The Swire Blue Ocean parent company, Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Ltd., recently placed an order with Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to construct for a 161m, jackup type windfarm installation vessel.
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Indonesia’s PT Berlian Laju Tanker Tbk , whose subsidiaries include Southport, Conn., headquartered Chembulk Tankers, says it has secured commitments from six leading commercial banks to provide $685 million in a new
Edison Chouest Offshore’s LaShip shipyard project in the Port of Terrebonne, Louisiana, is moving forward.The port commission has now posted an RFP for the yard’s 320 ft dry dock on the Central
The Washington State Ferries passenger-only vessels Skagit and Kalama are headed for Tanzania — as cargo. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) sold the two ferries to Scope Community Consultants Ltd.
RALion was recently awarded a contract to design an 89 meter, ice-strengthened research vessel for the Australian government. The vessel will be operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),
NATO Operation Ocean Shield today said that at 1323 UTC February 18, a yacht was reported hijacked by pirates in position 18°00 N 061°02 E. The BBC quotes Ecoterra International as identifying
A.P. Moller-Maersk will announce Monday that it has ordered ten 18,000 TEU containerships from Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, according to wire services. The order has been long anticipated and it
Bankrupt Quebec shipbuilder Davie Yards has gotten another order from the Québec Superior Court extending the stay of proceedings against it under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”) until March 10, 2011.
Judge Martin Feldman, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, today ordered the administration to move quickly on permits for new deepwater oil wells in the Gulf of
