Dredging concern Royal Boskalis Westminster nv placed an order today with the Chinese shipyard Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited for the construction of an offshore fallpipe vessel of 21,500 tons. The order is part of the multi-year fleet expansion program at Boskalis. The ship will be completed by sp
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (NYSE: GNK) today announced that it has taken delivery of the Genco Titus, a 177,000 dwt Capesize newbuilding. The Genco Titus is the fourth vessel to be delivered to the Company under Genco’s previously announced agreement on July 18, 2007 to acquire nine Capesize v
Aker Kvaerner takes further strides into the Chinese market by signing two deals with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). One contract is for the delivery of a complete marine drilling riser system and associated equipment, while the other is for delivery of mooring equipment to a new d
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE: COG) today announced additional horizontal drilling success at its County Line project in east Texas, along with news on horizontal drilling from its shale program in West Virginia. Cabot continues to expand the County Line James field with another successful compl
StatoilHydro has signed an agreement with CHC Helikopter Service for a new Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter for the Oseberg/Troll area. The contract means that StatoilHydro will now deploy the new EC225 Super Puma model from Eurocopters.
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Palmali Group shipping company has put into operation “Suezmax” tanker that replenished its overall fleet deadweight. The Company reported that the vessel was named in honor of national leader Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan.
The US is calling for a ban on the fishing of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. A three-to-five-years ban is being proposed to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat).
BP, on behalf of the Shah Deniz partnership, announced today a further major new gas-condensate discovery in the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea. The SDX-04 appraisal and exploration well, some 70 kilometres south east of Baku, discovered a new high pressure reservoir in a deeper structure below
A container ship, the MSC Pillar, which was on its way to Tin Can Island Port, has run into another ship on anchorage, inflicting severe damage on the vessel at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa.
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, the organising club of the Rolex Sydney Hobart, today confirmed that due to a discrepancy which crept into the figures some decades ago, there are in fact two yachtsmen lining up this year to equal the late John Bennetto’s record of 44 races.
Fishermen will, in fact, be able to open this year’s crab season after all despite a state order Tuesday that put commercial and sport fishing on hold in the San Francisco Bay.
Ha Long Shipyard yesterday successfully launched a container ship in northern Quang Ninh Province with its capacity of 1,750 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU), which is the biggest container ship ever built in Vietnam.
Marg Constructions Ltd has announced the arrival of its acquisition – A Cutter Suction Dredger named ‘MARG CAUVERY’. MARG CAUVERY with a dredging capacity of 2000 cubm/hour arrived in India on November 09, 2007 and would be immediately deployed in the dredging works of Karaikal Port which is current
Ports Minister Joe Tripodi has announced Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia Pty Limited has been selected to act as an independent auditor overseeing design and construction on the NSW Government’s $1 billion Port Botany expansion. Mr Tripodi said the internationally experienced engineering and environm
