Cammell Laird Awards Ecospeed Contract for RRS Sir David Attenborough
Subsea Industries’ Ecospeed hull protection system has been selected for RRS Sir David Attenborough, the polar research ship under construction at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, Liverpool, UK.
The £150 million contract to build...
DryShips Records Another Major Impairment Charge Amidst Underwhelming Q4 Results
By Henrik Alex
Summary
Temporarily improved drybulk rates were largely negated by another contract termination in the oil service fleet.
Company recorded a strikingly high $64.5 mln impairment charge against the value of its remaining...
Banker Gives Sobering Assessment of Offshore Vessel Market
Geir Sjurseth, managing director and global head of offshore finance at DVB Bank SE told the Annual OSJ Conference, Awards & Exhibition that the crisis in the offshore vessel industry could last at least...
Meet BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst at iShipping Copenhagen 2017
BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand, will be speaking at the Digital Ship iShipping Conference Copenhagen taking place on 1-2 March 2017 at the Scandic Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. Attendance is free of charge...
Maersk Supply Service Could be Next Target for Consolidators
Maersk Supply Service reported a loss of US$1.2 billion in 2016. With parent company AP Moller-Maersk intending to ‘separate’ its loss-making energy businesses and concentrate on container shipping and ports, the offshore vessel owner...
Container Shipping Market Strength Unclear Ahead of TPM
Despite an apparent recovery in the container shipping industry as seen in higher spot rates and shipping company share prices, there remain parallel, divergent narratives as to how strong the market truly is headed...
Iceberg-filled Waters to Antarctica on 100-year-old Ship Over 52 Action-packed Days
Incredible pics captured by intrepid explorer sailing 5,000 miles through iceberg-filled waters to Antarctica on 100-year-old ship over 52 action-packed days
A BRAVE adventurer sailed on a death-defying 5,000 mile trip through the iceberg-filled waters...
[Watch] Rescue at Sea off Burin Peninsula
All eight crew members aboard the Atlantic Future are okay following a rescue south of Burin.
The Atlantic Future was being captained by John Cabot when Cabot says he encountered external problems he believes to...
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The Brexit bill: From Brussels with love
On February 8th, MPs backed a bill authorising the government to begin the process of withdrawal from the EU. A different Brexit bill may cause more trouble. According...
ClassNK Releases New PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) Software
ClassNK has just released the latest version of its design support software PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) Ver.4.0.0., developed in response to the IACS Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers (CSR BC & OT)....