World Marine Offshore has acquired all vessels and activities from KEM Offshore. WMO Support A/S, a newly formed entity and a stand-alone company within the World Marine Offshore Group, will acquire KEM’s fleet of 8 vessels. The fleet will be operated and managed on day-to-day from its offices in De
Ørsted has signed a 15-year charter contract with Ta San Shang Marine for the world’s first Taiwan-flagged service operation vessel (SOV).
Germany and other European countries would allow cruise lines to pause their repayments of export credit guarantees for one year.
Ventus Marine’s service accommodation transfer vessel (SATV) Ventus Formosa has begun its charter on the Formosa 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. The joint venture of PSA Marine and its Taiwanese partner Ta Tong Marine Group took delivery of the 36-meter purpose-built SATV earlier this year. Ventu
Remontowa Shiprepair Yard S.A. has just completed repairs of the backhoe dredger Nordic Giant. According to the company, the scope of works on this Boskalis-owned dredger consisted of hull maintenance, painting and dredger equipment repairs. Worth to mention is that Nordic Giant was built in 1999. T
Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC), part of Norway’s shipping company Torvald Klaveness, has found work for one of its CLEANBU ships.
Finnish shipping company Lundqvist Rederierna has ordered a liquefied natural gas-powered Aframax tanker from Japan’s Sumitomo Heavy Industries. The 112,000-deadweight-tonnage ship is scheduled for delivery by January 2022, according to Lundqvist Rederierna. Lundqvist Rederierna did not reveal the p
Finnish technology company Wärtsilä has won a contract to update ECDIS on board 50 tankers that frequently sail in the Baltic Sea.
Spanish shipping company Baleària wrapped up 2019 with turnover and EBITDA growth of 19 per cent.
A total of 140 crew members of the cruise ship Ruby Princess, which is still docked in Australian waters, have tested positive for COVID-19. The figure is being revealed after 13 more crew members tested positive to the virus in the latest round of testing, data from the New South Wales Ministry of
Houlder, a London-based design & engineering consultancy for the marine, energy and defence markets, has commenced work in partnership with PMW Technology on a study to evaluate the potential marine applications of carbon capture technology. PMW Technology is among the latest organisations to receiv
Around one third of cargo is estimated to have been removed from the grounded Norwegian ship Kaami off the coast of Scotland.
Belgian tanker shipping company Euronav has sold the eldest vessel in its fleet, the 2001-built Suezmax Cap Diamant for USD 20.8 million. The tanker owner and operator said that the capital gain on the sale of approximately USD 13 million will be recorded during the current quarter. The vessel has b
A Hong Kong-flagged vessel was boarded by unidentified armed men in the Gulf of Oman.
