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The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) signed a purchase agreement to acquire nine Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) from Capital Maritime and Trading Corporation for approximately $1B, the company said.The purchase is part of a modernization drive and will enable the company to star
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/bahri-spend-b-vlcc-vessels-516176The Philippines said China's Coast Guard was not helping efforts to build confidence in the South China Sea, after accusing it of ramming and damaging its vessels in the latest in a succession of altercations.The Philippines urges China to refrain…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/accusations-fly-china-philippines-516177Scuba divers scouring the wreck of British tech magnate Mike Lynch's family yacht, which sank off Sicily two days ago, have found two bodies inside it, a source close to rescue operations said on Wednesday.One of the bodies belonged to a heavily built man…
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/two-bodies-found-inside-sunken-yacht-off-516186German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Meyer Werft on Thursday, the luxury shipbuilder said, raising hopes that it could secure support from the government as it seeks to fill a 2.7 billion euro ($3.00 billion) hole in its finances."We expect the chancellor to bring good news with him," Thomas Gel
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/shipbuilder-meyer-werft-expecting-good-516187Utility company Eversource Energy has been awarded an $89m grant for its Huntsbrook Offshore Wind Hub project in Montville, in the southeast part of Connecticut. The grant was awarded in the second round of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Innovation Program. The Huntsbrook OSW Hub proposal was included in the Power Up New …
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https://splash247.com/us-awards-89m-to-eversources-offshore-wind-hub-in-connecticut/Houston-based Audubon Engineering has been awarded a contract for BP’s Kaskida project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The company will complete topside engineering and design of the Kaskida floating production unit (FPU). According to Audubon, its design philosophies will allow for a faster cycle time and will use experience from previous projects such as …
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https://splash247.com/bp-hands-out-engineering-contract-for-kaskida-topsides/More than 200 people are being drawn in to ramp up the clean-up of oil from the grounded Ultra Galaxy general cargo vessel after the last few days’ wintry and stormy weather on South Africa’s west coast teared the wreck further into pieces. The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) gave an update yesterday, saying …
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https://splash247.com/grounded-vessel-on-south-africas-west-coast-tears-further-into-pieces/More than six months after it grounded, spewing oil into the Caribbean, the Gulfstream barge has been refloated with a dive team now assessing the overturned vessel before it is towed away from Cove in Tobago to Port of Spain in Trinidad. The government of Trinidad & Tobago has yet to officially pinpoint the blame …
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https://splash247.com/grounded-oil-barge-refloated-off-tobago/Arne Blystad-backed Songa Box has gone to the Saverys family to expand. Alphaliner is reporting Songa Box has bought two 2,592 teu class ships from Compagnie Maritime Berge (CMB), the Santa Marta Express and the Puerto Limon Express, paying around $46m for the pair, which are currently on charter to Hapag-Lloyd. The ships were built …
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https://splash247.com/blystads-songa-box-acquires-two-ships-from-cmb/Folk Maritime, a recently established Saudi liner, is being linked to its first vessel purchase. Previously using chartered in tonnage for its three services, brokers now report Folk Maritime has bought the 2023-built Vega Daytona from Germany’s Vega Rederei, paying $33m for the 1,868 teu ship that delivered last year from Zhejiang Yangfan in China. …
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