship being built for British P&O Cruises, is now a step closer to its delivery as the newbuild is scheduled to arrive in Rotterdam for inspection work in early June.

Natural gas deliveries to U.S. facilities producing liquefied natural gas for export (LNG feedgas) slipped to the lowest levels since October 2019.