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The latest maritime and offshore news.


Monday, January 13, 2014
MAN B&W Diesel 7S70ME-C
Engineering News

Nakilat to Repower Q-MAX LNG Carrier with Dual Fuel ME-GI Engine

Qatari shipping company Nakilat, the world’s largest owner of LNG carriers, along with Qatari LNG producers Qatargas, RasGas and engine manufacturer MAN

January 13, 2014
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Engineering News

Oman’s Square-Rigged Flagship Launched at Damen Shipyards

Named the RNOV ‘Shabab Oman,” this 87-meter sail training vessel (STV) is destined to become the flagship of the Royal Navy of Oman once delivered

January 13, 2014
Total Views: 152

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News

Technip Extends Contracts for Solstad Anchor Handlers

Technip UK Limited has exercised the first of two yearly options to extend existing frame agreement with Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) for the supply of vessels

January 13, 2014
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
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Philippines Sees Nickel Boon on Indonesia’s Ban

The ban on mineral-ore exports from Indonesia, the world’s biggest nickel producer, is poised to benefit neighboring miners in the Philippines, who are

January 12, 2014
Total Views: 64

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Shipowners Make Big Bets on Markets and Evolving U.S. Export Policies

With the holidays behind us, shipping slowly returns to daily routine of moving cargoes (we should never forget what shipping is all about) and everyone having

January 12, 2014
Total Views: 249

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Japan Loans Mozambique $672 Million To Develop Access to Energy Resources

Japan will lend Mozambique 70 billion yen ($672 million) over five years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday, as the Asian nation seeks to secure access

January 12, 2014
Total Views: 69

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Shipping News

Indonesia Eases Ore Ban as Freeport Keeps Copper Exports

Indonesia pushed ahead with a watered-down ban on mineral ore exports that will cut global nickel supplies and allow Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. to

January 12, 2014
Total Views: 67

Ships of Horror: Pacific Fishermen Raped, Beaten, and Fed Fish Bait
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Ships of Horror: Pacific Fishermen Raped, Beaten, and Fed Fish Bait

On August 18, 2010, the South Korean fishing vessel, Oyang 70, capsized and sank while working in the New Zealand´s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), resulting

January 12, 2014
Total Views: 535

Saturday, January 11, 2014
Sacyr Says Has $574 Million At Stake In Panama Canal Expansion Contract
Shipping News

Sacyr Says Has $574 Million At Stake In Panama Canal Expansion Contract

Sacyr, the Spanish building company leading a consortium to expand the Panama Canal, said it risks losing $574 million in guarantees and advance payments if a

January 11, 2014
Total Views: 22

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
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Freeport Halts Indonesia Copper Exports Ahead Of Mineral Export Ban

U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc halted its copper exports from Indonesia, less than an hour before a controversial mineral export ban

January 11, 2014
Total Views: 75

Friday, January 10, 2014
OSV Crewmember Loses Foot in Accident Off Louisiana
Shipping News

OSV Crewmember Loses Foot in Accident Off Louisiana

A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a 27-year-old man from an offshore supply vessel 5 miles off Louisiana, Thursday, after losing his foot in an

January 10, 2014
Total Views: 33

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Capesize Rates Plunge Nearly 30 Percent

The cost of hauling coal and other commodities had its biggest one-day percentage drop on record after Colombia restricted some exports by Drummond Co.,

January 10, 2014
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Costa Concordia To Be Refloated In June
Marine Salvage

Costa Concordia To Be Refloated In June

Thirty massive tanks filled with air will lift the hulk of the Costa Concordia off the seabed in June so it can be towed away from the Italian island of Giglio

January 10, 2014
Total Views: 34

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LNG Export Surge Has Significant Implications for Australian Economy

Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s natural-gas buyers are poised to pay more even as supply more than doubles in the next five years because higher

January 10, 2014
Total Views: 32

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Drillship Order Canceled at STX Shipbuilding

STX Shipbuilding reports today they have lost a KRW 742.9 billion order for a newbuild drillship. Although not specifically mentioned in the exchange filing,

January 10, 2014
Total Views: 38

Thursday, January 9, 2014
Coast Guard Suspends Searches for Missing Crewman
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Coast Guard Suspends Searches for Missing Crewman

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the searches for two missing crewmembers believed to have fallen overboard from a tanker and a cruise ship in two separate

January 9, 2014
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Statoil Scraps Plan for Kristin – Polarled Deepwater Connection

Statoil ASA, Norway’s biggest energy company, canceled plans to build a pipeline tying the Kristin natural-gas field to the planned $4 billion Polarled

January 9, 2014
Total Views: 132

Wartsila engine trieste
Engineering News

Rolls-Royce Takeover Talks With Wärtsilä End With No Deal

Rolls-Royce made a takeover approach to Finnish ship and power plant engine maker Wartsila but the talks ended without a deal, the two companies said on

January 9, 2014
Total Views: 113

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
maersk sealand
Interesting

Maersk Line to Bring SeaLand Back

Maersk Line announced today the revival of the SeaLand brand with formation of a new US-headquartered, intra-Americas container shipping firm of the same name.

January 8, 2014
Total Views: 265

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Atlantica Signs 5-Well Contract Offshore Ivory Coast

Norwegian private equity firm, Hitecvision announced today that Houston-based Atlantica Tender Drilling Ltd, one of their many investments in the offshore

January 8, 2014
Total Views: 67