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Offshore vessel owner Tidewater has secured another North Sea contract for one of its platform supply vessels, with brokers reporting that the PSV Enea has been fixed to UK independent oil and gas producer EnQuest. The 2010-built vessel has been chartered for six weeks firm from June, with at least four one-week extension options attached …
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https://splash247.com/tidewater-bags-fresh-north-sea-psv-deal-with-enquest/Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has lined up a potential long-term contract for its flagship subsea construction vessel Normand Maximus after signing a letter of intent with an unnamed international subsea contractor. The Oslo-listed company said the deal is expected to start in the first quarter of 2027 and would run on a firm …
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https://splash247.com/solstad-lines-up-long-term-work-for-flagship-csv/Evangelos Efstathiou is not short of ambition. The CEO of Burmester & Vogel – a self-described geek who has spent the better part of two decades quietly building what he believes will become the data backbone of global shipping – sat down with Maritime CEO at last week’s Geneva Dry to share his vision, a …
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https://splash247.com/burmester-vogel-i-want-to-build-the-bloomberg-of-shipping/Hormuz, the Red Sea, the Black Sea and the Baltic are exposing the gap between maritime law and maritime reality, write Dr Deniece Aiken and Professor Ulla Tapaninen. The crises in Hormuz, the Red Sea, the Black Sea and the Baltic are not only tests of shipping resilience. They are tests of whether international maritime …
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https://splash247.com/when-the-sea-stops-being-free/ZIM’s board of directors was forced yesterday to issue a public statement reaffirming that its merger agreement with Hapag-Lloyd and Israeli private equity fund FIMI is legally binding, after an unexpected rival bid from Israeli businessman Haim Sakal sent the shipping company’s share price surging 9.5% on Wall Street. Sakal submitted an offer of $4.5bn …
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https://splash247.com/hapag-lloyd-deal-tested-as-zim-receives-richer-unsolicited-offer/The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has issued a ban on the bulk carrier FPMC B Forever, the third such ban in just two months. Formosa Plastics Marine Corporation stands accused of underpaying its crew and breaching the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC). AMSA boarded the Liberia-flagged vessel last month in the port of Newcastle for …
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https://splash247.com/taiwanese-bulker-banned-from-australia-over-unpaid-crew-wages/A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet launched from USS Abraham Lincoln has disabled the Iranian-flagged VLCC Hasna in the Gulf of Oman after the vessel allegedly attempted to breach the American naval blockade of Iran’s ports. US Central Command said the aircraft fired its 20 mm cannon at the ship’s rudder after the crew of …
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https://splash247.com/gunboat-diplomacy-returns-to-hormuz/The final session of Geneva Dry’s opening day tackled what many in the room consider the dry bulk industry’s most existential question: in a world of instant data, AI-powered analysis and algorithmic trading, what exactly is the broker for? The answer, delivered with candour and occasional humour by a panel of owners, charterers and a …
A consortium led by the University of Vaasa has been awarded Horizon Europe funding for the H4PERION – Hydrogen FOR Performance Enhancement and Reliable Ice OperatioN – project which aims to demonstrate how a large vessel can operate with a…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/europe-funds-largevessel-hydrogen-project-538892The Maritime Safety Committee meets for its 111th session from 13-22 May 2026.The meeting is expected to adopt the goal-based International Code of Safety for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS Code).The MASS Code aims to address the functions needed for safe…
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