Fairmount Sherpa
The tug ‘Fairmount Sherpa’ has successfully towed jack-up drilling rig ‘Baharia I’ to her new position in the Zeit Bay oil field in the Gulf of Suez.
A new tug ‘Yong Gang Tuo 29’, built specifically for ship-handling operations in the Ningbo Port area, has recently been delivered to her owners, the Ningbo Port Group of China, from Zhenjiang Shipyard.
BIMCO for Regulation of World Shipping
A Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) has called for tighter regulation of shipping on a global basis that will take practical and pragmatic steps to enhance the environment.
The FPSO OSX-1, the first oil and gas floating production, storage, and offloading unit in the OSX´s fleet, is heading today towards Waimea, in the Campos Basin where it will begin the process of producing the first oil for its anchor client OGX.
Rena splits into two
Upon facing severe weather conditions and six-meter swells, Rena split into two spilling cargo and debris into the water. The separated pieces are now 20-30m apart on the Astrolabe Reef being open to the sea and vulnerable to further damage.
Maersk Supply Service has won four major contracts worth 250 million with Brazilian oil company Petrobras and American oil major ExxonMobil for operation in Australia.
SeaFrance
Struggling French ferry company SeaFrance has been given a new reprieve by the Paris court of commerce as a political battle rages over its future.
Support activities by the cruise ship Fuji Maru in areas stricken by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami was the Cruise of the Year 2011 award from the Japan Oceangoing Passenger Ship Association at a ceremony last week.
Containers to be weighed
imagine a container in which the shipper has declared a four-tonne weight of cargo has been stowed within it but subsequently, after it has damaged a crane, is found to contain no less than 28 tonnes.
Overall confidence levels and the likelihood of major new investments in the shipping industry in the next 12 months picked up marginally in the quarter ended November, according to the latest Shipping Confidence Survey from accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens.
World’s first LNG fuelled tanker delivered
The world’s first new-build LNG-fuelled tanker has been delivered to Deen Shipping in Rotterdam, Netherlands. ‘Argonon’ is a 6,100DWT dual-fuelled chemical tanker, built in class to Lloyd’s Register for the Deen Shipping subsidiary Argonon Shipping.
US-based Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding has delivered a new high-speed fire/rescue boat to the US Army. The all-aluminum vessel, designed jointly by the Somerset, Massachusetts, shipyard and C Raymond Hunt Associates, measures 23.1 metres overall, with a 6.3-metre beam and a shallow 1.3-metre draught.
Trawlercat’s anti-piracy vessel
Trawlercat Marine Designs of New Westminster, British Columbia, is seeking joint venture partners to join in building the first purpose-designed anti-piracy personal escort vessel (PEV).
Six leading container shipping lines have agreed to create one of the largest vessel networks in the Far East-to-Europe trade lane.
Anti piracy campaign
At the end of a year in which World Maritime Day took the theme of “Piracy: orchestrating the response”, the IMO has reported “twelve months of relatively good progress that have laid the foundations for cautious optimism about the future”.
Norwegian offshore support company World Wide Supply has ordered four PSV 3300 CD platform supply vessels from Damen Shipyards.
Almi Tankers ‘Almi Horizon’
Greek ship management company Almi Tankers has taken delivery of the first of ten new Suezmax tankers during a ceremony at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s main shipyard in Okpo, South Korea.
Maersk and the US Navy are testing algae-based biofuel on the container ship ‘Maersk Kalmar’. The ship is en route from Northern Europe to India.
Brodosplit delivers Ro-Pax vessel
Croatian shipyard Brodosplit has deivered the Ro-Pax vessel ‘Piana’ to the French shipping company SNC Navale. After delivery, ‘Piana’ will sail between the French port of Marseilles and Bastia, Corsica.
New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) has determined a rusting lifeboat support wire and the lack of a lifejacket contributed to a recent cruise vessel worker’s death.
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