A new £300m cruise ship, which will eventually replace the QE2, has arrived in Southampton ahead of a naming ceremony. Queen Victoria travelled up Southampton Water and docked at 0930 GMT.
Stealthgas Inc., a ship owning company serving primarily the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector of the international shipping industry, announced today that is has entered into contracts to acquire, from an unaffiliated party, two new 47,000 deadweight M.R. type product tankers ex yard for deliver
Hiab, the business area providing load handling solutions within Cargotec, has secured a significant order for 157 hooklifts from MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG. The hooklifts will be installed onto MAN trucks and supplied to the German Defense Forces. The delivery of the hooklifts will start immediately and
A 75,000 tonne bulk carrier that has been stuck in mud off Gladstone, in central Queensland, since the weekend, has been refloated. The Endeavour River ran aground on Sunday, while bringing a load of bauxite from Weipa on Cape York.
A large oil tanker was gushing thousands of tonnes of oil off South Korea’s west coast today after being hit a barge, South Korea’s maritime ministry said. The Hong Kong-registered Hebei Spirit was struck while at anchor off Daesan port in the Taean region and the ministry said it had already leaked
StatoilHydro, who is operator for the rich gas pipeline from the Kvitebjørn and Visund fields to Kollsnes near Bergen, has decided to repair the line. Repair work will be carried out in 2008 and gas export from the two fields is halted while work is undertaken.
At the end of November, 31 exploration wells had been spudded on the Norwegian shelf. In comparison, only 26 exploration wells were spudded in all of 2006. The explanation for this increase lies in better access to exploration rigs.
Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) has completed the upgrade and modification of FPSO Armada Perkasa for repeat customer Bumi Armada. A ceremony was held for the sail–away of the vessel for its deployment in the Okoro Setu Fields, Nigeria. Gracing the occasion was Mr Olatunde Emmanuel Odusina, Mi
StatoilHydro is today, Friday 7 December publishing its forecast for the company’s combined oil and gas production, capital expenditure and exploration expenditure in 2008.
The contract to overhaul one of the Ministry of Defence’s warships has been awarded to a dockyard in Rosyth. Babcock Marine will take charge of the refit of type 23 frigate HMS Sutherland as part of a £17m deal.
THE 87-year-old sailing ship thought to have been missing between Vanuatu and New Zealand has been found. A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion aircraft found the three-masted former cargo vessel, the Alvei, yesterday morning, about 760km north of New Zealand’s north island.
South Korea’s STX Shipbuilding Co said on Thursday it had won a $270 million order from The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd to build six bulk carriers.
State officials today issued formal misconduct charges against the pilot involved in the Nov. 7 San Francisco Bay oil spill that sent 58,000 gallons of fuel into the water and fouled 40 miles of shoreline from Oakland to Bolinas.
Prosafe has received an amendment to the existing contract with Total E & P UK Limited and Elf Exploration UK Limited exercising the one year option for the provision of Safe Caledonia.
