Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil), on behalf of the field license partners, to provide a floating storage and offtake (FSO) unit for the Gina Krog oil and gas field located in North Sea. The contract will be serviced by a new FSO [...]
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Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the current state and development prospects of the United Shipbuilding Corporation. On opening the meeting, the President announced that Vladimir Shmakov has been appointed the new head of the corporation. The United Shipbuilding Corporation was established pursuant to Presidential Executive Order of March 21, 2007 for the preservation and [...]
Together with its Italian partner yard Cantiere Navale Vittoria S.p.a., Damen Shipyards are building two Stan Patrols 5509 to the Italian Guardia di Finanza. This Italian law enforcement agency, deals with financial crime, smuggling Illigal Immigration and narco traffic and maintains a fleet of about 250 vessels. The contract, resulting from a European tender, may [...]
The EU will provide some €37 million to strengthen the fight against piracy in several Eastern and Southern African countries through support for the Programme to promote Regional Maritime Security (MASE). In the past decade, the level of maritime insecurity in the region’s waters has become the highest in the world, undermining development and affecting [...]
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PPG Industries today announced it has started manufacturing protective and marine coatings (PMC) at the company’s facility in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland. The facility, which previously produced architectural coatings and was part of PPG’s January 2012 acquisition of Dyrup A/S, now produces PMC products for the construction, petrochemical, shipbuilding and energy industries. “The Ostrów manufacturing plant [...]
Genscape, the company that pioneered the placement of thousands of patented, in-the-field energy monitors to measure market fundamentals in real-time, today announced the acquisition of Vesseltracker.com GmbH. This acquisition significantly expands Genscape’s network of proprietary real-time energy monitors to deliver the next era in oceangoing fleet analytics and customized reporting. Vesseltracker uses sophisticated algorithms to [...]
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A huge re-enforced concrete pontoon, weighing almost 7000 tonnes, has floated out of dry dock on the north bank of the Tyne, marking a major milestone in a £25 million Humberside port development. Almost 18 million litres of water was pumped into the dock at Shepherd Offshore’s Neptune Energy Park to successfully float the structure, [...]
Specialist boatbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered the Njord Puffin to offshore windfarm service fleet operator Njord Offshore for deployment in Northern Europe. “The Puffin is the sixth in a series of eight vessels ordered, a strong signal of our commitment to the global windfarm industry,” said Rodney Davies, Operations Manager at Strategic Marine. “Last week [...]
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Dutch Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, today opened Maasvlakte 2 to shipping. “Today we are clearing the way for international shipping and trade. That’s typical of the Netherlands. That’s how we became big. With Maasvlakte 2, the Netherlands is throwing the door wide open to the newest generation of container [...]
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Norway-based company Eitzen Eco Bulk has ordered nine handysize dry bulk carriers from Chinese Yangzhou Guoyu Shipbuilding, Sea Trade Global reports. The significant order is worth around $21m per carrier. The 38,000 dwt carriers, will be based on DNV and China’s Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute’s (SDARI) co-developed ‘Green Dolphin’ design. In addition, [...]
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