It was a remark by an insurer, commenting on the probable of level of claims after the Baltimore bridge strike incident, that took my attention the other day.
O say can you see by the dawn’s early light A ship that blacked out, and a bridge no longer in sight (With apologies to Francis Scott Key) I have no desire to trivialise the recent events in Baltimore, because people died and that is a terrible tragedy for their families.
One does not wish to provoke any sort of angry response from readers, but is it not time that the definition of piracy was updated?
The Electric Thames project, a collaboration between UK Power Networks, LCP Delta, and Marine Zero, is assessing the viability of using electric vessels to feed stored electricity back into London’s energy network.
Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting billions of dollars of losses on ..
People of my age were brought up to believe that the design of a ship was a sort of necessary compromise between the overall dimensions, speed and consumption, cargo capacity, seakeeping abilities, and, as a secondary afterthought (seafarers believed), habitability.
Baird Maritime once more highlights the ever important fishing and aquaculture sector by reviewing newbuild vessels entering service around the world.
Athens-based tanker operator Performance Shipping, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, has entered into a shipbuilding contract with Chinese shipbuilders the Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group, Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding, and Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding for the construction of a scrubber-fitted, .. Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting billions of dollars of losses on .. In an industry is awash with cash and record profits, it is tragic to see five people confirmed dead in an accident on a Perenco platform offshore Gabon, and one other worker still missing, presumed also killed, as per the most recent update.
Performance Shipping subsidiary orders LR1 tanker from Chinese builders
COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]
COLUMN | Perenco’s shame and Gabon’s lax standards: a fatal combination [Offshore Accounts]
Athens-based tanker operator Performance Shipping, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, has entered into a shipbuilding contract with Chinese shipbuilders the Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group, Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding, and Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding for the construction of a scrubber-fitted, .. Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting billions of dollars of losses on .. In an industry is awash with cash and record profits, it is tragic to see five people confirmed dead in an accident on a Perenco platform offshore Gabon, and one other worker still missing, presumed also killed, as per the most recent update.
Performance Shipping subsidiary orders LR1 tanker from Chinese builders
COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]
COLUMN | Perenco’s shame and Gabon’s lax standards: a fatal combination [Offshore Accounts]
International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) will construct a new international container terminal in the municipality of Bauan in Batangas province, Philippines, the company confirmed on Monday, May 13.
The government of Iran is set to release all 25 crewmembers of a commercial vessel that local paramilitary forces seized earlier this month, the country’s foreign minister told local media.
Japanese shipping company Imoto Lines has unveiled the first image of a coastal feeder containership that will be fitted with a hybrid electric propulsion system.
Stena RoRo, on behalf of sister company Stena Line, has entered into a conversion agreement with China Merchants Jinling (Weihai) Shipyard for the installation of an additional cargo deck, increased thruster capacity, and preparations for shore power on board each of the Ro-Ro vessels Stena Foreteller and Stena Forerunner.
French transport company TOWT has awarded a contract for the construction of six additional wind-powered cargo vessels from compatriot shipbuilder Piriou, bringing the total number of ordered ships to eight.
One does not wish to provoke any sort of angry response from readers, but is it not time that the definition of piracy was updated?
US engineering firm McCarthy Building Companies has completed construction of a new Ro-Ro terminal at the Port of Beaumont on the Texas Gulf Coast.
WORK BOAT WORLD: Dennis Tetzlaff will take over as the new Chief Operating Officer Fleet of Stena Line in addition to becoming part of the group’s management team.
UAE-based port operator the AD Ports Group has entered into a preliminary agreement with the General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI) wherein the two parties will establish a joint venture to develop Al-Faw Grand Port and its economic zone, as well as any future expansion.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, via its Mitsubishi Shipbuilding division, has handed over a new LNG bunkering vessel to joint venture company KEYS Bunkering West Japan Corporation.
Zhoushan Putuo Changhong Shipyard in China has completed conversion works on a locally-owned chemical tanker to enable it to operate as a bunkering vessel that will serve ships running on methanol.
Japan Marine United (JMU) has handed over a new freight-only Ro-Ro vessel to compatriot shipping company Asuka Kisen for operation under charter with JFE Logistics Corporation.
The German Navy formally named its newest K130 corvette in a ceremony earlier this month.
Aerospace manufacturer United Launch Alliance (ULA) has entered into agreements with Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana and naval architecture firm the Bristol Harbor Group of Rhode Island to design, oversee, and build a new ship to transport rockets to be used by the US Space Force.
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