Rob Almeida

McDermott International’s Lay Vessel North Ocean 105 (LV105), a deepwater reeled pipelay installation vessel, will be heading to work at Brazil’s

Need to pick up something extraordinarily heavy while floating in the middle of the ocean and then placing it somewhere with extreme precision? There are a

Jay Goodgal will no doubt be shaking his head this morning on the latest news from COSCO which has ordered eight new bulk carriers via its investment holding

After a challenging year for container shippers who continue to deal with the issue of too many ships and too few cargoes, the top names in the business have

After analysts from the Australian GeoSpacial-Intelligence Organisation detected possible pieces of large debris floating in the remote southern Indian Ocean,

Scandinavian tanker owners, Concordia Maritime and Neste Oil have reached an agreement to sell a pair of  jointly-owned, 2007-built Ice Class 1A panamax

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) won a newbuild order from Sovcomflot today to build a 170,000 m3 icebreaking LNG carrier.  The vessel will

McDermott’s Dive Support Vessel Thebaud Sea has been mobilized for an Emergency Pipeline Repair intervention offshore the United Arab Emirates. This

As noted last year, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA (AKPS) has signed orders from Crowley to deliver four new, LNG-ready MR product tankers for a total cost of

Gulf Marine Services (GMS) launched its IPO on the London Stock Exchange this morning. The Abu Dhabi-based owner of nine self-propelled elevating offshore

Over the past few years, much of the news surrounding piracy at sea has been focused on the highly publicized attacks off Africa, however in many other parts

Hanjin Shipping, South Korea’s largest shipping company, announced in a stock exchange filing today that it will be merging itself back into its parent

Japanese classification society ClassNK has put their stamp on their first-ever US-flagged ship, the 2008-built, 7,985 dwt oil product tanker SLNC PAX, owned

Sunrise Orient, a 90-meter ship carrying 2,800 tons of cement lies aground today at Cheung Chau in Hong Kong.  She has sat there since running aground on

Singapore-based offshore specialist Nordic Maritime, in collaboration with Sovcomflot (SCF Geo), has been awarded a USD $23.5 million contract to provide 3D

A crew member on board Songa Offshore’s drilling rig, the Songa Mercur, drilling offshore Vietnam, notes in an email he may have witnessed the missing

Lewek Ebony, an anchor handling tug and supply (AHTS) vessel owned by EMAS – the Singapore-based offshore and subsea contractor, was chased last night by

Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has announced the signed newbuild order for two firm bulk carriers, plus two options from Bohi Industry, the Chinese

For those of you who geek out on the latest ongoings in the world of satellite communications, you’re likely aware that Airbus, the French company famous

When I first got into the commercial maritime industry, I remember a few people saying how they worked on a “geared bulk carrier” and I thought to