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Transocean Announces $195 Million Ultra-Deepwater Drillship Contract
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (Transocean) today announced a 365-day contract extension for the Deepwater Asgard with an independent operator in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The program is expected to commence in June 2024 in direct continuation of …
Apr 3, 2024 / Vessels
OceanStar’s New FSO Design Receives Bureau Veritas Basic Design Assessment Statement
At the Offshore Technology Conference Asia on 29 February 2024, Bureau Veritas (BV) presented a Basic Design Assessment certificate to OceanSTAR Elite group of companies, a Singaporean engineering design provider, for its latest Floating Storage and …
Apr 1, 2024 / Curious
Establishment of marketing company for liquified CO2 shipping by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Nippon Gas Line
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE) and Nippon Gas Line Co., Ltd. (Nippon Gas Line) have announced the agreement to establish a marketing company for the purpose of providing the seamless and efficient integrated liquefied CO2 transportation …
Mar 29, 2024 / Curious
Port of New Orleans Container-on-Barge Service Sets New Record
The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) marked 20,500 container moves by barge during calendar year 2023, the highest since starting the service in 2016 with the Port of Greater Baton Rouge and Ingram Marine Group. The partnership represents the largest …
Mar 6, 2024 / Curious
TECO 2030 and Umoe Mandal receives preliminary approval for high-speed vessel design
The vessel design is utilizing Umoe Mandal's proven Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) Surface Effect Ship (SES) technology, featuring an air-cushion catamaran design. This configuration ensures very high fuel efficiency, sufficient range to sail a complete …
Feb 29, 2024 / Curious
NYK Places First Order with Japanese Shipyard for Offshore Wind Industry Crew Transfer Vessel
NYK Places First Order with Japanese Shipyard for Offshore Wind Industry Crew Transfer Vessel In January, NYK placed an order with Kosaba Shipbuilding Corporation for a crew transfer vessel (CTV), the first CTV for NYK to order from a Japanese …
Feb 21, 2024 / Vessels
ABB to supply hybrid power system for Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel
ABB has secured an order with Norwegian shipyard Ulstein Verft to supply an advanced power and propulsion system for a forthcoming cable-laying vessel (CLV) of Nexans, a global player in energy transition headquartered in Paris, France. On delivery …
Feb 14, 2024 / Vessels
TECO 2030 and Umoe Mandal submits fuel cell high-speed vessel design for approval in principle
TECO 2030 (OSE: TECO, OTCQX: TECFF, ISIN: NO0010887516) and Umoe Mandal has just delivered the documentation package to the Norwegian Maritime Authority for an approval in principle application of the World’s first fuel cell high-speed vessel design. …
Feb 13, 2024 / Curious
DOF Awarded Contract by Altera Infrastructure To Install One FPSO and one FSO Offshore Ivory Coast
DOF has been awarded a contract by Altera Infrastructure to install one FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading unit) and one FSO (Floating Storage unit) for the phase 2 development of the Baleine field in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, …
Feb 12, 2024 / Curious
Smyril Line has signed contracts for two modern and environmentally friendly RoRo cargo ships
Smyril Line has announced that a contract has been made with the CIMC Raffles shipyard in China to build two new cargo ships for the company. These are two identical RoRo ships, measuring 190 meters in length and having 3,300 lane meters for …
Feb 8, 2024 / Curious