Australia has successfully prosecuted a ship’s master and shipping company, Hong Kong-based Fu Ye Shipping, following a serious accident involving a ship’s pilot in 2023. The accident occurred on May…
https://gcaptain.com/australia-fines-ship-master-and-company-over-serious-pilot-ladder-accident/
Austal Australia refers to media on Monday, April 1, and confirms it has received an unsolicited, conditional, and non-binding indicative proposal from South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to acquire Austal by way of a scheme of arrangement. Under the indicative proposal, Austal shareholders would receive AU$2.825 (US$1.84) cash per Austal share. Hanwha’s indicative proposal is […]
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Researchers in Australia have discovered a massive shipwreck estimated to be approximately 64 metres long lying at the bottom of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia. A small autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by Sydney-based maritime technology company Advanced Navigation...
Top management at Australian shipbuilding group Austal has rejected a $662m bid from South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, citing regulatory worries. Hanwha Ocean, the yard formerly known as Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, has been hunting overseas assets since it was taken over last year. ...
https://splash247.com/austal-knocks-back-takeover-bid-from-hanwha-ocean/
Best Small Ferry – Talwurrapin – Norman R. Wright and Sons One of the best known names in the Australian ferry business delivered this impressively practical small ferry in 2023. Norman R. Wright and Sons has been designing and building first-rate vessels for well over a century and joins the fleet...
The Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) of San Francisco, California has taken delivery of a new fast aluminium catamaran ferry for operation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Delphinus was built by La Conner, Washington-based Mavrik Marine to a design by One2Three Naval Architects of...
Singapore-based offshore wind vessel pure-play Cyan Renewables has made an offer to buy 100% of shares in Perth-based OSV operator MMA Offshore. Cyan, a subsidiary of Cyan Renewables, offered to buy stakes in the Australian company for AUD 2.60 ($1.7) per share. The takeover scheme values MMA’s...
https://splash247.com/cyan-renewables-makes-takeover-offer-for-mma-offshore/
The Australian government has selected UK defence firm BAE Systems and South Australia-based shipbuilder ASC for the construction of Australia’s new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of the AUKUS trilateral security pact between the United States, the UK, and Australia. Under the AUKUS...
Singapore shipbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered a new fast crewboat to Thai offshore support company Truth Maritime Services. Named TMS Ranod, the vessel is the first in a planned series of two crewboats to be built by Strategic Marine to a design by Australian naval architecture firm...
Operations at a mine in the north of Australia were suspended yesterday after a Cypriot-flagged bulk carrier, buffeted by strong cyclone winds, rammed into a pier. Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO), jointly owned by South32 and Anglo-American, was forced to stop operations after the 189 m long...