Grounded wind turbine installation barge capsizes

FEBRUARY 4, 2016 – Danish offshore windfarm installation specialist A2Sea reports that, due to harsh weather, its jack-up installation barge Sea Worker capsized Tuesday night while still grounded after a January 27

Scotland’s Briggs Marine orders Damen Multi Cat 2712

FEBRUARY 4, 2016 – Fife, Scotland, based Briggs Marine and Environmental Services has ordered a Damen Multi Cat 2712. One of the largest models in Damen’s Multi Cat range, the 27-m 2712

Hyundai Heavy reports another loss making year

FEBRUARY 4, 2016  – Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, racked up a 2015 operating loss and net loss of 1.5401 trillion won  ($1.3 billion) and 1.3632 trillion won ($1.1

TSB Canada reports on foundering of self propelled barge

FEBRUARY 3, 2016 — Here’s another of those marine accident investigationts where the summary does not portray the full horrors in the actual report itself. Released February 1 by the Transportation Safety

MacGregor claims major advance in handling loads at depth

FEBRUARY 3, 2016 —In what its Vice President, R&D and Technology, Baard Trondahl Alsaker calls “an important advance for handling loads at depth,” Cargotec Corporation’s MacGregor subsidiary and Parkburn Precision Handling Systems

DEME orders new generation trailing suction hopper dredge

FEBRUARY 3, 2016 — Zwijndrecht, Belgium, headquartered dredging and hydraulic engineering specialist DEME has ordered a new generation trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) at Royal IHC, which will provide turnkey delivery of

High Pressure SCR completes certification testing

FEBRUARY 3, 2016 — Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder and a leading marine engine maker, reports that it has produced the world’s first High Pressure Selective Catalytic Reduction (HP

Nordbay has a bad day

FEBRUARY 3, 2016 — The Coast Guard yesterday responded to a vessel allision at mile marker 104.3 on the Mississippi River near New Orleans. The 116,104 dwt, 2007-built  Cyprus flagged tanker Nordbay

BP pulls plug on Support Vessel contract with Oceaneering

FEBRUARY 2, 2016 — Oceaneering International, Inc. (NYSE: OII) reports that a unit of BP p.l.c.  (NYSE: BP) has exercised its right, under a Field Support Vessel Services contract that was entered

GD NASSCO awarded $12.6 million LCS 2 contract mod

FEBRUARY 2, 2016 — General Dynamics-National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA, is being awarded a $12,668,280 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee/incentive-fee contract (N00024-15-C-4313) for USS Independence (LCS-2) fiscal 2016 dry-docking

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