UAE-based ship dismantling company Wreckdock recently opened a new recycling facility in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The facility features four drydocks each measuring 350 t ..
A worker lost his life while scrapping BW Offshore’s Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit BW Cidade de Sao Vicente at an Indian beaching yard earl ..
Singapore-based vessel operator and shipbuilder Marco Polo Marine, through Indonesian subsidiary Marcopolo Shipyard, has ventured into the ship recycling industry followi ..
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 ..
BW Offshore has entered into an agreement to recycle the floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Umuroa at Baijnath Melaram yard in Gujarat, India. The y ..
After last week’s Quick Updates (here) we turn our attention to one of the biggest and most important players in the North Sea and Brazil: Solstad Offshore. Solstad jus ..
A recently established technology start-up company in Germany seeks to address some of the negative issues associated with ship recycling, particularly emissions, polluti ..
The decommissioned US Navy aircraft carrier ex-USS Kitty Hawk has departed the Puget Sound Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) at Bremerton, Washington, with ..
The US Navy, through the Naval Sea Systems Command, has sold two decommissioned aircraft carriers to a Texas shipbreaking firm for eventual scrapping. Sold to Internation ..
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