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American Roll-On/Roll-Off Carrier Group Inc. (ARC Group) announced that it has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide national “cross-dock” and incident base…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/arc-group-receives-fema-award-542337
https://www.marinelink.com/news/arc-group-receives-fema-award-542337New York-listed offshore driller Transocean has revealed the details of its recently awarded drillship contract with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). ONGC revealed earlier this week that it hired the 2010-built ultra-deepwater drillship, Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2, for work offshore India. This was the second ultra-deepwater drillship the company has hired following the $261m deal …
https://splash247.com/transocean-to-rake-in-300m-from-recent-drillship-deal/
https://splash247.com/transocean-to-rake-in-300m-from-recent-drillship-deal/Venezuela's dilapidated oil port terminals are imposing a de facto export cap on the country's resurgent crude production, with tankers having to wait up to 30 days to load because of ageing infrastructure, power outages and quality issues, according to shipping data…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/decrepit-port-infrastructure-vessels-542326
https://www.marinelink.com/news/decrepit-port-infrastructure-vessels-542326MacGregor has secured a contract to supply a 165-ton active heave compensated (AHC) crane for a newbuild Ulstein SX121 vessel ordered by Jan De Nul and under construction at China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) shipyard. The order is part of a 1+1 vessel program…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/macgregor-supply-crane-ulstein-sx-vessel-542328Romania destroyed a maritime drone near OMV Petrom’s Neptun Deep gas platform in the Black Sea on Thursday. The drone, loaded with explosives, was spotted several hundred meters from the platform’s gas extraction operations at around 6:28 am local time. Two fighter jets were scrambled, with one hitting the drone, after which it continued drifting. …
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https://splash247.com/explosive-drone-destroyed-near-omv-petrom-gas-platform/With only a few years in shipowning, Dubai-based SPM Shipping has now added its first VLGC after moving into both the capesize and VLCC segments. The company has been named as the buyer of Dorian LPG’s 2015-built, 84,000 cu m Clermont, paying $91m for the Hyundai Samho-built vessel. VesselsValue sales registers show that SPM Shipping is the …
https://splash247.com/spm-shipping-enters-gas-shipping-with-91m-vlgc-buy/
https://splash247.com/spm-shipping-enters-gas-shipping-with-91m-vlgc-buy/Hong Kong-based ASL Shipping is making a sizeable jump in ship size with an order for two firm 5,300 teu containerships at CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding, with options for two more. The vessels will be built to Huangpu Wenchong’s own series design, measuring 235 m long and 37.5 m wide with around 71,500 dwt. No …
https://splash247.com/asl-scales-up-with-huangpu-wenchong-boxship-order/
https://splash247.com/asl-scales-up-with-huangpu-wenchong-boxship-order/A new independent report has called for urgent international intervention in the case of two senior seafarers convicted of drug trafficking in Türkiye, arguing that serious gaps in the evidence raise the prospect of a “grave miscarriage of justice”. Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) has examined the convictions of Syrian-born, Finnish citizen chief officer Ali …
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https://splash247.com/missing-evidence-clouds-phoenician-m-cocaine-convictions/A US-sanctioned product tanker has been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and forced towards Somalia, the second reported vessel seizure in the region this week as Somali piracy gathers renewed momentum. UK Maritime Trade Operations said the incident occurred around 136 nautical miles east of Al Mukalla, Yemen, after the vessel broadcast a distress …
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https://splash247.com/sanctioned-tanker-hijacked-in-gulf-of-aden/Shipping is betting on more ships thanks, in no small part, to the disruption created by fewer reliable routes. That contradiction ran through much of Splash’s coverage this week. Panama, Hormuz, the Houthis, Somali pirates and the Black Sea were constant presences in our reporting. Different threats, different causes, same result: the arteries of global …
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