Port workers across Argentina will strike for 24 hours, starting at 12:00 am on Friday, in a continuation of their campaign to get access to Covid vaccinations. After a work stoppage in May, port workers were told by the government on May 26 that they would be classified as essential workers and...
https://splash247.com/nine-argentine-port-unions-hold-another-strike-to-gain-access-to-vaccines/
In January 2021, just days after he became president, Joe Biden signed an executive order pausing new oil and gas leases on federal lands and offshore waters to provide a period for a review of the program’s climate impacts. (It did not prevent companies from drilling on existing leases.) That...
https://splash247.com/us-oil-and-gas-lease-sales-set-to-resume-after-biden-executive-order-blocked/
Houston-headquartered McDermott has been selected by Australian resources giant BHP to carry out a marine installation campaign for the Shenzi subsea multiphase pumping project in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract includes project management, design and fabrication of subsea equipment, transport...
https://splash247.com/mcdermott-awarded-gulf-of-mexico-subsea-contract-by-bhp/
American politicians are discussing taking drastic action to force global liners to take all US export container bookings. A Republican and a Democrat have pitched the idea to the US House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, claiming yesterday American exporters are being discriminated by...
https://splash247.com/congress-discusses-forcing-liners-to-accept-us-export-container-bookings/
JP Morgan Global Maritime has sold its last two kamsarmax sister vessels, the 2013-built 82,000 dwt and the 2015-built . Multiple brokers note that the ships were sold for over $50m en bloc. No buyer has been revealed. JP Morgan Global Maritime acquired the 82,000 dwt bulker Peak Pegasus in a...
https://splash247.com/jp-morgan-global-maritime-exits-kamsarmax-sector/
The Panama Canal has increased the maximum allowable length for commercial and non-commercial vessels transiting the neopanamax locks to 370.33 meters (1,215 feet), up from 367.28 meters (1,205 feet). The increase means that 96.8% of the world’s fleet of containerships can now transit the canal. A...
https://splash247.com/panama-canal-to-allow-larger-vessels-to-transit/
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have partnered to increase renewable energy production and help meet the Biden Administration’s commitment to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. The two federal agencies have entered into an agreement...
https://splash247.com/us-federal-agencies-collaborate-to-meet-offshore-wind-goals/
Norwegian jackup rig owner Borr Drilling has reached an agreement with its joint venture partner in Mexico to sell a 49% stake in its integrated services, Opex and Akal (IWS JVs) and acquire an incremental 2% stake in the joint ventures performing drilling services. The transactions, expected to...
https://splash247.com/borr-drilling-streamlines-operations-in-mexico/
With this week’s International Maritime Organization-convened Maritime Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) looking like it will deliver minimal additional green targets for shipping, over in Congress in Washington DC politicians are once again preparing to take emissions matters into their own...
Fenix Marine Services, a container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles that handles about 2m teu a year, has transitioned its entire fleet of more than 300 pieces of container-handling equipment, as well as some support vehicles, from fossil-based diesel fuel to renewable diesel fuel, a blend made...