StatoilHydro Investigates Fatal Accident
StatoilHydro and the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) are inquiring into a death on Oseberg B on May 7. StatoilHydro has received the PSA’s investigation report into the North Sea incident…
ESAB’s Florence Hub Undergoes Restructuring
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has announced a restructuring of its Florence, SC manufacturing operations. By the end of 2009, the manufacture of gantry cutting machines…
StatoilHydro to Recover Vega South Oil
StatoilHydro hopes to recover seven million barrels of oil and a billion standard cu. m. of associated gas from Vega South. Located in the northern North Sea, this…
Sam Shipping Freight Portal
Sam Shipping has recently launched the comprehensive freight portal www.FreightMarket.com. The portal, designed to obtain quotes for shipments between South America to Asia…
Austal Trains TTCG Personnel
More than 90 personnel from the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) have completed a comprehensive Austal vessel training program in preparation for the delivery of six vessel Fast Patrol Craft fleet in early 2010. The crew training program - held at Austal’s training facilities in Western Australia - familiarized TTCG personnel with the specific features and capabilities of the 30 m Fast Patrol Craft…
Four Ferries Commissioned in Istanbul
In reaction to the increasing commuter traffic on the Bosporus, the municipal ferry enterprise IDO in Istanbul has commissioned four doubleended ferries with two Voith Schneider Propellers each. The four ferries operate on the route between the European ferry terminal Sirkeci and the Asian terminal Harem. With the increased number of ferries on this route, the transport capacity was boosted from 2,500 vehicles to approx. 10,000 vehicles per day.
SPAR Upgrades Cost Estimating Models
SPAR’s cost estimating models have recently been upgraded in an effort to provide complete life cycle cost estimates. Mono-hull, trimaran and catamaran hull forms all have separate cost models.
Light Weight Marine Structures Conference
The First International Conferences on Light Weight Marine Structures will be held September 7-8, 2009 in Glasgow, UK. Designers, manufacturers, marine scientists…
BOW Completes FBB Testing
Blue Ocean Wireless (BOW), a company delivering GSM communication capability for the merchant maritime sector, has completed full FleetBroadband (“FBB”) testing.
TEN Announces Three-Year Charter
Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (“TEN”) has announced a three-year time charter with profit sharing for the 2007-built double-hull suezmax tanker Arctic. The charter…
Zim Receives New Container Ship
According to Reuters, Israeli shipping firm Zim, a unit of holding company Israel Corp., has received the first of 12 vessels it had ordered to meet an anticipated…
Somali Pirates Hijack Crude Carrier
Somali pirates have recently hijacked an Indian ship and used it to launch an unsuccessful attack on a Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, according to VOA News.
Hearing for Fleet Management Pilot
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, federal prosecutors told a judge that the pilot of the container ship that struck the Bay Bridge in November 2007 ignored basic safety precautions…
ENav: Improved Training and Auditing Will Enhance Navigation Safety
Modern electronic navigation systems have the potential to improve vessel navigation safety and ruce accidents. The potential of these new systems is unlikely to be realiz…
Largest New Shipping Order
China's largest private shipbuilder has signed this year’s biggest deal in terms of dead weight tons, according to the company. Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries…
Wavespec Promotes Senior Engineers
Wavespec hopes to expand its capability to deliver a range of products for the offshore industry – particularly dynamic positioning (DP) vessels – through a managerial…
Shell Begins Production at Parque das Conchas
Shell has started production at its multi-field Parque das Conchas project 110 km off Brazil's southeast coast, where heavy oil resources lie beneath waters nearly two km deep in the Campos Basin.
Petra Joins Owner’s Galaxy
The Petra Galaxy, designed by Conan Wu and Asscoiates, is the latest vessel to join the fleet of Perdana Venus Ltd. of the Marshall Islands. The 75-by-20m maintenance/work vessel has approximately 700 sq. m. of open deck space with an intended capacity of five tons per sq. m. for a total deadweight of 3475.56 tons, of which 400 tons could be deck cargo with the vessel drawing 5.2 meters of draft. Classed by ABS as a + A1 +AMS Offshore Vessel…
OPK, Hyundai Heavy Industries Ink Shipbuilding Pact
On July 14, 2009, Yan Yanovsky, Managing Director and Member of the Boards of Directors of United Industrial Corporation (OPK) and B.T. Ahn, Executive vice-president…
