Customs officers have found around 500 kilograms of cocaine on board a bulker that recently arrived in the Port of Hamburg.
Australian authorities have detained a bulker identified as African Heron for carrying high sulfur fuel oil. “The vessel was found to have non-compliant fuel oil on board with sulphur content above 0.5%. This is not permitted under the carriage ban on non-compliant fuel in Annex VI of MARPOL that ca
DNV GL and Alpha Ori Technologies (AOT) have signed MoU in which they agree to work together to contribute to the marine industry’s ongoing digital transformation.
The walk-to-work vessel Wind Innovation is currently deployed at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in Germany, where a wind turbine upgrade campaign is underway. During the last week of April, the vessel mobilised for the project at DHSS support base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, according
Swan Hunter has delivered a full project management, design engineering, and mobilisation support package for Oceanteam. This allowed Oceanteam Solutions to execute a cable transpooling job with its cable transportation and handling barge. Swan Hunter designed a fully flexible deck layout allowing c
Wintershall Dea has installed two manifolds in the templates on the seabed of its Nova field project located offshore Norway.
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has entered into medium-term contracts for six of its vessels with undisclosed clients.
Gulf Agency Company (GAC) has partnered with Singapore-based start-up F-drones to develop large-scale drones that can deliver up to 100kg of supplies over 100km to vessels and offshore platforms. The international ship agency said that testing was underway on F-drones’ 3rd prototype that is capable
Over the past five days, a total of 16 seafarers were kidnapped by pirates off the coast of West Africa, marking a continuation of rampant pirate activity in the region. Ten mariners were kidnapped in an attack reported by Dryad on April 30, when pirates boarded Panama-flagged oil products tanker MT
Keppel Nantong Shipyard in China has recently launched the second liquefied natural gas vessel for small-scale player Avenir LNG. The 7500 cubic meter LNG carrier with a ship-to-ship bunkering capability was launched on April 11, according to the Italian ship designer Marine Engineering Services. Lo
LNG shipping company Flex LNG said its newbuild carrier Flex Artemis, under construction at DSME in South Korea, is ready for sea trials.
Abu Dhabi-based Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has turned down a USD 32 million takeover offer from Seafox International saying that the offer ”fundamentally undervalues GMS”. As reported earlier, Seafox submitted an unsolicited and non-binding possible cash offer for the entire issued and to be issued
The heavy load carrier OHT Osprey has arrived in the Port of Nigg with the first eight jacket foundations for the Moray East offshore wind farm. The jackets, manufactured by Lamprell in the United Arab Emirates, are the first of the total of 45 that the company will ship to the UK for the Moray [&he
China Merchant Heavy Industry (CMHI) has ordered 6 × MAN 12V32/44CR main engines for Jan De Nul’s 5,000-tonne floating installation crane vessel Les Alizés. Les Alizés will be built at CMHI’s shipyard in Jiangsu province, eastern China, and is scheduled for delivery in 2022. Lex Nijsen, Head of Four
