The first of two 47.5 metre passenger catamaran ferries for New World First Ferry (Macau) has been launched at Austal Tasmania, marking a historic milestone for the growing shipyard. With new orders for the shipyard currently being finalised and a workforce which has grown from 40 to more than 120 d
Sky Petroleum, Inc., an oil and gas company, today reported that during the first quarter ending March 31, 2008 Mubarek production from the H2 and K2- ST 4 wells was 30,922 barrels of oil. The Mubarek H2 well produced 9,144 barrels of oil or 101 bopd and the Mubarek K2-ST4 well produced 21,778 barre
The former Sealift/Frontline Suezmax tanker ‘Marble’, now owned by a subsidiary of Dockwise Ltd., and renamed “Triumph”, has been accepted by Cosco Guangdong Shipyard on April 18, 2008. The conversion into a heavy lift vessel has started immediately by placing the vessel in drydock.
The first luxury liner of Invergordon’s cruise ship season has arrived in the port on the Cromarty Firth. The Celebrity Constellation and its 2,000 passengers was the first of 50 ships and 44,000 tourists expected to visit the town this year.
Seven pirates have been given life sentences for seizing a United Arab Emirates ship last week by a court in Somalia’s northern Puntland region. Another four were given similar sentences for helping the pirates.
Pirates have released a Spanish fishing boat and its 26 crew members seized off the coast of Somalia last week. The Playa de Bakio, a Basque tuna fishing boat, was released along with all of its crew on Saturday, the Spanish government says.
BW Offshore has been awarded a Letter of Intent with Petrobras for the conversion and operation of the first production unit to the giant Tupi field in Brazil. BW Offshore has been awarded a Letter of Intent (LOI) to supply the Tupi TLD FPSO to Petrobras. BW Offshore will use the FPSO BW Peace, set
One of the world’s largest cruise ships has arrived in the UK for the first time ahead of its naming ceremony. It will be named in Southampton next Wednesday will sail to and from the city all summer.
Wärtsilä has acquired the Danish company International Combustion Engineering A/S (I.C.E.). I.C.E. specializes in project engineering and the service and repair of steam boilers and ancillary burner systems. The company has its headquarters in Aalborg, Denmark. The acquisition of I.C.E. will expand
The deal is for a newly built Skandi TBN AH 04 CD vessel, developed by Aker Yards. The contract has three one-year extension options. The new boat is scheduled for delivery from the shipyard in December 2009, but will likely go out on the spot market for a few months before starting its contract wit
Looking at the record levels at which new ships were ordered globally in past two years, there would be a slowdown in fresh contracts in 2008, according to the Llyods Register Group. The last two years have seen unprecedented levels of ship contracts, where calendar year 2007 saw 164.8 million gross
In their haste to get the ships into the water, the Navy and contractors redesigned and built them at the same time — akin to building an office tower while reworking the blueprints. To meet its deadline, Lockheed abandoned the normal sequence of shipbuilding steps: instead of largely finishing sect
The world’s biggest cruise ship arrives in port on Friday to become the largest vessel ever to be based in Britain. The brand new 160,000 tonnes Independence of the Seas will operate throughout the summer from Southampton.
Chinese ship laden with weapons for Zimbabwe is heading home after being refused permission to dock in four African nations. Beijing said that the An Yue Jiang had been unable to fulfil its contract to deliver 77 tons of arms, including bullets, mortar bombs, grenades and assault rifles.
