
BW Offshore has inked a deal to recycle one of its FPSOs at a yard in India, as part of its strategy to optimise its current asset portfolio.

U.S. offshore safety and environmental enforcement agency has conducted an inspection of Murphy Oil’s King’s Quay platform.

Swedish shipping company Erik Thun Group has ordered two new dry cargo vessels from Dutch shipyard Ferus Smit in an effort to replace some of the existing vessels with newbuilds.

Wärtsilä has signed an optimised maintenance agreement with the Canadian ferry operator STQ for two LNG-fueled ferries.

Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured new contracts from repeat customers with a total value estimated at about $186 million.

Japanese bunkering vessel Techno Star has been successfully operated using biodiesel fuel (BDF) supplied by Aburatou Shoji K.K.

MMA Offshore has been awarded a long-term contract for one of its platform supply vessels by Inpex for operations offshore Australia.

Mermaid Subsea Services has entered into a two-year charter-in contract for the DP2 diving support construction vessel (DSCV) Van Gogh. The vessel, already delivered to Mermaid Subsea Services, will be immediately deployed to support the company’s subsea projects. Van Gogh will undertake inspection,

Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed a charter contract for a newbuilding ice-breaking tanker to serve Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project.

At least three people have reportedly died following an explosion of the FPSO Trinity Spirit in waters off Nigeria.

Petrobras and Yinson have signed the contracts for the chartering and provision of FPSO services for the Jubarte field offshore Brazil.

A Japanese consortium including shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has completed a sea trial of autonomous sailing using a large commercial coastal car ferry, in a voyage from the Tomakomai Port, Hokkaido Prefecture to the Oarai Port, Ibaraki Prefecture.

German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd plans to deploy the first of its twelve new 23,500+ TEU vessels in 2023, Lutz-Michael Dyck, Senior Director Strategic Asset Projects at Hapag-Lloyd, confirmed.

Swedish tanker shipping company Concordia Maritime has launched a technical design study on the conversion of a tanker to a container vessel.