A new 50m ERRV (emergency response and rescue vessel) VOS Fabulous, was launched today at Nanjing East Star Shipyard in China. VOS Fabulous is the first in a ten-vessel newbuilding programme, with six 50-m ERRVs being built at Nanjing and four 60-m vessels under construction at Fujian Southeast Shipyard, also in China. All vessels have [...]
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Farstad Shipping ASA has been awarded a four year contract for PSV Far Star (1999, UT 745, 4,403 DWT), with a four year option by Petrobras in Brazil. The vessel is currently on charter to Technip UK in Brazil. Commencement of the new contract is 14 August 2013 at the latest. The contract value, excluding [...]
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More than a 100 years since RMS Titanic was due to berth in the United States on its grand maiden voyage, a 21st century version of the legendary passenger ship, Titanic II, is coming to New York. Blue Star Line chairman Professor Clive Palmer’s dream for Titanic II has been unveiled at a Global Launch [...]
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Jack-Up Barge awarded MirTac a new contract for consultancy and Star IPS implementation at its exciting new build self elevating platform, the JB-118. The contract includes business consulting and the set-up of all required documentation, instructions, planned maintenance and administration onboard. The design of the state-of-the-art JB-118, Self Elevating Platform, is based on the GustoMSC [...]
Star Bulk Carriers Corp. yesterday announced that Star Bulk was invited to share its views and experience with regard to monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system at a stakeholder meeting organized by the European Commission in Brussels on the 5th of December. More specifically, following the announcement by the two Commissioners, Hedegaard and Kallas, [...]
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The master and owners of Hong Kong flagged bulk carrier Hope Star have been fined and had criminal convictions recorded following the illegal dumping of garbage in the Great Barrier Reef. The vessel’s owners Hope Star Shipping Company Ltd were fined $5000 and the Chinese master was fined $300 after food waste was discharged 210km [...]
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Antwerp-based Scaldis Salvage and Marine Contractors ordered the Star fleet management system and related implementation services with Dutch company MirTac. Scaldis, well-known for amongst others the heavy-lifting/floating crane vessel Rambiz, chose MirTac after a thorough selection process with multiple suppliers. Jules Schelkens, Superintendent, says: “we were looking for an easy-to-use but complete software solution to [...]
North Star Shipping wins international safety award for eleventh consecutive year. North Star Shipping, a division of Craig Group, has scooped a prestigious international award from one of the world’s leading health and safety bodies for the eleventh year in a row. The British Safety Council has awarded the esteemed International Safety Award with Merit [...]
Star Information Systems (SIS), an industry leader in the supply of software and services for technical ship and rig management, has successfully completed the installation of its Star Information & Planning System (Star IPS) across Solstad Offshore’s fleet of 50 high-specification vessels. Solstad, which operates platform supply vessels (PSV), anchor handling vessels (AHTS) and construction [...]
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Attica Group has taken delivery of the new-built Ro-Pax vessel BLUE STAR PATMOS, which was built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd, of Korea. Greek-flagged BLUE STAR PATMOS, an investment of more than Euro 70 million, is the second of two vessels ordered in June 2009 and has overall length 145.50 meters, a [...]
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