Swiber Holdings Archives - Baird Maritime

April 26, 2021

COLUMN | Mistakes were made in Singapore (and Cambodia): Pacific Radiance, Swiber, Keppel, and KrisEnergy [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on April 26, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Construction, Offshore Decommissioning, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Everyone makes mistakes, and in the good times they can be concealed amid the optimism of a boom. In the bad times, however, they are harder to hide. This week we look at ..

OFFSHORE WEEK

December 11, 2019

Introduction | The offshore industry – the slow road to recovery

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 11, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Since the offshore market was plunged into crisis in late 2014, the industry has battled to survive. Hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs, hundreds of vessels have ..

September 28, 2020

COLUMN | Sale of the century: DOF, Vroon, Swire, Maersk and POSH shrink too – Part two [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on September 28, 2020. Posted in Anchor Handling, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Wind, Platform Supply, Work Boat World Features.

In Part One (here) we looked at how the biggest names in the offshore sector, Tidewater and Bourbon have drastically shrunk their fleets in the face of pressure from inve ..

TUG & SALVAGE WEEK

November 13, 2019

COLUMN | POSH and Robert Kuok: Let’s take this private [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on November 13, 2019. Posted in Offshore World, Tug and Salvage World, Work Boat World Features.

You don’t get to be Malaysia’s richest man, worth anywhere from US$12 billion (according to Forbes) to over $18 billion (according to Bloomberg), by buying high and s ..

January 21, 2020

COLUMN | Life’s complicated, and so is Pacific Radiance and Allianz’s deal [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on January 21, 2020. Posted in Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

The Pacific Radiance/Allianz deal has been going on for nearly five months now, since the troubled Singapore-based offshore player announced on Thursday, August 22, that ..