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Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Charters Roundup – January 21, 2022
Offshore vessel operators welcome the new year with new work on behalf of clients, mainly in the installation and IMR segments. The charters are for activities in Western ..
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Deployed to Africa, USS ‘Woody’ Williams Key Platform to Train, Engage Partners in Piracy Hotspot
Members of a Brazilian Navy Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) team participate in a drill aboard the Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB-4) as part of Operation Guinex, Aug. 23, 2021. US Navy Photo
The small, rigid-hulled inflatable boat sped from the Brazilian Navy Frigate BNS Independencia (F-44) last week, taking an armed boarding team to a ship suspected of harboring illicit or piracy activities off western Africa’s coast.
It was just a practice drill, though, for...
Ten sentenced in Nigeria over fishing vessel hijacking
A federal court in Lagos, Nigeria, has found ten individuals guilty of hijacking a foreign-flagged fishing vessel and imposed a 12-year prison sentence on each of the def ..
Hydrocarbon exposure leaves two dead on FPSO in Côte d’Ivoire
Two people are confirmed to have died in an incident on a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel operated by BW Offshore in Côte d’Ivoire on ..
Construction begins on new Côte d’Ivoire container terminal
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has commenced construction on a new container terminal near the Côte d’Ivoire city of Abidjan. The facility will be the ..
Nigerian Navy rescues 18 fishermen from hijacked vessel in Gulf of Guinea
The Nigerian Navy has successfully rescued all 18 crewmembers of a Chinese-flagged fishing vessel that had been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea. The incident ..
Navy Says Africa Mission More About Building Partnerships, Less About Countering China
Master-at-Arms 1st Class Michael Welch, a tactical supervisor assigned to the Embarked Security Team deployed from Task Force 68 aboard the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City (T-EPF 7) stands watch as the ship departs Tema, Ghana, July 26, 2019. US Navy Photo
THE PENTAGON — The current African Partnership Station mission in the Gulf of Guinea aboard the USNS Carson City (T-EPF-7) seeks to help partner nations improve their security and prosperity, not to rival the...
Seadrill Partners takes $20m hit from semi-tender termination
Seadrill’s Seadrill Partners has received an early termination notice for a contract for semi-submersible self-erecting tender assisted drilling rig . The semi-tender rig was contracted for work offshore Cote d’Ivoire commencing in the third quarter of this year. West Vencedor has just come off...
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