IHC Holland Merwede BV has confirmed that its subsidiary Merwede Shipyard received a contract for the design and construction of a multi-purpose offshore support vessel for Hornbeck Offshore Services in the US.
All 19 crew aboard a Panamanian ship which sank in the Arabian Sea yesterday in bad weather were rescued by a passing vessel, the official Yemeni news agency Saba said.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today announced it has won a contract valued at over $94.95 million for construction of two ships from BigLift Shipping BV of the Netherlands, which is a part of the Spliethoff Group.
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. has received orders worth $275 million to build three bulk ships for two Greek companies, it said Thursday.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co, the world’s third-largest shipbuilder by sales, said it has obtained a combined 800 mln usd worth of orders from two international customers.
Operator Statoil and partner Sonatrach have completed and tested exploration well number two in the Hassi Mouina licence, in the Sahara Desert in Algeria.
A frame contract for work at Norway’s Kårstø gas processing complex and on the two Draupner riser platforms has been placed with the D&F Group by Statoil on behalf of Gassco. The NOK 640 million contract runs for five years from 2007 to 2011 and covers replacement of insulation and surface treatment
A new Indian Navy ship — the INS Jalashwa — will be commissioned Friday at Naval Station Norfolk. The Jalashwa was formerly the USS Trenton, an amphibious transport dock ship.
A fisherman fell off his boat fourteen miles from the Brevard County Coast, and was left floating in the water for hours, without a life vest Wednesday. Someone on board a passing casino cruise ship spotted him and the crew on board managed to bring him in alive. Olin Kennedy said he is not going [&
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he had signed a decree to merge two leading tanker companies, Sovkomflot and Novoship, in a bid to raise the shipping sector’s international competitiveness.
4Yacht, Inc, a professional yacht brokerage firm, with offices around the world, recently consummated the successful sale of the megayacht, Mustang Sally, a 157’ 2005 Trinity Motoryacht.
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The Quonset Development Corporation has given its preliminary approval to a 43-acre megayacht construction and repair facility proposed by Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Island Global Yachting.
Transocean Inc. (NYSE:RIG) today announced that a subsidiary of BP PLC (NYSE:BP) has awarded a subsidiary of Transocean a drilling contract for an enhanced Enterprise-class design newbuild drillship with modified specifications for expected operations offshore Angola for which BP is the operator. Th
Rescue teams trying to find a skipper missing from his tug boat have called off the search for the night. The man has not been seen since Wednesday night and it is believed he may have fallen overboard from the tug, moored on the River Crouch, Essex.
