Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy, has enhanced its American backbone with a new fiber pair on Curie submarine cable connecting Chile to US. The Google-owned subsea cable Curie is the first direct US-Chile cable connecting Los Angeles to Valparaiso. Sparkle’s new fiber pair
Two new pirate attacks that resulted in the kidnapping of seafarers have been reported in the Gulf of Guinea. It appears that both incidents could be related.
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has finalized negotiations regarding its financial restructuring and the agreed conditions for two Ocean Yield’s anchor handlers.
Sinopec Corp has put the country’s largest petrochemical port into operation with the successful docking and unloading of the New Renown, a very large crude oil carrier (VLCC) from the Middle East.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped by one unit over the last week, according to weekly rig count reports published last Friday by Baker Hughes Company.
Spanish LNG services provider HAM Group has opened an LNG and CNG service station in Albacete.
The USS Montgomery combat ship and the dry cargo ship USNS Cesar Chavez checked out the West Capella drillship during their presence operations in the South China Sea on Thursday.
The world’s largest crane vessel, Sleipnir, has lifted Wintershall Dea’s Nova field topside module from the Rosenberg WorleyParsons yard in Stavanger, Norway.
On 27 April, Damen Yichang Shipyard in China hosted a digital steel cutting ceremony for a roll-on/roll-off passenger (RoPax) ferry ordered by the Government of Timor-Leste.
Norway’s TeamTec said it has secured a contract from compatriot Höegh LNG to supply equipment for the latter’s two liquefied natural gas carriers. TeamTec will supply new ballast water management systems with electro chlorination for the 2006-built Arctic Princess and Arctic Lady. The installation o
AMSA completes subsea operations, successful recovering 63 shipping containers of YM Efficiency containership.
South Korea has started building a small liquefied natural gas bunkering vessel as part of a project backed by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. A steel-cutting ceremony to mark the construction of the 500 cubic meter capacity LNG bunkering barge for coastal use was held on May 6, the ministry s
Belgium’s tanker shipping company Euronav has disposed of TI Hellas, one of its older very large crude carriers (VLCCs).
Greece-based LNG shipping company GasLog is set to take delivery of another liquefied natural gas newbuild from South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries. The 180,000 cubic meter GasLog Wales will join GasLog’s fleet on May 11, 2020, the LNG shipper said on Thursday. Once delivered, the vessel will sta
