The greatest maritime security problem currently facing the world is the campaign of attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea and its environs by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The campaign is adding costs and is delaying too many ships’ voyages, as they now often have taken a much longer route around...
by John Konrad (gCaptain) In the Red Sea, Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) is witnessing a gradual increase in naval strength. Led by the United States, OPG warships from different nations…
https://gcaptain.com/allied-warships-trickle-into-red-sea-coalition/
Sri Lanka Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Advantis Group, and Damen Shipyards have signed a contract for the delivery of two new ASD Tug 2312 tugboats. This is the first time that the two organisations have done business together, and the vessels are already being built at Damen’s Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam.
The vessels will be delivered in mid-2024 and will join the company’s existing three anchor handling tugs and harbour tugs and will represent a significant increase in capability. They...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/sri-lanka-shipping-company-orders-two-damen-tugs/
The US government, through the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has committed more than US$553 million to support the development of a deepwater shipping container terminal in the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka. The financing in the form of private sector loans is being provided...
On the island of Sri Lanka, strategically located along one of the most important global trade arteries, the world’s top two economies are vying for influence. After years of China spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop port infrastructure in the South Asian nation, the US has entered...
https://splash247.com/us-commits-553m-to-develop-sri-lankan-terminal/
Norwegian shipping company Misje Rederi has taken delivery of the second and third bulk carriers in a series of ten to be built by Colombo Dockyard (CDPLC) of Sri Lanka. Misje Verde and Misje Viola belong to the same series of 5,000DWT bulk carriers designed in compliance to DNV class rules. The...
To compete strategically with the United States and undermine President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy, China has quietly been advancing its stealthy divide-and-conquer foreign policy agenda on four different but connected frontiers. The core of Beijing’s comprehensive plan can be described as a “blue dragon” strategy, anchored primarily between two “unsinkable aircraft carriers”, Sri Lanka and […]
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Last week we looked at Britoil’s acquisition of 30 offshore supply vessels (OSVs) from Vroon for a price we estimated to be in the region of US$239 million, and the acquisition of the Vroon Offshore Services management teams in Singapore and Italy. We noted how the Dutch Bank ING had foolishly cut a side deal […]
Colombo Dockyard’s Rapid Response Afloat Repair Services (RRARS) division recently attended to the bulk carrier, Pavo Brave, which entangled its propeller with a steel buoy in Bangladesh, thereby shutting propulsion down immediately. The vessel’s management company, MMS Co. Ltd, Japan, contacted the yard’s parent company, Onomichi Dockyard, and sought its assistance. Thereafter Colombo Dockyard arranged safe berthing at Hambantota Port and got ready to repair the propulsion system.
RRARS has...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/colombo-dockyard-carries-out-major-afloat-propeller-repair/
French subsea company Orange Marine has taken delivery of a new cable-laying vessel built by Colombo Dockyard of Sri Lanka. The vessel has been named Sophie Germain in honour of a famed 19th century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. It was designed by Norway’s Vard Design in...