Offshore wind contractor Seaway 7 may be looking at a potential delay in the delivery of its new foundation installation vessel Alfa Lift after an accident at Chinese yard China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI). The Oslo-based firm said the incident involved the vessel’s main crane, specifically a...
https://splash247.com/crane-accident-may-delay-delivery-of-seaway-7-wind-farm-installation-newbuild/
Norwegian shipowner Solstad Offshore said Wednesday that the charterer of the platform supply vessel had exercised the option to extend the current contract by one year. The 2011-built PSV was contracted by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia back in April 2017 for a firm period of four years and eight...
https://splash247.com/conocophillips-extends-solstad-psv-contract/
Announcing NBCC’s Aurora Business Awards & The Fridtjof Nansen Award
NBCC Newsletter | October 2021
Dear members and friends,
We are now entering the final quarter of 2021, and the start of winter. While this is traditionally a period of ‘slowing down’, I feel that as we put the last 18 months behind us there is also a feeling of new energy and hope as we anticipate, and work towards, a time of rejuvenation, rebuilding, and growth.
The NBCC has a number of...
Arne Blystad’s Songa Box continues to add tonnage with Alphaliner reporting the company has swooped for two Vroon ships, the 1,118 teu Ionian Express, set to be renamed Songa Lynx, and the 1,795 teu Bahamian Express, which is to be renamed Songa Lioness. No prices have been revealed for the latest...
Subsea 7 has won new long-term contracts from Brazil’s Petrobras worth between $500m and $750m for the pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) Seven Waves, Seven Rio and Seven Sun. The vessels will commence their new contracts next year, with Seven Waves starting in Q1 followed by Seven Rio and Seven Sun...
https://splash247.com/subsea-7-wins-petrobras-charter-for-three-pipelay-support-vessels/
Norwegian shipowner Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC), through a subsidiary, has concluded the sale of the oldest vessel in its fleet. The object of the transaction is ..
Rendering of a Type 212
New diesel-electric attack submarine (SSK) programs for NATO members Italy, Norway and Germany are indicative of the developing trends in the conventional submarine market for stealthier attack boats.
These countries are all developing the Type 212 SSK design for their navies. Italy is using it to enhance its domestic SSK manufacturing capability, while a Norwegian-German program is piloting the first-ever joint SSK construction program through its initial stages.
Italy’s...
Norwegian floatel contractor Edda Accommodation has been awarded a new contract by Chevron for the 2011-built in Australia. The world’s first purpose build offshore accommodation and service vessel will commence its contract in the second quarter of 2022. It will provide accommodation and...
https://splash247.com/edda-accommodation-seals-chevron-contract-in-australia/
Navig8 has exercised an option to sell the 2018-built 110,600 dwt LR2 tankers Navig8 Pride and Navig8 Providence, currently on a long-term charter from Norway’s Ocean Yield. The vessels are owned by a joint venture owned 50% by Ocean Yield. Navig8 had an option to acquire or sell the vessels to...
John Fredriksen’s Northern Drilling has cancelled another resale contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), this time for the ultra-deepwater drillship due to a delay of delivery as well as a repudiatory breach of contract. The company’s subsidiary, West Libra Inc, has made...
https://splash247.com/fredriksen-terminates-another-drillship-deal-with-dsme/