Dakota Creek Industries (DCI) of Anacortes, Washington, recently handed over a new oil spill response barge to Alaska-based Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Designed by the Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) of Seattle, the vessel has been named Allison Creek after a creek in Valdez, Alaska. The...
Spain’s Zamakona Yards has handed over a new large rescue vessel to Spanish maritime search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo. Heroinas de Salvora (“Heroines of Salvora”) has a length of 82.35 metres, a beam of 18 metres, and accommodations for 16 crewmembers and 24 additional personnel....
Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting...
The Government of Guyana has selected French shipbuilder OCEA for the construction of a new offshore patrol vessel (OPV) for operation by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF). The vessel will have an aluminium hull, a length of 58 metres, space for 24 crewmembers and up to 30 additional personnel, a...
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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Spain’s Zamakona Yards has begun conducting sea trials of a new large rescue ship ordered by Spanish maritime search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo. The vessel has been named Heroinas de Salvora (“Heroines of Salvora”) in honour of Cipriana Oujo Maneiro, Josefa Parada, and María...
Bollinger Shipyards of Houma, Louisiana laid the keel of the US Navy’s tenth Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship (T-ATS) in a ceremony on Wednesday, March 20. The future USNS Muscogee Creek Nation honours the self-governed Native American tribe located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The...
Polish shipbuilder Baltic Operator laid the keel of a new offshore patrol vessel (OPV) slated for the Finnish Border Guard in a ceremony in Gdansk on Tuesday, March 12. Construction of the OPV is being undertaken by Baltic Operator in cooperation with Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku and in compliance...
Canadian towage company HaiSea Marine, a joint venture business formed by the Haisla Nation of British Columbia and local shipping line Seaspan, has taken delivery of the first in a new series of two LNG-fuelled ASD tugs that will be used primarily to escort gas carriers between the Pacific Ocean...
US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has confirmed that the future Navajo-class Towing, Salvage, and Rescue (T-ATS) ship will be named in honour of James D. Fairbanks, member of the Chippewa Tribe and the 13th Force Master Chief Petty Officer of the Naval Construction Battalions (“Seabees”)....