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May 24, 2021

COLUMN | The Metals Company: what lies behind the subsea mining pitch? – Part Two [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on May 24, 2021. Posted in Offshore World, Seabed Mining, Work Boat World Features.

We return once again to the issue of subsea mining this week. This means we can’t offer any insight into the tragic loss of the Afcons Infrastructure work barge P305, w ..

March 21, 2019

Taiwan to donate patrol boats to Palau and Nauru

Written by Baird Maritime on March 21, 2019. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security).

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has confirmed that the country will donate patrol vessels for use by the coast guards of the South Pacific island nations of ..

July 14, 2017

OPINION: Crowded and complex – The changing geopolitics of the South Pacific

Written by The Australian Strategic Policy Institute on July 14, 2017. Posted in Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Maritime Security World.

Australia faces an increasingly crowded and complex geopolitical environment in the South Pacific.
While the most important external powers in the region have tradit ..

April 6, 2021

COLUMN | Ocean Mining: DeepGreen to list and become The Metals Company as major car makers and WWF press for moratorium on seabed mineral extraction [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on April 6, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Seabed Mining, Work Boat World Features.

The day after Good Friday – Saturday, April 3 – was a good day for DeepGreen Metals, the company that plans to mine polymetallic nodules from the deep abyssal plain o ..

October 1, 2018

FEATURE | Canberra strives to enhance Pacific maritime security

Written by on October 1, 2018. Posted in Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Maritime Security World, Ships (Naval).

Australia lies adjacent to a number of territories which are vulnerable to corruption, organised crime, poor governance and natural disasters, and are judged by some as c ..

March 5, 2020

COLUMN | Mining the seabed: DeepGreen, Allseas, Maersk and the Vitoria 10000 (plus Equinor and Bill Gates for good measure) [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on March 5, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Seabed Mining, Work Boat World Features.

Well, that came out of left field. When we last looked (here), the warm-stacked, deep-water drillship Vitoria 10000 had been reduced to clear by Petrobras in a second auc ..

July 25, 2018

Nauru Government enters partnership with deep sea mining company

Written by Baird Maritime on July 25, 2018. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Seabed Mining.

The government of Nauru has formed a partnership with DeepGreen Resources to explore the seafloor in an effort to generate new revenue sources for the country.
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