Jumbo turns to Alewijnse for safety and efficiency of its heavy lift vessels
Jumbo Maritime, part of the JSI Alliance with SAL Heavy Lift and Intermarine, has turned to Alewijnse for the upgrade of the alarm, monitoring, and…
UHT and Dongbang form a heavy transport alliance
United Heavy Transport (UHT) and Dongbang Transport Logistics (Dongbang) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to combine expertise in heavy lift vessels and heavy…
Charter rates
Charter rates continue to shoot up sharply
Demand for multipurpose vessels is booming. The charter rates have shot up by 7.6% month on month to USD 8,902 on average, shows Toepfer’s Multipurpose Shipping…
Shipping
Spliethoff experiments with “nose job” for P-Type vessels
Dutch breakbulk and project carrier Spliethoff is experimenting with a new bulbous design to improve the efficiency of its recently acquired fleet of P-Type heavy-lift…
Shipping
UHL partnered with Kurt Zech to acquire new F900 vessels
United Heavy Lift’s eight new F900 Ecolift vessels have been financed by the Gustav Zech Fund of Bremen entrepreneur Kurt Zech, who was also the…
Offshore
Heerema’s heavy-lift sisters meet in Rotterdam
Crane vessel Thialf arrived next to the Sleipnir at the Landtong Rozenburg on Saturday 5 December. The semi-submersible crane ship is in the Netherlands for…
Charter rates
Charter rates have bottomed out
The charter rates for multipurpose vessels have bottomed out. Toepfer’s Multipurpose Shipping Index for July shows the rates bouncing back a notch to 6,391 dollars…
Decommissioning
Coronavirus likely to spur decommissioning frenzy
With few profitable investment opportunities left as a result of the coronavirus, oil companies will likely increase their spending on decommissioning contracts. Global projects through…
Restructuring
Media: Zeamarine is disposing of vessels
Zeamarine is reportedly disposing of vessels to deal with its financial losses. The fast-growing shipping company last month announced that it has hired a restructuring…
SAL Heavy Lift expands fleet with three large vessels
SAL Heavy Lift will buy three “large ladies” capable of lifting 800 tonnes from Heino Winter Group. The vessels will join SAL’s global semi-liner service…