Top Stories Huisman Introduces New Series of Large Offshore Cranes

Huisman Introduces New Series of Large Offshore Cranes »

Huisman, the worldwide specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, recently introduced a new series of large offshore cranes. The new series include cranes with lifting capacities ranging up to 900mt and have been developed...

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Liebherr Delivers Heavy Lift Offshore Crane for New Installation Vessel ‘Vidar’

Liebherr Delivers Heavy Lift Offshore Crane for New Installation Vessel ‘Vidar’ »

In June, components weighing up to 420 tonnes each for Liebherr’s new heavy lift offshore crane CAL 45000-1200 Litronic® were loaded from Liebherr MCCtec Rostock GmbH onto two ships in the port of Rostock. These...

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Drewry: Short Term Strength for VLCCs

Drewry: Short Term Strength for VLCCs »

Drewry’s latest Tanker Insight reports that freight rates in most vessel categories remained on the softer side during the month due to weakness in chartering activity in the major loading regions barring Arabian Gulf. The...

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NOCC Enters New Charter Contracts for Two Car Carriers

NOCC Enters New Charter Contracts for Two Car Carriers »

Norwegian Car Carriers ASA has entered into new time charter contracts for the 100% owned car carriers “NOCC Puebla” and “NOCC Coral”. The charter concluded for “NOCC Puebla” has a duration of about 2 months...

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TTS to Equip Ro-Ro Vessel ‘Sigrid’ (Sweden)

TTS to Equip Ro-Ro Vessel ‘Sigrid’ (Sweden) »

TTS has supplied an electric operated stern ramp/door on the specialized Ro-Ro vessel “m/s Sigrid” for the Swedish shipowner SKB. In late June this year Damen Shipyards, Gorinchem, in the Netherlands and its Galati yard...

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Kongsberg Completes Bridge and Automation Retrofit on ‘Saipem 7000′

Kongsberg Completes Bridge and Automation Retrofit on ‘Saipem 7000′ »

Kongsberg Maritime has completed the installation and commissioning of an integrated bridge and automation solution during a large-scale retrofit of the Saipem 7000, an advanced Semi-submersible crane and pipelaying (J-lay) DP3 vessel. The project to...

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InterManager Calls for Restraint Following Entry into Force of MLC

InterManager Calls for Restraint Following Entry into Force of MLC »

InterManager, the international association of in-house and third party ship managers, is calling on flag States to exercise tolerance and flexibility in the weeks and months following the entry into force of the Maritime Labour...

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TTS Appoints New Head of Services Division (Germany)

TTS Appoints New Head of Services Division (Germany) »

TTS has appointed a new head of the Services Division, Mr Stefan Gleuel as Executive Vice President Services. He will be based at the TTS office in Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Gleuel has degrees in Naval...

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UPDATE 2: MOL Comfort’s Parts Still Afloat »

UPDATE 2: MOL Comfort’s Parts Still Afloat

The two parts of MOL Comfort, the forward and aft portions, are drifting in the Arabian Sea after the containership broke apart two days...

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UPDATE 1: MOL Comfort Breaks in Two »

UPDATE 1: MOL Comfort Breaks in Two

The MOL Comfort incident that occurred yesterday, June 17, 2013, has taken serious proportions. Namely, MOL-operated containership, after reported crack amidships, has broken into...

Jun 18 2013 / Comments Off / Read More »

Top News of the Week June 10 – 15, 2013 »

Top News of the Week June 10 – 15, 2013

Samsung Heavy Bags Another Large-Scale Order Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has revealed today that its Nigerian subsidiary has won a USD 3 billion worth...

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First Triple-E Vessel Christened (South Korea) »

First Triple-E Vessel Christened (South Korea)

Maersk Line’s newest vessel, the first of the Triple-E series, was named Friday morning in a ceremony at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering...

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Golden Ocean Concludes Newbuilding Contracts »

Golden Ocean Concludes Newbuilding Contracts

Golden Ocean Group Limited announced that it has concluded three option three newbuilding contracts for 64,000 dwt Supramax bulk carriers with Chengxi Shipyard Co.,Ltd...

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Samsung Heavy Bags Another Large-Scale Order »

Samsung Heavy Bags Another Large-Scale Order

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has revealed today that its Nigerian subsidiary has won a USD 3 billion worth order for the construction of an...

Jun 13 2013 / Comments Off / Read More »

Statoil Orders Two Jack-Up Rigs from Samsung Heavy (South Korea) »

Statoil Orders Two Jack-Up Rigs from Samsung Heavy (South Korea)

Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd.(SHI) announced today in its filing to the Korea Stock Exchange that it has received an order for the construction...

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Prosafe Secures Contract for Newbuild Accommodation Vessel (UK) »

Prosafe Secures Contract for Newbuild Accommodation Vessel (UK)

Prosafe has been awarded a contract from Statoil (U.K.) Ltd for the provision of either the Safe Zephyrus or Safe Boreas accommodation support vessel...

