News

The latest maritime and offshore news.


Thursday, April 16, 2015
Three Dockworkers Killed While Unloading Coal at Port of Antwerp
Interesting

Three Dockworkers Killed While Unloading Coal at Port of Antwerp

Three dockworkers were killed last Saturday at the Port of Antwerp after unloading coal from an open hatch cargo ship. The three workers were reported to have

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 252

Angry and Divided, South Korea Mourns On Anniversary of Sewol Ferry Disaster
News

Angry and Divided, South Korea Mourns On Anniversary of Sewol Ferry Disaster

A day of mourning for the 304 victims of the Sewol ferry sinking was overtaken by acrimony on Thursday, as organizers called off a ceremony planned to mark its

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 132

Italy’s Migrant Crisis Intensifies with Murder Arrests, Drownings
News

Italy’s Migrant Crisis Intensifies with Murder Arrests, Drownings

Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as the crisis off

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 22

Transocean drilling deepwater asgard
News

Statoil Renegotiates for the Discoverer Americas as Transocean’s Deepwater Asgard Arrives in the GoM

In Transocean’s latest fleet update summary released this afternoon, their 6th generation drill ship Discoverer Americas will be officially heading back

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 336

Scientists Geek Out Over Sperm Whale Encounter
News

Scientists Geek Out Over Sperm Whale Encounter

A team of scientists aboard the E/V Nautilus got super excited when a large sperm whale decided to check out the ROV Hercules at a depth 598 meters off

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 65

North Carolina Offers Strong Support of Oil and Gas Exploration Off Atlantic Coast
News

North Carolina Offers Strong Support of Oil and Gas Exploration Off Atlantic Coast

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory on Wednesday expressed strong support for the environmentally safe and responsible offshore energy exploration off the

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 41

South Korean President Promises to Raise Sunken Sewol Ferry
News

South Korean President Promises to Raise Sunken Sewol Ferry

On the one year anniversary of the Sewol ferry tragedy, South Korean President Park Guen-hye has vowed to raise the sunken ferry as soon as possible. Speaking

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 43

Treasure Hunters Pull Silver Coins from WWII Shipwreck at Record Depth
Interesting

Treasure Hunters Pull Silver Coins from WWII Shipwreck at Record Depth

  Deepwater salvage and recovery firm Deep Ocean Search says it has pulled “several tens of tons” of silver coins from a WWII shipwreck at a

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 242

Maersk Oil Announces Job Cuts
News

Maersk Oil Announces Job Cuts

Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk will cut 200 jobs in its Maersk Oil unit due to a drop in the oil price and to reduce operating costs by 20 percent over the next

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 19

christian waldegrave
News

Teekay Sees Continued Strength in the Tanker Market

Christian Waldegrave, Teekay’s Manager of Research believes the tanker market, at least in the short term, looks to stay strong due to low oil prices and

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 37

gs caltex refinery
News

Asian Crude Buyers Realize Mexican Oil May Not Have Been Such a Bargain

A few months after snapping up the most heavily discounted Mexican oil in 20 years, Asian refiners are discovering some of these bargains may have been

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 116

liuhua 11-1 tlp project
News

Technip Wins CNOOC Tension Leg Platform FEED Project

Liuhua, China’s largest offshore oil field with an estimated 1 billion barrels of oil in place, will be developed via a pair of tensioned leg platforms

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 210

Wednesday, April 15, 2015
EMAS AMC Signs New Subsea IRM Contracts
News

EMAS AMC Signs New Subsea IRM Contracts

Global subsea EPCIC contractor EMAS AMC, a subsidiary of Ezra Holdings, reports today new contracts worth upwards of $55 million to support the inspection,

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 48

maersk giant lifeboat
News

Norwegian Investigators Release Report on Accidental Lifeboat Launch

Norway’s Petroleum and Safety Authority (PSA) says faulty maintenance was to blame for an incident mid-January aboard the jackup rig Maersk Giant where

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 133

drilling texas land rig
News

Oil Trades Near 2015 High on Signs U.S. Shale Boom Is Easing

Oil traded near the highest price this year amid speculation a slowdown in the U.S. shale boom will ease the biggest supply glut since

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 16

South Korea Response to Ferry Disaster Has Been a Tragedy – View
News

South Korea Response to Ferry Disaster Has Been a Tragedy – View

(Bloomberg View) — On April 16, 2014, more than 300 people died when a passenger ferry carrying mostly high-school students sank off the coast of South

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 90

tugboat bulldog caterpillar
News

Caterpillar Marine Acquires Key to Big Data – ESRG

Imagine operating a ship while continuously keeping track of 100 different things that were happening aboard your ship. It’s simple data collection, but the

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 151

Anthem_of_the_Seas
News

Royal Caribbean’s ‘Ovation of the Seas’ Heading to Australia

Royal Caribbean on Wednesday announced that its newbuild Ovation of the Seas cruise ship will head to Sydney, Australia for the winter 2016-17 season, a

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 274

SpaceX Rocket Landing in HD Video
Interesting

SpaceX Rocket Landing in HD Video

Ok, so I know we already posted a clip of SpaceX’s latest attempt to land its reusable Falcon 9 rocket atop a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but this

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 67

Video: London-bound Aboard Mark Prior – Shipping TV
Blog

Video: London-bound Aboard Mark Prior – Shipping TV

Here’s part 1 and 2 of a four part series by Shipping TV’s Chris Gosling. Chris is usually in the port of Felixstowe aboard some of the

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 51