Japan’s largest shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop a green corridor connecting Portugal to Northern Europe with the producer of green chemicals and gases Madoqua Renewables. This green corridor project aims to establish a shipping route...
https://splash247.com/mol-to-develop-green-corridor-linking-portugal-and-northern-europe/
German utility RWE has signed an agreement with the Port Authority of Setúbal to adapt the port’s infrastructure and turn it into a floating wind energy hub. The port, located south of Lisboa, will become an important industrial hub for the marshalling, assembling, and deploying key components for...
https://splash247.com/rwe-to-help-develop-portuguese-port-into-floating-wind-logistics-hub/
Norwegian energy giant Equinor has opted to cancel all its offshore wind projects in Spain and Portugal only days after the company closed its Hanoi office and departed from Vietnam. The decision comes as Equinor decided to reign in its spending and to prioritise capital. Another reason is the...
https://splash247.com/after-leaving-vietnam-equinor-nixes-spain-and-portugal-offshore-wind-plans/
Japan’s natural gas provider Tokyo Gas has made an investment in the WindFloat Atlantic operational floating offshore wind farm in Portugal. The wind farm is operated by Windplus, a majority-owned subsidiary of Ocean Winds. This investment is a new collaboration between Tokyo Gas and Ocean Winds,...
https://splash247.com/tokyo-gas-invests-in-floating-wind-farm-off-portugal/
Ocean Winds, an offshore wind player created as a 50-50 joint venture by EDP Renewables and Engie, has formed a strategic partnership with Martifer Renewables & Energy to jointly participate in Portugal’s first tender for offshore wind farms set for later this year. This collaboration brings...
https://splash247.com/ocean-winds-finds-partner-for-upcoming-portuguese-offshore-wind-tender/
Silversea Cruises held a formal naming ceremony for Silver Ray, the company’s newest cruise ship, in Portugal’s capital city of Lisbon on Wednesday, June 12. The newbuild is a sister of Silver Nova, which was delivered to Silversea Cruises in 2023. Construction of both ships was undertaken by...
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/passenger/cruise/silversea-cruises-newest-ship-formally-named/
Every day, the world uses around one hundred million barrels of oil. The term “big oil” is used pejoratively to describe the industry’s lobbying power. But is big always better? This week, we look at both the biggest and the best, and the biggest and the worst of the oil industry. Big finds:...
The government of Iran is set to release all 25 crewmembers of a commercial vessel that local paramilitary forces seized earlier this month, the country’s foreign minister told local media. Hossein Amirabdollahian said that the crew of the containership MSC Aries have been granted consular access...
Portuguese shipbuilder Grupo ETE, via subsidiary Navaltagus, recently handed over a new Ro-Pax ferry to the municipal government of the city of Aveiro on Portugal’s western coast. Designed by local naval architecture firm Vera Navis with the aid of SSI software, the ferry has been named Salicornia...
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...