Transocean Inc. today announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 (formerly Deepwater Pacific 2), which is owned by a joint venture in which the company has 50 percent interest, has been awarded a five-year drilling contract from Reliance Industries. The contract is expected
A giant crane which will be used to help build a wind farm off the north Wales coast is expected to anchor after high winds forced a delay. The 80m (262ft) crane – known as the Svanen – has been brought in to lay foundations off Rhyl, Denbighshire.
The latest episode in Campbell Field’s long association with the Whitbread/Volvo could feature in one of those daytime television shows where a family uproots, pets included, and relocates to a foreign land. In this scenario Field takes up the job of shore manager to the Spanish team.
Cruise liner passengers who had been stranded in Madeira for two days at the end of a three-month cruise are back in British waters – a day late. Nearly 500 holidaymakers on the MV Van Gogh were in the Portuguese island port of Funchal from Tuesday as a result of a legal dispute.
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore load handling solutions has received significant bulk handling crane orders. Altogether 276 cranes will be delivered during 2009-2011 and the value of the orders is more than EUR 90 million. The orders have been booked i
The three process modules for the FPSO Sevan Voyageur have left the GKSI shipyard at Karmøy, Norway onboard a barge, heading for the Keppel Verolme shipyard in Rotterdam. Estimated time of arrival is Saturday April 5, 2008. The delivery was according to schedule.
According to Mr Zhang Jiaguo chief analyst with the economic research center of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, China’s demand for shipbuilding steel would come to 41.52 million tonnes during 2006 to 2010, 8.3 million tonnes on average annually and during 2011 to 2015 and the figure will to
Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd (Nakilat) and Qatar Shipping Company (Q-Ship) will name the first of two in a series of four Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) carriers at a naming ceremony to be held at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd (HHI) located at Mipo Bay, Ulsan City, South Korea.
She was known for taking to the skies, but this weekend Amelia Earhart will take to the seas. The Navy will christen the USS Amelia Earhart on Sunday at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.
SkySails’ first cargo ship, with a huge computer-controlled kite, was recently flagged off by Eva Luise Koehler, wife of German President Horst Koehler. The ship MV Beluga SkySails started its maiden voyage from the city of Bremerhaven, Germany to South & North America (and back) and the SkySails-Sy
Wednesday morning finally saw some America’s Cup activity in Valencia, not related to the infamous legal case in New York, even if one could argue about its relation to the world’s oldest sports event.
With about four feet to spare, a 16-story crane sneaked under the Columbia River bridge at Astoria Bridge on Thursday. The passage came in the dark, with fog, at 5:30 a.m. For a few bleary-eyed onlookers, a glimmer of light atop the Chinese ship Zhen Hua 17 gave the only indication of just how close
A UK cruise ship detained by police in Madeira in a dispute over a £2 million debt is to be released. The Van Gogh, which has about 460 passengers on board, was held on Tuesday shortly after it came into Funchal port in the Portuguese isles.
Experts who found the wreck of the HMAS Sydney, the Australian ship sunk during World War II, have released pictures of the vessel on the ocean floor. The Sydney was sunk by a German ship in 1941, with the loss of all 645 sailors on board.
