The December 7-19, 2022, UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in Montreal, Quebec, led to an agreement to protect 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030 and an international framework to prosecute it. Forty-three days later on March 3, 2023, the UN Ambassador for Oceans and President of the UN Biodiversity ..
Climate activists are making more than noise about 3D seismic studies being used to delineate oil and gas reserves offshore Africa. They’ve proceeded with legal action that may force Shell to pull the plug permanently on its search for hydrocarbons along South Africa’s Wild Coast, the country’s poorest ..
Best OSV – Logistics Craft – Sora 1 – Lita Ocean Lita Ocean of Singapore has built seemingly hundreds of crew supply, patrol, and harbour vessels. Slated for a Qatari owner, this vessel is an excellent example of the refinement that comes from many years of building such craft. “It is a heavy-duty, ..
Norwegian engineering company the Eker Group has begun work on a project that seeks to introduce a fleet of autonomous electric ferries for providing commuter services in some of the world’s largest cities. The Hyke project came about in response to what the Eker Group realised was a need for an effective inner city ..
Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine Chartwell Marine is rapidly becoming known globally for its innovative and imaginative workboats. This landing craft is no exception. A multi-purpose boat, she can do amazing things. She is an all-aluminium, diesel outboard-powered landing craft with ..
Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet is going to be expensive. Not only will the initial production cost run into the tens of billions, but there will be significant ongoing outlays for platform sustainment, operational use and shore-based infrastructure. Australia’s share of the cost of the “SSN ..
Baird Maritime resumes its regular feature weeks by focusing on the steadily growing, global passenger vessel sector. We will review recently delivered large ferries in E ..
Chinese shipbuilder CSSC Offshore and Marine Engineering Company (COMEC) (formerly Guangzhou Shipyard International) has completed construction of a new luxury Ro-Pax fer ..
Best OSV – Logistics Craft – Sora 1 – Lita Ocean Lita Ocean of Singapore has built seemingly hundreds of crew supply, patrol, and harbour vessels. Slated for a Qata ..
Norwegian engineering company the Eker Group has begun work on a project that seeks to introduce a fleet of autonomous electric ferries for providing commuter services in ..
Chinese shipbuilder CSSC Offshore and Marine Engineering Company (COMEC) (formerly Guangzhou Shipyard International) has completed construction of a new luxury Ro-Pax fer ..
Best OSV – Logistics Craft – Sora 1 – Lita Ocean Lita Ocean of Singapore has built seemingly hundreds of crew supply, patrol, and harbour vessels. Slated for a Qata ..
Norwegian engineering company the Eker Group has begun work on a project that seeks to introduce a fleet of autonomous electric ferries for providing commuter services in ..
Authorities in Scotland have confirmed that 33 people suffered varying degrees of injury after a foreign-owned research vessel toppled over while in drydock in the capita ..
It was some years ago that a friend, looking at a picture of a couple of giant ship-shore container cranes arriving in a port aboard a barge, observed that their sinister ..
Canadian media reports that a cargo vessel suffered an onboard fire while at berth in the city of Port Colborne in Ontario on Monday, February 27. The locally-registered ..
The December 7-19, 2022, UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in Montreal, Quebec, led to an agreement to protect 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030 and ..
Best Factory Ship – Georgiy Meshcheryakov – Skipsteknisk The Sea of Okhotsk is rich with marine life but it is cold, bleak, and stormy with few safe harbours. Thus, a ..
Best Large Wellboat – Orca Yka – Skipskompetanse An impressively efficient, well thought out, and very stylish fish farm support vessel. Orca Yka epitomises the posit ..
Royal Caribbean Group joins project to develop new fuel cells for cruise ships Cruise company the Royal Caribbean Group, German shipyard Meyer Werft, and technology compa ..
Best Helm Seating Supplier – Norsap Until two or three decades ago the importance of helm seats was far too often ignored in terms of comfort and safety. The modern stu ..
A decommissioned aircraft carrier is once again under the ownership of the Brazilian Navy after the Turkish company that had earlier purchased the vessel for recycling re ..
A large catamaran Ro-Pax vessel has been delivered to an operator in Denmark as a new vehicle ferry enters service with a New York-based shipping company. Construction ha ..
Best OSV – Logistics Craft – Sora 1 – Lita Ocean Lita Ocean of Singapore has built seemingly hundreds of crew supply, patrol, and harbour vessels. Slated for a Qata ..
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