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API slams BOEM’s 5-year oil and gas lease sale program

In what the American Petroleum Institute (API) slams as “a step in the wrong direction,” the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has now published the final 2024–2029 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil

Edda Wind has got green term loan financing for four new CSOVs at Vard

Edda Wind lines up green term loan for CSOV quartet

Haugesund, Norway, headquartered Edda Wind ASA reports that it has secured green term loan financing for the four newbuild commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) that it ordered at Fincantieri’s Norwegian-based subsidiary Vard

New U/S. Virgin Islands ferry

Gulf Craft starts construction of new U.S. Virgin Islands ferry

The Gulf Craft LLC shipyard in Franklin, La., has started construction of a new U.S Virgin Islands ferry. The 300-passenger 32-meter Incat Crowther designed catamaran vessel will service the busy tourist and

hybrid research vessel

PNNL hybrid research vessel hits the water

Seattle-based Snow & Company recently launched the 50-foot plug-in hybrid research vessel it is building for the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) into Lake Washington. The vessel, the R/V

Northern Lights CO2 carrier ordering ceremony

Bernhard Schulte orders Northern Lights CO2 carrier

The Northern Lights JV, in which Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies are equal partners, has awarded a time charter agreement to Bernhard Schulte that will see the construction of a fourth 7,500 cubic

onshore cgarging solution

NES wins second Scandlines onshore charging contract

Copenhagen-headquartered Scandlines has contracted Norwegian Electric Systems AS (NES) to deliver an onshore charging system for its Puttgarden, Germany, ferry terminal. As we reported earlier, Scandlines’ new zero emissions freight ferry, Futura,

sustainable shipping project will use AI and digital twins

AI-based Norwegian sustainable shipping project wins funding

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to cut huge amounts of emissions from shipping and the Norwegian Government’s Green Platform initiative has just awarded NOK 44 million (about $4.2 million) to a

Peter Sand warns of implications for Suez Canal in Houthi attacks

Houthi attacks on ships could bring Suez Canal supply chain crisis

Leading shipping analyst Peter Sand is warning that missile and drone attacks by the Houthis on merchant ships passing through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden could throttle Suez Canal traffic,

mystery buyer signs contract for cable layer

Mystery buyer orders cable layer at Vard

With offshore wind farm development creating the need to lay a lot of cable, demand for cable layers can only be expected to grow. One beneficiary of this is Fincantieri’s Norwegian subsidiary

OSG president & CEO Sam Norton talks Saltchuk acquisition

All four OSG Alaska class tankers to get engine upgrades

Tampa, Fla., headquartered Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (NYSE:OSG) has signed a contract with MAN Energy Solutions SE that will see all four of the nearly 20-year old OSG Alaska class tankers get

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