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BOXBAY, a joint venture high-bay storage system between SMS Group and DP World originally installed in Dubai, is coming to Europe for the first time, signing a contract worth around $100m to build a facility at DP World’s London Gateway port. The 27,000 teu BOXBAY installation will be dedicated to empty container handling, stacking containers …
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https://splash247.com/boxbay-brings-vertical-thinking-to-london-gateway/UK-headquartered Zodiac Maritime has achieved another shipbuilding first, becoming the first client of Samsung Heavy Industries’ newly controlled Vietnam shipyard, committing to three firm conventionally fuelled suezmax tankers with options, priced at $80m per unit and delivering in 2028. Each vessel, with a capacity of approximately 157,000 dwt, will be constructed by Samsung Heavy at …
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https://splash247.com/zodiac-maritime-takes-the-plunge-with-suezmax-orders-in-vietnam/Taylor Maritime has remained one of the most active sellers in the geared bulker segment. The London-listed outfit has now sold 50 ships since 2023, as the Ed Buttery-led owner continues to streamline its fleet in a buoyant secondhand market. The latest disposals include four completed sales during and just after the third quarter, generating …
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https://splash247.com/taylor-maritime-hits-50-vessel-sales-milestone/The oil markets are in flux today as tanker trades retrench and Russia’s two largest buyers of oil pause buying the fuel that has helped fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine for the past three and a half years. News has emerged in the past 24 hours that, following Donald Trump’s sanctions this week on Rosneft …
https://splash247.com/china-and-india-step-back-from-russian-oil-under-us-pressure/
https://splash247.com/china-and-india-step-back-from-russian-oil-under-us-pressure/A new “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook” by the MIT Maritime Consortium aims to set the standard for safe maritime nuclear propulsion.Using research data and standards, combined with operational experiences during civilian maritime nuclear operations…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/mit-maritime-consortium-releases-nuclear-531491
https://www.marinelink.com/news/mit-maritime-consortium-releases-nuclear-531491On March 14, 1975, 22-year-old Californian woman Donna Tobias graduated from the US Navy Second Class Dive School to become the first woman deepsea diver in the Navy.Marking the 50th anniversary of women’s integration into the US Navy Diving community…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/women-navy-divers-meet-standards-men-531492No civilian maritime nuclear facilities have been commissioned in over four decades, but there’s been three major reports released this month on their future potential.DNV’s latest report, Maritime nuclear propulsion: Technologies, commercial viability…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/safeguarding-security-nuclearpowered-531495
https://www.marinelink.com/news/safeguarding-security-nuclearpowered-531495Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland have made a microscopic “ocean” on a silicon chip to miniaturise the study of wave dynamics.The device, made at UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics, uses a layer of superfluid helium only…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/microscopic-wave-machine-mimics-ocean-531496
https://www.marinelink.com/news/microscopic-wave-machine-mimics-ocean-531496Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF has been awarded extensions for two of its multi-purpose support vessels (MPSV) operating in Guyana. The company said in an Oslo Bors filing that the contracts of the 2009-built Skandi Nomad and Skandi Constructor had been extended by one year each. Financial details were not revealed. Following the extensions, the …
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https://splash247.com/dof-secures-one-year-extensions-for-two-vessels-in-guyana/Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group company based in Tokyo, held a christening and launch ceremony for the WAKASHIO MARU, a training ship for National Institute of Technology, Toyama College (NIT, Toyama College).
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