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Offshore
Island Drilling scores new contract with Dana Petroleum
Norwegian rig owner Island Drilling has won a new contract from Dana Petroleum for its 2012-built semisub . The rig…
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Ports and Logistics
Another two-week strike starts at Liverpool port
Liverpool dockworkers are downing tools for another two weeks from today as a bitter pay dispute between Peel Ports and…
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Tankers
Navig8 takes CSIC Leasing’s tanker trio under commercial management
Navig8 has taken over the commercial management of CSIC Leasing’s three panamax tankers. The financial leasing arm of China Shipbuilding…
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Finance and Insurance
Bibby to launch marine finance business
Bibby Line Group’s financial arm for small and medium-sized enterprises, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has announced plans to launch a…
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Offshore
Teekay sends FPSO for scrap in Denmark
Teekay Corporation has contracted Modern American Recycling Services (MARS) for green recycling of its 1996-built floating production storage and offloading…
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Renewables
DEME teams with LS Cable on Norfolk Boreas wind farm contract
Belgium-based DEME Offshore has secured export cable contract for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Boreas wind farm in a consortium with South Korea’s…
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Bunkering
Key nuclear tests to get underway in the US bringing shipping a step closer to adopting atomic propulsion
Southern Company Services (SCS) and TerraPower have built and installed a new test facility at TerraPower’s laboratory in Everett, Washington,…
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Finance and Insurance
Star Capital offloads entire stake in MPC Container Ships
UK private equity firm Star Capital has sold its entire holding in the Oslo-listed boxship owner, MPC Container Ships (MPCC).…
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Offshore
Solstad’s battery hybrid PSV secures five-year contract in UK North Sea
Norway’s Solstad Offshore has landed a long-term contract with TotalEnergies UK for its battery-hybrid installed large platform supply vessel .…
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Containers
Contships buys Lomar quartet
Greece’s Contships Management has purchased four 1,102 teu boxships from Lomar Shipping according to Alphaliner. No price has been revelled…
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Offshore
Global Marine charters out cable layer to NEC
UK-based subsea cabling specialist Global Marine Systems, part of the Global Marine Group, has sealed a long-term charter deal with…
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Operations
Liverpool dockworkers to stage further two-week strike
Hundreds of port workers at the Port of Liverpool, one of the UK’s largest container ports, will stage two more…
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Finance and Insurance
Lomar taps Macquarie to refinance tanker fleet acquired from Carl Büttner
UK-based diversified owner Lomar Shipping has secured a $86m loan from Australian lender Macquarie Group for the refinancing of six…
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Operations
New CEO for Ocean Technologies Group
Seafarer training and fleet management giant Ocean Technologies Group, (OTG) has appointed Thomas Zanzinger to replace Manish Singh as CEO.…
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Renewables
Floating offshore wind pipeline hits 185 GW mark
Floating offshore wind project pipeline has more than doubled in the past 12 months in terms of capacity worldwide, from…
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Dry Cargo
Taylor Maritime Investments set to complete Grindrod Shipping takeover
London-listed Taylor Maritime Investments (TMI) has struck a takeover deal with Singapore-based Grindrod Shipping that values the bulker owner at…
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Renewables
Scottish floating wind-to-hydrogen project presses ahead
Floating offshore wind technology provider Principal Power has signed a contract with ERM to advance the front-end engineering design (FEED)…
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Offshore
Petrofac bags $60m wells management deal with Dana Petroleum
UK energy services company Petrofac has been awarded a $60m contract by Dana Petroleum to provide well management services for…
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Ports and Logistics
Strike-hit Liverpool port warns of job cuts
Liverpool port is set to restructure its containers division and start a redundancy consultation process, citing a marked deterioration in…
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Renewables
BP moves to triple its offshore wind staff
London-based supermajor BP plans to triple the workforce at its offshore wind business by 2023. According to Bloomberg, the aim…
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