On the weekend of 11-12 July 2009, RWE npower renewables’ Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm is expected to generate power for the first time from its location off the north Wales coast. Weather permitting, the first of the wind farm’s 25 turbines will export its first power to shore as construction work
From the top of Singapore’s Equinox bar you can see the city skyline and ship after ship after ship. Singapore claims to be the busiest port in the world. About 130,000 ships arrive there each year. But these days, the problem is many of those vessels are not putting back out to sea.
China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry and the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard are at loggerheads to win a contract from the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC). The contract for six VLCCs at US$120 million per vessel, is said to be slightly lower than current market price estimates from Clarksons.
The United Industrial Corporation (OPK) has recently begun work in St Petersburg for the world’s first floating nuclear power plant. Under a February 2009 contract signed between OPK and Concern Energoatom, shipyards in St Petersburg will construct, launch, rebuild and test the power plant.
Suil Na Mara Offshore Review reports that Bard Schiffsbetriebs GmbH & Co Natalie KG are believed to be the buyers of the ME202 design PSV Ocean Scotsman, originally delivered in 1982 from the Singapore Slipway yard as Seaforth Monarch.
Egyptian officials say 25 militants suspected of having al-Qaeda links have been arrested for plotting attacks on ships in the Suez Canal. The interior ministry said the alleged militant cell was led by a Palestinian and the other members were Egyptians.
Since October 2008 the number of services between the Far East and Northwest Europe declined with eleven. Only two of the present 25 weekly services do not call in Rotterdam: the Japan focussed Grand Alliance service (Benelux call in Amsterdam) and the Lion Service of MSC makes an iirregular Benelux
The SeaGen tidal energy system, developed and deployed by Marine Current Turbines, has become the first marine renewable energy project to be accredited by OFGEM for Renewable Energy Certificates (ROCs). ROCs require electricity suppliers to source a percentage of the electricity they supply from re
Yacht builder Beneteau has said that the yearly traditional peak time has this year seen a 28.4 percent decrease in sales. The builder said that it was confident that there would be an upturn in the pleasure cruising markets and that its business would grow in the 2010 season.
This year, the two northern inland terminals of Groningen and Meppel expect to equal the 2008 throughput of some 50,000 containers (approx. 80,000 TEU). Both terminals are connected to Rotterdam by two inland vessels of 156 TEU, calling four times a week. Some 45 trucks are taking care of the transp
Norway’s Havyard Group has signed contract for building of a Havyard 515 purse seiner for a Norwegian owner. The ship will be built at Havyard Tomrefjord for delivery December 2010. The contract value is US$20 million.
The Bharati Shipyard, India, has reported a net earning for the twelve months ended March 31 at US$27.2 million compared with US$21.9 million the year before. Revenues were up from US$13.1 million to US$19 million.
The global head of DVB Transport, Richard Jansen, said that orders for new cruise ships would resume in 2010. “I would be surprised if we didn’t see a few orders at some point in 2010. It may not be the right time yet, but those lines thinking about newbuildings may leave the yards on the […]
The Ter Haak Group has selected Tideworks Technology® Inc., a leading provider of full-service terminal management and planning software solutions, to upgrade its terminal operating platform. As one of the fastest growing stevedoring companies in the Port of Amsterdam, the Ter Haak Group’s Amerikaha
