Cook Islands Archives - Baird Maritime

June 1, 2022

Work Boat World Emergency Service Vessel Orders and Deliveries Roundup – June 1, 2022

Written by Baird Maritime on June 1, 2022. Posted in Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Firefighting, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Search and Rescue.

We start the month of June 2022 with an impressive roundup of emergency service vessel deliveries. The newbuilds include a fast cutter for the US Coast Guard, two respons ..

December 28, 2020

COLUMN | The Royal New Zealand Navy: a small but increasingly ambitious force [Naval Gazing]

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on December 28, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Naval, Work Boat World Features.

The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) is responsible for maritime security within the nation’s 4.3 million square-kilometre EEZ, as well as in the waters surrounding the Ne ..

June 19, 2019

FEATURE | Is China using its South China Sea strategy in the South Pacific?

Written by Ewen Levick on June 19, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Maritime Security World, Seabed Mining.

How might Beijing use its success in occupying the South China Sea as a template for expansion into the South Pacific? Although China’s growing presence in the South Pa ..

April 4, 2022

COLUMN | Eneti’s wishful thinking; Transocean enters subsea mining; Allseas progresses wet mining tests; Boskalis goes private; SHUAA buys Allianz Marine in Abu Dhabi [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on April 4, 2022. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Extraction, Processing & Storage, Offshore Operations & Maintenance, Offshore Renewables, Offshore World, Seabed Mining.

Last week we looked at the ongoing restructurings at DOF, Havila, Siem Offshore and Saipem. With judicious bail outs from shareholders and support from lenders, the oil a ..

December 9, 2020

18 rescued from capsized fishing vessel off Galapagos Islands

Written by Baird Maritime on December 9, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Other Fishing Methods, Search and Rescue, Tanker World.

The US Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of 18 Ecuadorian nationals after their 22-metre commercial fishing vessel sank approximately 560 kilometres north of the Galapag ..

January 21, 2022

Cook Islands Police’s newest patrol boat launched in Australia

Written by Baird Maritime on January 21, 2022. Posted in Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Non-Naval (Maritime Security).

Austal Australia has launched the 15th Guardian-class patrol boat that the company is building for the Australian Government’s Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement Proje ..

November 8, 2019

COLUMN | What I learned at the 2019 Underwater Mining Conference [The Bow Wave]

Written by Andrew Baird on November 8, 2019. Posted in Seabed Mining, Work Boat World Features.

For those who don’t know of Sanya, it is a city on the South coast of the Chinese island of Hainan which sits at the northern end of the South China Sea, not far fr ..