Warnemünde cruise terminal at German Rostock Port welcomed this Wednesday two large cruise ships – Holland America Line’s newest ship ms Koningsdam and Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Eclipse. For the first time, the ms Koningsdam was heading to the mouth of river Warnow on its way from Copenhagen to T
Søren Skou has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of A.P. Møller – Mærsk, replacing Nils S. Andersen, who will leave the Maersk Group, effective July 1, 2016.
Shipping company Vroon has taken delivery of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel VOS Challenge in China. According to the company, the vessel left Fujian Southeast Shipyard (FSES) in Fuzhou, China on Thursday, June 23 at the start of her journey to Thailand, where she will be delivered to c
Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) Ireland has been selected for European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme funding to advance its hydrokinetic technology. Through the MaREI Centre in the environmental Research Institute, University College Cork (UCC), lab testing will be conducted at the Lir Na
UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has brought operators and the supply chain together to uncover solutions applicable to the Southern North Sea’s (SNS) well plug and abandonment (P&A) market at its first hackathon event held on Thursday in Aberdeen. As oil and gas fields approach end of life, P&A is
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has been served with an improvement notice by the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) over last year’s hydrocarbon leak on the company’s unmanned installation in the UK sector of the North Sea. Following a gas leak on Shell’s Caravel, a fixed, normally-unattended insta
Ulstein Verft today delivered a service operation vessel (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte in 2015 to operate on Siemens’ offshore wind projects. The SOV is the first of two being constructed for Bernhard Schulte Offshore and chartered out to Siemens Wind Power Service. It will be deployed at the Ge
A four-year-long dispute between Lithuania and Russia’s gas giant Gazprom has ended with the court ruling against the Baltic country, which filed a €1.5bn ($1.7bn) claim over gas pricing.
The Northwest Seaport Alliance’s (NWSA) volumes recovered in May after last year’s unusual trade patterns during contract negotiations. Full containerized exports continued to recover, growing 12 percent year to date to 382,295 TEUs. Full imports are flat at year to date at 520,215 TEUs. Imports hav
Due to the large volume of international maritime trade passing through the South China Sea, the European Commission said that freedom of navigation and overflight must remain in the area. As China continues constructing islands in the area, the EU expressed its concerns about the situation in the E
BIMCO has published three standard novation agreements that provide a legal framework to change one of the original parties to a contract. Corporate changes such as restructuring, sale of a company or sale of part of a company’s interests may make it necessary to replace an original contracting part
Israel’s Delek Group has informed that it has been given until August 1 to provide a final commitment to developing the Hanna block in the Mediterranean Sea, containing the Dolphin natural gas reservoir. The company said on Wednesday that Israel’s Petroleum Commissioner has filed the request in resp
Norway’s offshore security watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has identified multiple regulation breaches during its investigation of the well-control incident at Statoil’s Visund A platform in the Norwegian North Sea. Statoil, who is the operator of the Visund field, shut down producti
Two candidates have signed contracts with Atlas Professionals for DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm, where they will be working as Site Technicians on rotation for two years. In April, Atlas hosted an offshore wind recruitment day on behalf of DONG Energy at the Grimsby Institute in the UK,
