Iranian forces seized a containership operated by Switzerland-based MSC in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, April 13. The Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries was some 80 kilometres off the coast of the UAE when it was boarded by Iranian heliborne troops, who subsequently ordered the crew to bring the...
Best Medium SAR Boat – Orinoco – Baltic Workboats Over recent years Estonia-based Baltic Workboats has become globally renowned for its strong, safe, efficient, attractive and economical work, pilot SAR and patrol boats. They have been exported widely and that is a very good sign. This particularly...
Flotte Hamburg, a subsidiary of Germany’s Hamburg Port Authority, has placed an order for a new pilot boat to be built by Baltic Workboats of Estonia. The vessel, which will be named Hamburg Pilot 1, will have an LOA of 17.95 metres, a beam of 5.87 metres, a draught of only 1.5 metres, a...
Best Medium Pilot Boat – Shipeku – Baltic Workboats Estonia’s Baltic Workboats is constantly increasing the depth and breadth of its market. This fine, fast wave-piercing aluminium pilot boat will operate in the Gulf of St Lawrence from Montreal in Canada. The self-righting vessel is ice-capable as...
Best Medium Patrol Boat – Balchik – Baltic Workboats At 45 metres LOA, this patrol boat is nearing the maximum size of boats built, to date, by the fast growing Estonian aluminium boat designer and builder Baltic Workboats (BWB). Much of BWB’s production is for export and, as it was built for the...
Ignitis Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have won an auction-based tender for the development of offshore wind in the Liivi 1 sea area in Estonia. The tender took place from January 11 to January 17, 2024, and Ignitis and CIP placed the highest bid in the amount of €1.165m...
https://splash247.com/ignitis-and-cip-grab-one-more-estonian-offshore-wind-area/
On 11 December 2023, the Estonian State Fleet announced the procurement of a new energy-efficient ferry. The deadline for submission of tenders for the construction and design of the vessel is 17 January 2024. The new Estonian ferry will be unique in the region: A conceptual ferry design and...
Ignitis Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have won the auction to develop an offshore wind farm in the Liivi 2 sea area in Estonia with a total capacity of up to 1.4 GW. The partners placed the highest bid in the amount of €1.72bn ($1.85bn), Ignitis said. Estonia’s Consumer...
https://splash247.com/ignitis-and-cip-claim-estonian-offshore-wind-prize/
Earlier this month, as the world’s attention was focused on the horror unfolding in Israel and Gaza, it was easy to miss the news that two subsea telecommunications cables and a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea had been damaged. On the night of October 7, the 77-kilometre Balticconnector gas pipeline...
VILNIUS, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Estonia’s investigation into a damaged Baltic Sea telecoms cable will focus on the actions of a Chinese-owned vessel, the country’s prosecutor general said, after Finland blamed damage…
https://gcaptain.com/investigation-into-underwater-cable-damage-focusses-on-chinese-ship/