Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) reports that the first stage of a long-running Small Vessels Replacement Program (SVRP) to procure seven new electric ferries for the Clyde and Hebrides is underway.
CMAL is the Scottish Government owned entity that owns the ferries, ports and harbors and infrastructure necessary to deliver ferry services serving the West coast of Scotland and the Clyde Estuary. It says that the first stage of the competitive tender process will assess if shipyards...
Harold Macmillan was supposedly once asked what the most troubling problem of his time as British Prime Minister was. “Events, my dear boy, events,” was his reply. I thought I had this week’s column nailed well in advance, but offshore is an industry especially susceptible to unexpected and hard to predict “events”. So, we must […]
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UK news outlets report that a hybrid electric ferry belonging to Scottish operator Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) has been forced to run exclusively on diesel fuel for some time and will continue to do so well into the following year. The 2021-built ferry Hallaig, which can transport 150 passengers...
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… a partridge in a pear tree, according to the ancient English carol, but here at Baird Maritime, that’s the cue for a dozen topical features on the offshore industry. Lovers of yuletide traditions – and even those of you who are checking your phone […]
This week was a great week for Transocean – the company announced it had secured a three-year award for the newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Aquila with Petrobras for work offshore Brazil starting next year on a day rate of around US$443,000 plus 90 days’ worth of mobilisation fees. In 2021, Transocean bought the rig for […]
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Tidewater’s Pac Man-like expansion continues, and the market loves the strategy. Tidewater stock finished up 10 per cent on the week on Friday, July 7, at a record high ..
No sooner had we written last week’s article on the stream of new building commissioning service offshore vessels (CSOVs) by Edda Wind and North Star Shipping than Puru ..
The UK’s National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has written to Kevin Stewart, the new Transport Minister in the Scottish government, to demand ..
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It has been nearly six months since we whacked out one of our quick updates (last one here), so it is time to whip through the latest developments in our favourite compan ..
Nobody ever accused me of suffering from common sense, but I hope I can recognise it in others. One of the joys of writing for Baird Maritime is that my fellow columnists ..
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