
Norwegian shipping company Solstad Offshore (SOFF) has received board approval for an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) from its fleet to carry out a multi-year assignment with Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras.

Construction of Lucia Cosulich, the second methanol-ready IMO II bunker tanker for Italy’s maritime transportation group Fratelli Cosulich, has begun at Taizhou Maple Leaf Shipyard in China.