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Swiss-based offshore drilling giant Transocean has secured a $531m contract from BP for operations in the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract will see drillship Deepwater Invictus on hire for about 1,095 days starting in the first quarter of 2025. The 2014-built floater was previously named as one of the three rigs earmarked for another …
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https://splash247.com/transocean-lands-531m-drillship-contract-in-us-gulf/Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has called for improvements to Canada’s emergency preparedness rules following the release of a report looking into a boxship accident off Vancouver Island three years ago. The ZIM Kingston lost 109 containers — two containing hazardous materials — during dire weather in October 2021, in an accident that also saw …
Luxembourg-based roro operator CLdN has launched a multimillion-pound investment in its Brocklebank terminal at the Liverpool port. The investments are part of CLdN’s plans to increase capacity on its Liverpool-Dublin route. The infrastructure upgrades at the terminal are expected to improve the use of space and enhance the flow of cargo movements while a new …
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https://splash247.com/cldn-invests-in-liverpool-terminal/Greek owner Costamare has confirmed a supramax bulker sale and revealed multiple charter deals for its containership fleet. In its second-quarter earnings report, the New York-listed company has corroborated this month’s brokers’ reports on the deal for the 2009-built Oracle. While S&P sources suggest Vietnamese interests and a price tag of $12.5m, Costamare did not …
https://splash247.com/costamare-confirms-bulker-sale-as-boxship-charters-flow-in/
https://splash247.com/costamare-confirms-bulker-sale-as-boxship-charters-flow-in/The CEO of Finnish shipowner Meriaura, Kirsi Suopelto, has resigned from her position to join a new employer. Suopelto will continue as Meriaura’s CEO until September 30. The company’s board has appointed the current chairman of the board, maritime counsellor Jussi Mälkiä, as the new CEO starting October 1. Board member and vice-chairman Antti Vehviläinen …
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https://splash247.com/meriaura-appoints-new-ceo/Taiwanese shipping line has completed a top management reshuffle with Cliff Pai promoted to president and Feng-Ming Tsai coming onboard as chairman. Pai, formerly chief strategy officer at the line, has been with Yang Ming for the past 40 years. He takes over from Patrick Tu. Tsai, meanwhile, is a professor who holds a Ph …
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https://splash247.com/yang-ming-completes-top-management-reshuffle/The European Commission has launched a ship financing portal in a bid it says to boost the maritime sector’s green transition. The platform, launched by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, provides businesses and organisations with a repository of available financial tools needed to drive fleet renewal and retrofitting, enhance efficiency, and reduce …
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https://splash247.com/european-commission-launches-ship-finance-portal/Remarkably authorities in the Philippines have had to attend to another distressed vessel in Bataan to the west of Manila, a third ship accident in the area in the space of a just one week. Oil was seen flowing into the ocean yesterday from tanks inside the Mirola-1, which ran aground near the shore of …
https://splash247.com/third-ship-spills-oil-in-same-area-of-the-philippines/
https://splash247.com/third-ship-spills-oil-in-same-area-of-the-philippines/Following positive response and encouraging conversations with IMO member nations and other stakeholders, the World Shipping Council (WSC) has further developed the Green Balance Mechanism, a regulatory measure designed to ensure that shipping meets its net-zero goal by 2050 in an efficient…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/wsc-readies-green-balance-mechanism-515593
https://www.marinelink.com/news/wsc-readies-green-balance-mechanism-515593OceanScore has opened a new office in Singapore that will enable it to better serve regional clients as the company sees rising Asian demand for its digital solutions geared towards efficient regulatory compliance with the EU ETS and FuelEU…
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