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Environmentalist group Green Oceans has called for a federal and state moratorium on all offshore wind development in the wake of the incident regarding the damaged blade on the Vineyard Wind farm off Nantucket. The organisation, with a mission to “preserve Rhode Island’s bays, beaches, and ocean from environmental harm”, is also suing to block …
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https://splash247.com/vineyard-wind-incident-sets-off-calls-for-offshore-wind-construction-moratorium/Dutch floater expert SBM Offshore has signed a contract with Woodside’s Mexican arm a contract for the provision of a floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit for the Trion deepwater oil field development. Under the deal, SBM Offshore will construct and then lease to Woodside an FSO unit for 20 years. This award complements the …
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https://splash247.com/sbm-offshore-to-supply-woodside-with-trion-fso/Shanghai, the world’s largest container port, has opened a brand new container terminal area to the north of the city centre on the south bank of the Yangtze River to go alongside existing container terminals in Waigaoqiao and Yangshan. The first phase of Shanghai Luojing Port opened this week, adding an extra 2.6m teu in …
https://splash247.com/worlds-largest-container-port-adds-an-extra-2-6m-teu-in-annual-capacity/
https://splash247.com/worlds-largest-container-port-adds-an-extra-2-6m-teu-in-annual-capacity/Extra container port capacity is being readied at one of this year’s top growth spots on the liner trades. International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) has earmarked $300m to take annual capacity at its terminal at the port of Manzanillo on the Pacific from 1.4m teu to 2m teu. The news comes as global liners …
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https://splash247.com/extra-container-terminal-capacity-under-development-in-mexico-as-chinese-trade-surges/Belgium’s Euronav is offloading one of its very large crude carriers for conversion into a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. The Alexander Saverys-led dual-listed owner said in its quarterly earnings statement that a deal had been struck with a subsidiary of Total Energies for the 2012 Samsung-built Alsace. The 299,999 dwt ship, estimated as …
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https://splash247.com/euronav-sells-vlcc-for-fpso-conversion/A product tanker, Elisabet Satu, caught fire off Bali yesterday with five crew dying and another 15 injured. The eight-year-old, Indonesian-flagged ship was on a domestic voyage when two explosions occurred near the accommodation block following a fire which is believed to have started in the engine room. The ship quickly blacked out following the …
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https://splash247.com/deadly-fire-rocks-indonesian-product-tanker/Teekay Corporation and Teekay Tankers have made several key senior management changes. Teekay Tankers’ president and CEO Kevin Mackay and CFO Stewart Andrade will leave the organisation this month. Kenneth Hvid, Teekay’s current president and CEO and Teekay Tankers’ chairman will take on the added role of Teekay Tankers’ president and CEO. He has been …
https://splash247.com/kenneth-hvid-steps-in-to-head-teekay-tankers-as-kevin-mackay-departs/
https://splash247.com/kenneth-hvid-steps-in-to-head-teekay-tankers-as-kevin-mackay-departs/Two years since he took the role, Rajalingam Subramaniam has decided to step down as the head of Malaysia’s flagship. Rajalingam – known in local shipping circles as Captain Raja – is quitting his role as president and CEO of MISC to pursue other interests with the board announcing Zahid Osman will step up to …
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https://splash247.com/rajalingam-steps-down-at-misc-with-aet-head-taking-over/India now depends on Russia for 40% of its crude oil imports, according to new analysis from shipping organisation BIMCO, something that has had a notable impact on the aframax and suezmax trades in particular. “Year-to-date, volumes have reached an average of 1.6m barrels per day, an increase of 1,000% compared to 2021, before Russia …
https://splash247.com/indian-imports-of-russian-oil-leap-by-1000-since-start-of-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/
https://splash247.com/indian-imports-of-russian-oil-leap-by-1000-since-start-of-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/Mozambique has emerged on the dry bulk map, with exports tripling over the space of the last decade. Much of this growth has been down to the expansion of coal trade from Nacala port, but it is being supplemented by trend growth in ore and concentrate exports from other terminals, according to new analysis from …
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