North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) will, over the next few days, begin maintenance dredging at the Port of Weipa. According to the NQBP announcement, the dredge vessel TSHD Brisbane will work within the port’s south channel and inner harbor between 5 April and 30 April 2018 inclusive. NQ
Van Oord and Bolier have signed their first extensive ‘Power by the Hour’ service contract for all MaK medium-speed-diesel engines aboard the Subsea Rock Installation vessel Bravenes. By signing the new contract, Bolier and Van Oord take their close and long-lasting collaboration to the next lev
French LNG containment specialist, GTT, has been contracted to deliver its membrane containment system for a new carrier being built by Samsung Heavy Industries.
The United Kingdom is expected to receive two liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes from Trinidad and Tobago’s Point Fortin plant next week, port and shipping data showed on Wednesday. Teekay’s 135,243-cbm LNG carrier Madrid Spirit is scheduled to arrive at the Dragon LNG terminal located in the Port
South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries has received approval in principle from UK-based classification society Lloyd’s Register for an LNG-fuelled 250,000 dwt class very large ore carrier. To remind, Anangel, Woodside, Lloyd’s Register and Hyundai Heavy started a joint development
A keel laying ceremony was held on March 24 for Stolt-Nielsen’s two small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers at the Keppel Nantong Shipyard in China. The two 7,500-cbm capacity LNG carriers, currently known as hull H400 and H401, will also have ship-to-ship bunkering capability. To remind, K
A customized Damen cutter suction dredger – type CSD500 – has arrived on site at Port of Umm Qasr, Iraq. The dredger was named recently by her owner, Basra Gateway Terminal (BTG), at the Damen Dredging yard in the Netherlands. Immediately after the ceremony, the dredger was made ready for transport
Finish technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to its technology for two new LNG-fueled shuttle tankers being built for Singapore-based AET Tankers at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea.
Lundin Norway has contracted Island Offshore’s LNG-powered platform supply vessels (PSV) for its operations on the Norwegian continental shelf.
New York-listed GasLog Partners, a unit of LNG shipper GasLog, said it had entered into two charter deals with an unnamed new customer. The deal includes options for an additional two charters. Under the new deals, GasLog Partners will charter the 155,000-cbm tri-fuel diesel electric LNG carrier Gas
Fourteen sophomores from the Architecture, Construction, Mechatronics and Engineering (ACME) Career Academy at Vicksburg High School visited the Vicksburg District Harbor Facility Tuesday. At the harbor students got an inside look at the maintenance shed and the Dredge Jadwin while learning about po
South Hook liquefied natural gas terminal in the United Kingdom is scheduled to receive more LNG from Qatar before the end of the month.
Spanish gas company Cepsa presented on Thursday what it claims is the first multi-product marine fuel supply vessel in southern Europe. The vessel, based in the port of Huelva, will provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) via a ship-to-ship method, in addition to traditional fuels such as HFO and diesel
France’s GTT said it had received an order from the Korean shipyard Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries for the design of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanks. The tanks will be installed onboard two new 174,000-cbm LNG carriers with an expected delivery in 2020, GTT said on Wednesday. GTT will design the L
