WINDEA CTV, a partnership of Hornblower Wind and MidOcean Wind, has taken delivery of the first two vessels in a series of five windfarm crewboats. The bespoke all-aluminium WINDEA Courageous and WINDEA Intrepid will be operated at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in New Bedford,...
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VESSEL REVIEW | eWolf – First US-built all-electric tug joins Crowley’s ship assist fleet
US shipping company Crowley Maritime Corporation will soon place a new all-electric ship assist tug into service at the Port of San Diego. Named eWolf, the tug was designed by Seattle-based Crowley Engineering Services and built at the Coden, Alabama facilities of Master Boat Builders. Crowley...
VESSEL REVIEW | Arctic Fjord – Alaska pollock trawler to be deployed in Bering Sea
Seattle-based seafood company the Arctic Storm Management Group has taken delivery of a new trawler-processor optimised for catching Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea. The Jones Act-compliant Arctic Fjord was designed by Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime and built at the Houma, Louisiana facilities of Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors. The newbuild, which replaces a similarly named vessel originally […]
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VESSEL REVIEW | Icon of the Seas – Royal Caribbean’s newest LNG-powered ship can house 5,600 guests
US cruise company Royal Caribbean International recently commenced operational sailings of its newest ship, the 5,600-guest Icon of the Seas. Built by Meyer Turku of Finland, the lead ship of Royal Caribbean’s three-strong Icon-class measures 1,196 by 159 feet (364.75 by 48.47 metres) and has a...
VESSEL REVIEW | General Marshall – Seventh dredger joins Callan Marine’s waterway maintenance fleet
Galveston, Texas-based dredging and marine construction company Callan Marine recently welcomed a newbuild large cutter suction dredger (CSD) to its fleet. Named after famed American World War II general and former US Secretary of State George C. Marshall, General Marshall was built by DSC Dredge at its facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi. It is the […]
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VESSEL REVIEW | Cape Hatteras & Cape Canaveral – Great Lakes Dredge and Dock acquires pipe-lay and anchor handling workboats
Houston-based marine projects specialist Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) has expanded its fleet of vessels following the delivery of two new workboats built by Conrad Shipyard of Morgan City, Louisiana. Cape Hatteras and Cape Canaveral belong to a series of shallow-draught workboats designed by Netherlands-based the Damen Shipyards Group to perform numerous roles […]
OPINION | Drought and war hit the choke points
As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again. The disruption inevitably works its way through to the Asia Pacific. Take the Panama...
OPINION | Shipping oil through troubled waters
Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have had almost no impact on the oil price, despite the volume of oil shipped through the waterway surging 80 per cent over the last two years because of the war in the Ukraine. Markets more worried about a soft global economy and rising US and Brazilian oil […]
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COLUMN | 2024 by the numbers: Cableships; methanol; the Nigerian Navy; BP and Equinor’s wind woes; Noble in Suriname and Colombia [Offshore Accounts]
We’ve passed Twelfth Night, so let’s look at some key numbers for the year ahead. This week’s lucky lottery numbers are 4, 10, 29, 177, and 470,000. Who is feeling lucky? Four newbuilds for wind: #1 Toyo Nature abhors a vacuum, and as Global Marine Systems, for two decades the former cablelay market leader, sinks […]
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COLUMN | The Twelve Days of Christmas 2023, final edition: ten spot anchor handlers; eleven foreign vessels for Hornbeck Offshore, and the new twelve labours of Hercules Supply in China [Offshore Accounts]
Merry Christmas! On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping and so on, all the way back to that partridge in a pear tree from day one of the old festive carol. But not here, as, for the fourth year in a […]