The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Royal Norwegian Embassy jointly organised the Sustainable Marine Transportation Conference 2014 on Tuesday, 8 April 2014. The Singapore Maritime Institute, Research Council of Norway and Norwegian Business Association have also participated
The naming ceremony for “PGN FSRU Lampung”, the second of four large and modern FSRUs that Höegh LNG has under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries, took place on 7 April 2014. PGN FSRU Lampung will serve the Lampung FSRU project that will be located in Lampung, on the southern tip of Sumatra in
Rolls-Royce is to deliver deck machinery and engines to an arctic Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessel (AHTS) to be built by Vard for Bourbon Offshore Norway. The contract has a value in excess of £17M for Rolls-Royce. The deck machinery delivery from Rolls-Royce will consist of anchor handling winches
PETRONAS has launched the hull of its first floating liquefied natural gas (PFLNG 1) facility at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. The facility, scheduled to be completed in Quarter 4 of 2015, will be the world’s first floating LNG facility in operati
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won a run of orders for bulk versions of its cargo handling cranes from five Chinese shipyards. The cranes are destined for 15 bulk carriers for various owners. The orders were booked in the first quarter 2014 order intake and include: Two 37,500 dwt bulkers on order
Petrobras has commenced the removal of the hull of P-66 platform in the Rio Grande Shipyard, Brazil. The operation required dredging to open the gate, which was conducted by LUSCHI. “About 30,000 cubic meters of sediment were dredged in less than 20 days using a hopper dredge and a very powerful sub
Last Friday, a shipment that left China seven weeks ago carrying 13 new Damen Stan Pontoons and 10 other Damen vessels arrived in Rotterdam. Damen has sold 37 pontoons and barges in the last two years. Production has increased with an even larger amount of vessels currently under construction at fou
Maritime industry leaders have today called for greater collaboration and consolidation in Asia to tackle challenges such as the rise over capacity, talent shortages and environmental sustainability, which are impacting the potential of the industry. Speaking at an industry insights briefing today a
It’s been a positive 2013 for Rüdiger Pallentin and Carsten J. Haake, Chairmen of Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG and, as Lloyd Werft claims, there will be no major obstacles this year that the company, re-organised a good year ago, would not be able to tackle. “We are already well-booked until October”,
Two Missing after Ship Collision off Spain Singapore-flagged car carrier Baltic Breeze collided with a Spanish fishing vessel near the Port of Vigo, Spain Tuesday morning. Universal Marine Orders Four Boxships Dutch shipper Universal Marine has placed an order, its biggest yet, for four 2,350 TEU co
After four weeks of towing from Turkey, the first hull of the characteristic Havyard’s WE design arrived today at Leirvik shipyard for final outfitting. Havyard’s newbuild 120 “Polarsyssel”, is scheduled for delivery to the Icelandic shipping company Fafnir Offshore in late August 2014. The newbuild
Today, IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee has reached agreement on the entry into force date of new, stricter requirements for ships’ emission of NOx in emission control areas (NECAs). At the last session of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee, uncertainty arose about the entr
Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) has won contracts to deliver its HVAC systems to four Chinese shipyards. The HVAC system are for: Four bulk carriers being built at Jinling Shipyard scheduled for delivery between September 2015 and June 2016 Eight bulk carriers being built at Yangfan Group’s Zho
A cargo ship sailing under the Mongolian flag has sunk earlier today some 63 km off the coast of Yeosu, South Korea due to jet unknown reasons, Xinhua news agency reports. There were 16 North Korean sailors onboard the ship Grand Fortune 1, which was en route to the Chinese port of Changdao in Shand
