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GEOSHIPS to Operate, Manage New DP1 Craft

Jul 27, 2012

GEOSHIPS creates 40 new jobs with delivery of latest vessel.  GEOSHIPS Group, a marine and subsea services provider, has completed charter party negotiations with Singapore based Teras Offshore, for a new Offshore Deck Cargo Vessel, resulting…

Java Sea Weather Forecasting Contract for BMT Argoss

Jul 27, 2012

BMT Argoss, a subsidiary of BMT Group, contracted by a major oil company to forecast weather in the Java SeaBMT Argoss’s expertise will be used to ensure the safe transfer of crews to and from offshore platforms and to optimise operability…

Kleven Maritime to Build LNG-powered PSV for Remøy Shipping

Jul 26, 2012

Kleven Maritime contracted by Remøy Shipping for the delivery of a LNG-powered platform supply vessel (PSV)The vessel is to be built at Kleven Maritime’s shipyard Kleven Verft. Total contract value for Kleven is around 400 million NOK. In addition…

Deepwater Well Intervention Contract for Aker Solutions

Jul 26, 2012

Aker Solutions' subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services wins contract from Total E&P Angola for vessel-based servicesSkandi Aker, Aker's purpose-built intervention vessel will be used for deep and ultra-deep well intervention services.The agreement…

Wärtsilä Contracted to Supply PSV Ship Designs, Propulsion Systems

Jul 25, 2012

Wärtsilä ship designs and propulsion systems chosen for three new platform supply vessels to be operated by StatoilWärtsilä  has been contracted to supply the ship designs for three new platform supply vessels (PSVs). The contracts have been signed with Kleven Maritime AS…

Rolls-Royce to Power High-tech Drillships

Jul 25, 2012

Rolls-Royce awarded contracts worth over £70-million to supply large thrusters for offshore drilling vessels.These latest orders, which include options for additional thrusters, are from a variety of customers who are expanding their drillship…

China Shipyard Contracted to Build Four Bulk Carriers

Jul 25, 2012

China's CSC Jinling Shipyard inks contract with Singapore's Asia Pacific Shipping Enterprises for four 64,000-dwt bulk carriers Asia Pacific Shipping Enterprises, is the shipping subsidiary of Queensland Nickel Group, owned by Australian magnate Clive Palmer…

Way Clear for First Wind Farm in U.S. Waters

Jul 25, 2012

Fishermen’s Energy receives final construction permit for demonstration wind farm off Atlantic CityFishermen’s Energy announce that it has received approval from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers for its Individual Permit under the Clean Water Act…

Acta Marine Gets Shallow-water Supply Work Contracts

Jul 25, 2012

Acta Marine wins new contracts to provide all supply & support vessels for the Mittelplate Drilling and Production IslandMittelplate is Germany’s largest oilfield and is located in the Wadden Sea tidelands, a unique and sensitive natural environment…

Diana Shipping to Acquire New Bulk Carrier

Jul 24, 2012

Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, has signed, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, a Memorandum of Agreement, to acquire a new-building Post-Panamax dry bulk carrier of 98…

Rolls-Royce to Power New Cruise Ferries

Jul 24, 2012

Rolls-Royce signed a contract with ship owner Fjord Line A/S to install LNG based power and propulsion systems in two cruise ferries being built at the Bergen Group Fosen AS yard in Norway. Each vessel will be equipped with four gas engines…

Time Charters for Two Global Ship Lease Containerships

Jul 23, 2012

Global Ship Lease, Inc. signs new time charters with CMA CGM for two 4,113 TEU containerships.The 1996-built Ville d'Aquarius and the 1997-built Ville d'Orion will be chartered for approximately eight months at a rate of$9,962 per vessel per day…

DONG Energy & Siemens Sign UK Offshore Wind Farm Agreement

Jul 23, 2012

DONG Energy and Siemens Energy sign to supply & service 300 offshore wind turbines for installation offshore UKThe framework agreement is in regard to the 
supply and servicing of a total of 300 offshore wind turbines of 6 megawatt 
each, yielding  a total capacity of 1…

Irish Company to Supply U.S. Container Terminal Cranes

Jul 20, 2012

Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. to supply two Megamax Cranes to Maher Container TerminalLiebherr Container Cranes Ltd. has recently secured an order for a pair of high-tech Megamax cranes. The cranes have been ordered by Maher Terminals LLC…

Aircraft Carrier Funding Approved

Jul 19, 2012

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) said that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has received a $43.4 million modification to a previously awarded contract from the U.S. Navy for purchase of materials for the construction of the aircraft carrier John F…

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