Schlumberger is cutting 21,000 jobs in response to the pandemic and related oil crisis. CEO Olivier le Peuch says the...Schlumberger cuts 21,000 jobs
PRESS RELEASE – Siemens Gamesa has received two new orders totalling 170 MW for the Cabo Leones I and III...Siemens Gamesa bags 170 MW in new turbine orders for Chile
Using the wind and currents to intercept waste, Allseas has revealed a new waste collection system for rivers called Catchy....Allseas develops waste collector for rivers
Throughput port of Rotterdam falls sharply, but less than feared
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam decreased by 9.1 per cent in the first half of the year compared with 2019, amounting to 218.9 million tonnes. Container throughput was only 3.3 per cent down on...Read more
Shipping ever safer but fires are cause for concern
The number of shipping disasters involving the complete loss of a ship fell to its lowest level ever last year. On the other hand, the growing number of serious fires on container ships is giving...Read more
Swire Blue Ocean lands contract for Scotland’s largest offshore windfarm
PRESS RELEASE – Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) will transport and install the wind turbine generators for the Seagreen offshore windfarm in Scotland. Seagreen is located 27 kilometres off the east coast of Scotland in the...Read more
HEBO lifts bridge deck near Dordrecht into place
The first new movable steel section of the Wantijbrug, near Dordrecht, the Netherlands, has been hoisted into place. The bridge is part of the N3 motorway. The section weighs about 110 tonnes and measures 15...Read more
Plans for larger ‘Pioneering Spirit’ shelved indefinitely
Offshore contractor Allseas has postponed the announced construction of a larger successor to the offshore platform remover Pioneering Spirit indefinitely. Before the corona crisis and the implosion of the oil price, the huge vessel was...Read more
Sleipnir performs its largest single lift jacket removal to date
Heerema’s semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir has removed the 8100-metric-tonne Jotun-B jacket in the Norwegian North Sea for Vår Energi. During this project, skirt piles with diameters of 2.7 meters and 80 millimeters wall thickness were...Read more
Dutch shipowners angry about delay in protection against pirates
Dutch shipowners are angry that entry into force of the Merchant Shipping Protection Act has been delayed. This law allows the use of private armed security on board Dutch ships to protect them from pirates....Read more
AAL ships large cable carousel for Formosa 2 project
PRESS RELEASE – AAL Shipping has delivered a 23-metre diameter cable carousel to Jan De Nul for the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm project, 9.5 kilometres off the coast of north-west Taiwan.Read more
BigLift ships three reactors from Port of Venice to Thailand
PRESS RELEASE – Three mega reactors manufactured by Porto Marghera based ATB Group have left the Port of Venice for Thailand on board BigLift’s heavy load carrier Happy Star. The reactors’ diameters range from 5.4...Read more
Drewry: charter rates won’t recover until end of 2021
Charter rates for multipurpose ships are not expected to recover back to pre-Covid-19 levels until the end of 2021, with the recovery anticipated to take even longer if the global pandemic is not contained, says...Read more
Conoship and Kenzfigee design breakbulk transshipment barge
Ship designer Conoship International and crane specialist KenzFigee have joined forces to design a cost-efficient crane barge combination for the transhipment of dry and breakbulk cargoes.Read more
Wilson CFO: “There should be fewer, bigger players”
The European shortsea sector has been struggling for over a decade. “Consolidation is much needed, says Wilson Shipping’s CFO Stig Vangen. “There should be fewer, bigger players because the options are running out. And it...Read more
Wärtsilä wins 200 MW power plant contract in South America
PRESS RELEASE – Wärtsilä has won a contract to supply a flexible baseload 200 MW power plant to a country in the Northern Andes. The plant will be powered by 11 Wärtsilä 50SG engines running...Read more
Gebrüder Weiss to move equipment for Mars mission
Austrian logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has been awarded a contract to deliver valuable equipment to the Mars Mission Site in Israel, where international research institutes will carry out the simulation mission Amadee-20 to prepare future...Read more
Volga-Dnepr appoints Konstantin Vekshin as new CCO
PRESS RELEASE – Volga-Dnepr Group has appointed Konstantin Vekshin as Chief Commercial Officer. His key objectives will be to implement the company’s marketing directive and sales plan and centralize and digitalize all its sales teams.Read more