PD Ports’ parent, Canadian-owned equity firm Brookfield Asset Management, is to pump £29m into expanding facilities on Teesside, having… [mappress] Source: nebusiness, June 22, 2010;
South Korea said today its LNG imports rose 56% year on year in May to 1.96 million tonnes… [mappress] Source: fairplay, June 21, 2010;
Golar LNG Limited (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the completion of the refinancing of Golar Freeze with a syndicate of banks for an amount of USD125 million. DnB Nor Bank, CitiGroup and DVB Bank acted as Lead Arrangers with Eksportfinans ASA also as a lender with guarantee from GEIK. DnB Nor
Soon, either Chennai or Ennore port may go for carbon footprinting as a pilot project. It is planned to determine Green House Gas (GHG) emission sources, track emission trends and generate information needed to take steps for reduction. The Mercantile Marine Department of the Ministry of Shipping an
When it comes to cruise ships, it’s the more, the merrier at many ports. But that’s not the case for Rockland, Maine. The Bangor Daily News reports the popular New England tourist town’s City Council is weighing a plan to sharply limit cruise ship arrivals and raise fees for the ships that do visit.
As we reported last week today is the first day of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) conference on the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers. The 1978 STCW Convention was established to formulate basic standard requirements for international ships crews an
A major Coastal Zone Management permit renewal for a dock at the Westin Resort on St. John was approved by the Senate Environmental Protection Committee on Friday. The renewal of the 20-year CZM permit is for the existing 180-foot dock in Great Cruz Bay.
A Deepwater Horizon rig worker said he identified a leak in the oil rig’s safety equipment weeks before the explosion in April, it has been revealed. Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Tyrone Benton said the leak was not fixed at the time, but that instead the faulty blowout preventer was shut down. T
Five ships, taking in 177 ports in 55 countries, with 95 separate holidays to choose from, the new 2011/12 world cruise programme from P&O Cruises is its most expansive ever. World cruise expert P&O Cruises is offering five world cruises, 18 line voyages and 72 shorter cruise holidays, departing in
Filling of water to the new Hambantota Port basin will take place on August first. This deep sea port in southern Hambantota is being built… [mappress] Source: news , June 21, 2010;
The new chairman of the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), M L Meena, having taken over the position that has remained vacant for almost a year, has… [mappress] Source: sify, June 21, 2010;
Economists have called for the cancellation of a contract signed between the government and French oil and gas group Total, the main shareho… [mappress] Source: yementimes, June 21, 2010;
Bollinger Marine Fabricators, L.L.C., Amelia, La., a Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. company, has delivered Bollinger hull # 561, B. No. 264, a double hull 60,000 BBL oil tank barge built to meet the requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA’90) to Bouchard Ocean Services, Inc., Melville, N.Y.
The offshore companies Subsea 7 and Acergy merge. The new entity, to be named Subsea 7, has a market value of USD 5.4 billion, a global organisation of 12,000 people and a backlog of USD 5.3 billion. The fusion will generate annual synergies of at least USD 100 million. The board will be chaired by