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Samsung Heavy to Build Eighth Drillship for Ensco »

Samsung Heavy to Build Eighth Drillship for Ensco

Ensco plc has ordered an additional advanced-capability DP3 ultra-deepwater drillship based on the Samsung GF12000 hull design. The vessel, ENSCO DS-10, will be the...

Jun 10 2013 / Comments Off / Read More »

UK: Seajacks Enters Contract for Largest OW Installation Vessel Ever »

UK: Seajacks Enters Contract for Largest OW Installation Vessel Ever

Seajacks International has entered into a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries to build the world’s largest and most advanced offshore wind farm installation vessel....

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Alicat Workboats, South Boats IOW Join Forces for Seawork (UK) »

Alicat Workboats, South Boats IOW Join Forces for Seawork (UK)

Alicat Workboats and South Boats IOW will be joining forces for the first time at next week’s Seawork International event in Southampton. The companies will have their latest boats on display and it is the perfect opportunity to come aboard, have a good look around...

Jun 19 2013 / Comments Off / Read More »

Baker & McKenzie Advises China Merchants on Its Partnership with CMA CGM »

Baker & McKenzie Advises China Merchants on Its Partnership with CMA CGM

Baker & McKenzie has advised China Merchants Holdings Company Limited, the largest public port operator in China; on its strategic partnership with CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container shipping company; and its successful acquisition of the 49% equity interest in Terminal Link, a wholly-owned...

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Crowley’s Alert Tugboat Recognized for Emergency Rescue Tow of ‘Kulluk’ Drill Rig »

Crowley’s Alert Tugboat Recognized for Emergency Rescue Tow of ‘Kulluk’ Drill Rig

The captain and crew of Crowley’s Prevention and Response tug (PRT) Alert were personally recognized by Representative Eric Feige from the Alaska State Legislature for courage, teamwork and professionalism during the emergency rescue tow of the drill barge Kulluk off the southern point of Kodiak...

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Dockwise Delivers Spar Hull to Lucius O&G Project (USA) »

Dockwise Delivers Spar Hull to Lucius O&G Project (USA)

Boskalis announces that Dockwise safely and successfully offloaded the 23,000 ton Lucius spar last week for the Lucius deepwater oil and natural gas project located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Lucius truss spar, measuring 184 meters (605 feet) long and 34 meters (110 feet)...

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CTruk to Exhibit at Seawork 2013 (UK) »

CTruk to Exhibit at Seawork 2013 (UK)

CTruk will exhibit on stand B63 at Seawork next week and will have a vessel on the pontoon for the first time ‒ CWind Alliance. CWind Alliance was recently recognised by Siemens for ‘outstanding vessel performance’ on the London Array offshore wind farm. Attendees can...

Jun 18 2013 / Comments Off / Read More »

Northrop Grumman to Upgrade Arklow’s Fleet Navigation Systems »

Northrop Grumman to Upgrade Arklow’s Fleet Navigation Systems

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by Arklow Shipping to upgrade 12 container vessels with VisionMaster FT Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) to enable paperless navigation. Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine business unit will install all of the systems by the end of 2014....

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BIMCO BoD Held Meeting on Ballast Water and Greenhouse Gases Issues (France) »

BIMCO BoD Held Meeting on Ballast Water and Greenhouse Gases Issues (France)

The Board of Directors (BoD) met on Monday 27 May following the preceding day’s brief Executive Committee (EC) Meeting. This was the first assembly of the entire BOD since the Singapore General Meeting and a broad agenda had been prepared for its consideration. Mr. Yudhishthir...

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MV Alice Starts Maiden Voyage from Delfzijl to Antwerpen »

MV Alice Starts Maiden Voyage from Delfzijl to Antwerpen

After successful trials and delivery, M.V. Alice, Hull Nb. 415 went into service for Erik Thun A.B. on June 6th 2013. The maiden voyage for Alice went ballasted from Delfzijl to Antwerpen, where she loaded for Heroya, Norway. During her first loaded voyage the ‘energy...

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The Netherlands: NAUTIS Simulators Introduce Interface to PC Maritime ECDIS »

The Netherlands: NAUTIS Simulators Introduce Interface to PC Maritime ECDIS

VSTEP and PC Maritime have jointly developed a software interface which makes high quality, yet affordable ECDIS and radar training possible. Following its radar video interface with the Kelvin Hughes and MARIS ECDIS, VSTEP’s NAUTIS bridge simulators now also connect to PC Maritime’s Navmaster ECDIS...

Jun 18 2013 / Comments Off / Read More »

 

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VIDEO: Building Maersk Line’s Triple-E Vessels – Part Two »

VIDEO: Building Maersk Line’s Triple-E Vessels – Part TwoA major milestone was reached on 23 February with the semi-launch of the first Triple-E at the shipyard in Okpo, Korea. In order to make...

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