TANJUNG Offshore Bhd , an integrated oil and gas (O&G) service provider, is bidding for over 50 O&G services contracts worth a combined… [mappress] Source: btimes, June 1, 2010;
A U.S. regulator and the European Union’s competition watchdog are monitoring the world’s top container shipping lines for any evidence of price fixing. The scrutiny comes as the prices shipping lines charge have kept rising even as the industry’s supply of new ships has continued to increase sharpl
Ferries and cruise ships were stranded at Greek ports yester day as seamen staged a 24-hour strike against a government decision to lift restrictions on vessels docking with foreign crews, port officials said. Bookings to Greece are already down this year following a wave of strikes and sometimes vi
Engel & Völkers Yachting GmbH in Hamburg and Equisea Yacht Management have entered into a dedicated collaboration agreement. The aim is to create synergies between a unique high standard service system in yacht sales and charter brokerage, capitalizing on a growing international network of licence p
SBM Offshore N.V. is pleased to announce that one of its Affiliates and Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.A., have received a Letter Of Intent from PETROBRAS NETHERLANDS B.V.and PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. – PETROBRAS as Operator of the Consortium BM-S-11, established by companies PETROBRAS (65%), BG E&P do
On Saturday evening, 29 of May, the Seychelles Coast Guard disrupted a Pirate Action Group, including a mother ship with nine suspected pirates on board and two fast attack skiffs, after being led to the target by an EU NAVFOR maritime patrol aircraft from the Swedish Coast Guard.
With the establishment of Blue Offshore a specialist marine engineering contractor has entered the subsea cable installation market with the focus on the development of the world’s wind and tidal potential. Blue Offshore will initially provide subsea cable installation services for offshore wind far
Stena Bulk has added one more Suezmax tanker to its series at Samsung in South Korea, bringing it to seven vessels, six ordered by Stena Bulk and one by the sister company Concordia Maritime. The now ordered 158,000-DWT tanker will as its sisters enter service with the Stena Sonangol Suezmax pool wh
DAMEN is well-known worldwide for its “standardisation concept” but recently the Dutch shipyard group embarked on a truly unique project when it was asked to develop an unusual composite vessel. Unusually, this challenging project actually started when DAMEN entered an international competition held
Van Oord has been awarded the contract to perform maintenance dredging in the port of Beira, Mozambique. The customer is CFM (Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique). The contract value amounts to some EUR 37 million. The work has begun in April 2010 and will take approximately eighteen months to
Grants worth almost £1 million have been awarded to a number of English fishing companies from the European Fisheries Fund and Marine Management Organisation, formerly the Marine and Fisheries Agency. The largest single grant totalled more than £422,000 for a new fryline extension at a seafood compa
SBM Offshore N.V. is pleased to announce that one of its Affiliates and Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.A. (QGOG), have received a Letter Of Intent (LOI) from PETROBRAS NETHERLANDS B.V. (PNBV) and PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. – PETROBRAS as Operator of the Consortium BM-S-11, established by companies PETROB
In May 2010 Euro Container Line (ECL) extended their schedule to call Rotterdam Shortsea Terminals with their West Norwegian service. This to connect directly with the wide network in the Shortsea container industry in Rotterdam. The vessels which will be used are mv ECL Commander ( 4635 dwt / 384 t
BP today provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico. This follows an announcement on May 29 to move to the next step in the subsea operations. Subsea Source Control and Containment Preparations are ongoing for deployment of the lower marin
