Offshore World Archives - Baird Maritime

May 14, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – May 14, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on May 14, 2021. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

The latest string of recently awarded and ongoing projects in the offshore sector covers mostly activities in support of wind farm installation. For the moment, the activ ..

May 10, 2021

COLUMN | Holland (and Belgium)’s glory: how the low countries are winning in offshore wind [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on May 10, 2021. Posted in Dredging and Land Reclamation, Jackups/Liftboats, Maritime Infrastructure Development, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Salvage Operations, Work Boat World Features.

Holland’s Glorie is a novel published in 1940 by the Dutch writer Jan de Hartog. The novel glorified the life of the pre-war salvage master. In English, it was publishe ..

May 6, 2021

Eidesvik sells supply vessel Viking Athene

Written by Baird Maritime on May 6, 2021. Posted in Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Platform Supply.

Eidesvik Shipping, a wholly owned subsidiary of Norway’s Eidesvik Offshore, has sold the platform supply vessel (PSV) Viking Athene. The vessel was recently deliver ..

May 11, 2021

Port of Le Havre to undergo quay upgrades to accommodate offshore wind turbine components

Written by Baird Maritime on May 11, 2021. Posted in Dredging and Land Reclamation, Maritime Infrastructure Development, Offshore Wind, Port World.

HAROPA – Port of Le Havre has selected a consortium of French companies to carry out modifications on one of its existing quays to enable the port to handle large wind ..

May 9, 2021

Nexans’ newest cable-layer begins sea trials

Written by Baird Maritime on May 9, 2021. Posted in Offshore Construction.

A new cable-laying vessel built for Nexans has begun undergoing sea trials in Norway. The Skipsteknisk-designed Nexans Aurora is scheduled for delivery to its new owners ..

May 4, 2021

COLUMN | More mistakes? Velesto, Shearwater, PXGEO and Polarcus, P&O Maritime Logistics, Bourbon Oceanteam and Boskalis, and James Fisher Subtech [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on May 4, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Dive Support, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Last week we looked at mistakes – mistakes from lenders in Singapore to Swiber and KrisEnergy (here), and a terrible error of judgement that led to the capsizing and si ..

MEPS WEEK

May 11, 2021

Centus Marine’s newest crewboat floated out

Written by Baird Maritime on May 11, 2021. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Crew Transfer.

Singapore builder Strategic Marine has floated out a new fast crewboat being built for Malaysian operator Centus Marine. Designed by Southerly Designs of Australia, Centu ..

May 6, 2021

Salvage work begins on Seacor Power

Written by Baird Maritime on May 6, 2021. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Jackups/Liftboats, Salvage Operations.

Salvage crews have started removing the fuel from the tanks of the capsized liftboat Seacor Power in the Gulf of Mexico off Port Fourchon, Louisiana, the US Coast Guard s ..

May 3, 2021

NYK, Akita Eisen ink MOU for windfarm crewboat business

Written by Baird Maritime on May 3, 2021. Posted in Crew Transfer, Offshore Wind.

Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NUK) and local towing company Akita Eisen have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a new crew transfer busin ..