In the hunt to find the owners of a tug and a barge responsible for one of the Caribbean’s worst oil spills in recent years, a joint investigation carried out by Bellingcat and the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian has laid the finger of blame on a Panama-registered company called Melaj Offshore....
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Tobago oil slick spreads more than 800 km west
Heavy fuel bunker oil leaking from a mysterious 48-year-old capsized barge off the coast of Tobago has spread hundreds of kilometres west to reach the east coast of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire, while authorities in Aruba, another Dutch island, are on alert for the slick washing up on...
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Salvage teams drafted in ongoing Tobago clean-up operation
The government of Trinidad and Tobago has hired overseas help in the ongoing clean-up along its shoreline following a laden barge sinking two weeks ago. Two American firms, T&T Salvage and QT Environmental, have been drafted in. Divers are expected to find and plug leaks on the overturned barge...
https://splash247.com/salvage-teams-drafted-in-ongoing-tobago-clean-up-operation/
Mystery behind Tobago spill partially resolved
The mystery behind last week’s big oil spill off Tobago has been partially resolved. Analysis by Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group, which has subsequently been corroborated by the government of Trinidad and Tobago shows that an articulated tug and barge were...
https://splash247.com/mystery-behind-tobago-spill-partially-resolved/
National emergency in Tobago as mystery ship spews oil
Vessel trackers have been unable to identify the name of a ship which capsized six days ago, creating a national emergency in Tobago as oil rushes up on the Caribbean island’s southwestern shoreline. Divers have not been able to check the 100 m long capsized vessel’s International Maritime...
https://splash247.com/national-emergency-in-tobago-as-mystery-ship-spews-oil/
COLUMN | 2024 by the numbers: Cableships; methanol; the Nigerian Navy; BP and Equinor’s wind woes; Noble in Suriname and Colombia [Offshore Accounts]
We’ve passed Twelfth Night, so let’s look at some key numbers for the year ahead. This week’s lucky lottery numbers are 4, 10, 29, 177, and 470,000. Who is feeling lucky? Four newbuilds for wind: #1 Toyo Nature abhors a vacuum, and as Global Marine Systems, for two decades the former cablelay market leader, sinks […]
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COLUMN | The Twelve Days of Christmas 2023, final edition: ten spot anchor handlers; eleven foreign vessels for Hornbeck Offshore, and the new twelve labours of Hercules Supply in China [Offshore Accounts]
Merry Christmas! On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping and so on, all the way back to that partridge in a pear tree from day one of the old festive carol. But not here, as, for the fourth year in a […]
First GHG inventory for ships completed in Trinidad and Tobago
La Brea Industrial Development Company Limited (LABIDCO) and the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) have completed the “first-of-its-kind” greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventory for ships in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | May 9 – Deliveries to Ireland, Cyprus and the Americas
It’s an all-delivery roundup for this week as we feature newbuild tugs in service with operators in Ireland, Cyprus, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States. Atlanti ..
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VESSEL REVIEW | National Energy Resilience – Tug to support offshore exploration in southern Caribbean
Netherlands-based the Damen Shipyards Group recently delivered a new ASD tug to the National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (NEC), a subsidiary of state-owned ..
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