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...
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...
Whilst the first big consolidator of this offshore upcycle was Tidewater, rapidly followed by ADNOC and AD Ports of Abu Dhabi, Europe is also experiencing a quiet wave of consolidation. Driving this is the biggest of the “Big Four” lowlands dredging and offshore companies, Boskalis. But whereas the gains in Tidewater have been open to […]
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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”)....
Salvage teams from the US and Royal Thai Navies have begun their recovery of portions of the wreckage of a Thai warship that sank along with at least 24 of its crew in late 2022. The salvage operation on the corvette HTMS Sukhothai is being carried out with US assistance as part of an investigation...
Boluda Towage Europe has confirmed its acquisition of the towage and salvage company Resolve Salvage and Fire (Gibraltar). The company is owned by Florida-based the Resolve Marine Group. In addition to providing towing and salvage services, it also specialises in engineering and maintenance...
Chinese shipowner Zhejiang Manyang Shipbuilding Engineering has taken delivery of a multi-role engineering and emergency response vessel built by compatriot company Taizhou Haibin Shipbuilding. Manyang Anlan will perform duties that include port and marine engineering, offshore construction, pipeline maintenance, cable laying, oil spill response, salvage, search and rescue, dive support, and support for unmanned craft […]
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A fire department in California welcomes a response boat into service as a Finnish builder begins construction of a new class of patrol vessels for border guard use. Orders have meanwhile been placed for an emergency towing vessel that will serve outlying islands off Australia and an oil spill response craft that will serve communities […]
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A wise old bird who was given the unenviable task of teaching me to drive a supply boat told me early in the process that I should never take the boat into any situation unless I could see at least two ways to get out of it again when things went wrong. It was excellent […]
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The Chinese Ministry of Transport, through sub-agency South China Sea Rescue Bureau, has taken delivery of a new large rescue vessel. Built by China Merchants Heavy Industry, Nanhai Jiu 103 (“Nanhai Rescue 103”) was designed by the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) of the China Shipbuilding Group. The all-weather-capable vessel was developed […]
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