Rob Almeida

19 crew members from the South Korean-flagged bulk carrier JS Comet simultaneously came down with an apparent case of debilitating food poisoning off Port

ABS announced today a joint development project (JDP) with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to develop the

Since Euronav’s announcement on 5 January 2014 of their acquisition of 15 Maersk Tankers’ VLCCs, the company notes that 8 ships have so far been

The DP2-equipped light construction / ROV vessel Dina Star was delivered last year by Kleven Shipyard to Fonnes-based shipowner, Myklebusthaug Offshore

Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal last week affirmed the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s October 2013 detention of the 2007-built

The Port of Rotterdam has announced that as of 1 July, vessels can bunker LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) in the port of Rotterdam. Up to now only inland shipping

On the west coast of Norway, just past the corner where the rocky coast begins to curve to the east and on upwards to the cold and remote subarctic

The U.S. Coast Guard has reopened the Mississippi River tonight near St. Louis, Missouri after a 70-foot towing vessel named Jim Marko sank earlier on Tuesday

Keppel Shipyard announced today it will be converting a newly-built, 600,000 bbl ice-class FPSO for Bumi Armada as part of the FSPO Armada Kraken project which

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) announced today the winning of a six-ship petrochemical tanker newbuild order worth KRW 187,500,000,000 (USD $185 million). The

KrisEnergy announced today they have made the final investment decision to drill upwards of 14 development wells at the Wasanna development in the Gulf of

The 105k deadweight ton Aframax tanker Eagle Sydney was at Statoil’s Kårstø oil terminal last week taking on a cargo of condensate (light crude oil).

In 2001, Norway’s largest ferry operator, Fjord1 commissioned the world’s first LNG-powered ferry, the MV Glutra, and 13 years later the company

Keppel Shipyard announced today they have signed a conditional contract with Golar LNG to perform the world’s first-of-its-type conversion of an existing

With utilization of only 37 percent so far this year due to maintenance and repairs, Total has had enough of the Skandi Aker, a 2010-built well intervention

Maersk Drilling has ordering the world’s first 20,000 PSI-rated blow out preventers from GE Oil and Gas today. These giant stacks of milled steel,

Norway is a particularly interesting country in that it has a very personal connection to the sea, as many of its communities are interspersed between deep

I’ve been cruising around Norway for the past 6 days and met up with the folks from Rolls-Royce and Norwegian tug operator Buksèr og Berging who gave

Nam Cheong Ltd, Malaysia’s largest builder of offshore support vessels announced today the winning of a newbuild order for two accommodation work barges

The Vale Brasil arrived at Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal’s (NSSMC) Kashima port on June 18, marking the first time a VLOC has called on Kashima.