Bourbon Subsea Services has been awarded a contract by Windplus to install three floating wind turbines off Viana do Castelo, Portugal. The project includes project management, engineering and the procurement of the complete mooring system. Bourbon will provide a variety of marine assets required...
https://splash247.com/bourbon-subsea-services-secures-windfarm-installation-contract/
After the collision of the ferry ‘Ulysse’ with the container ship ‘CSL Virginia’ oil had spilled along the Corsica, in France’s Riviera. Now, reports mention that thick oil has been washed up along the beaches, which volunteers try to get rid of with shovels and sacks.
The clean-up operation is occurring on beaches in Saint-Tropez and Ramatuelle. This is not the first time that Riviera is hit, as last year it faced forest fires, and now oil pollution, Roland Bruno, mayor of Ramatuelle, said.
Accor...
https://safety4sea.com/oil-washed-at-french-riviera-after-ferry-and-container-ship-collision/
QUECHEN SILICON CHEMICAL, the world’s 3rd-largest manufacturer of silica for green tires, has signed a ground lease to build its new European factory in Fos-sur-Mer in the South of France.
The largest Chinese industrial investment for a new factory in France has taken another major step forward with the signature of a ground lease between Quechen and the Port of Marseille Fos. This move means the site surveys necessary for construction can now be started and the factory is expected to be...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/19/newqs-from-port-of-marseille-fos/
India’s major infrastructure developer Adani Group and French energy giant Total have announced a partnership to develop LNG import terminals and fuel retailing network in India to serve the fast growing gas demand in the country. The two companies will jointly develop various regasification LNG...
https://splash247.com/adani-and-total-partner-up-to-develop-lng-terminals/
Angela Merkel
Commentary: Merkel setback hurts EMU reform odds
By David Marsh in Bali
The stunning setback for Germany’s coalition parties in Sunday’s Bavarian state elections will toughen Chancellor Angela Merkel’s already difficult task of winning consensus for reforming and strengthening the structure of European economic and monetary union. The Bavarian debacle will narrow further Merkel’s room for policy manoeuvre both over budgetary squabbles with Italy and over the wider issue of...
CMA CGM’s newbuild 10,000 teu boxship hit a pier at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in India on Saturday while it was attempting to berth at the port. The bow of the ship and the pier both suffered minor damage and no injuries were reported in the incident. According to local reports, preliminary...
https://splash247.com/cma-cgm-boxship-runs-into-pier-at-jawaharlal-nehru-port/
The ferry ‘Ulysse’ has left the Corsica and is now heading to Tunisia, as it got clearance to leave the scene of its collision with the container ship ‘CSL Virginia’ off the coast of Corsica in the Mediterranean, on October 7.
The containership has not moved and is currently at anchor surrounded by anti-pollution boom, while its owner is preparing to transport the ship to a shipyard.
Anti-pollution vessels are still reporting and cleaning thick fuel oil.
The container ship ‘CSL Virginia’ collided...
https://safety4sea.com/ferry-ulysse-left-corsica-after-collision-with-container-ship/
A combination of wave activity and work by salvors finally managed last night to disentangle two ships that had collided north of Corsica on Sunday. At around 9.30pm last night the Tunisian ropax Ulysse was freed from the hull of the boxship . The bulbous bow of the ropax has been destroyed and...
https://splash247.com/ropax-finally-separated-from-boxship-off-corsica/
As the Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and the Mediterranean informed, the ferry ‘Ulysses’ has been released from the container ship ‘Virginia’, on October 11. This comes after the first attempt to separate the ships earlier this week, which was unsuccessful.
Namely, with combined movements the team responsible for the operation managed to separate the ‘Ulysses’ from ‘Virginia’.
Currently, ‘Ulysses’ stays on the spot, while all means on area are mobilized to secure the ships and prevent an...
https://safety4sea.com/ferry-separated-from-container-ship-in-corsica/
India and France announced their plan to launch satellites aimed for maritime surveillance, as French space agency CNES chief Jean-Yves Le Gall informed. The satellites will focus on the Indian Ocean and they will constitute India’s largest space cooperation with any country.
The satellites will be monitoring sea traffic management, a CNES official noted, adding they will probably launch in about five years.
ISRO and CNES will now work together to design and develop techniques to monitor assets...
https://safety4sea.com/india-france-to-launch-satellites-for-maritime-surveillance/