American carrier Seaboard Marine and German heavylift giant BBC Chartering are looking to pool their respective multipurpose services connecting the US Gulf with the west coast of South America, according to a filing placed by the carriers with the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC). This joint...
https://splash247.com/seaboard-and-bbc-chartering-seek-joint-americas-coverage/
Rolls-Royce and Intel are teaming up to develop autonomous ships. The new vessels the pair aim to develop will have systems with the same technology found in smart cities, autonomous cars and drones. In a release, the pair claim the new shipping intelligence systems will have data centre and...
https://splash247.com/intel-chips-in-on-rolls-royces-autonomous-shipping-drive/
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has secured two new rig contracts according to the company’s latest fleet status report. The company’s 2013-built drillship Noble Don Taylor has been awarded a contract by Talos for drilling operation in the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract will...
https://splash247.com/noble-corporation-secures-two-drillship-contracts/
US exploration and production company LLOG Exploration has placed an order at South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of a semi-submersible floating production system (FPS). Construction of the FPS will start in August next year and delivery is scheduled in the...
https://splash247.com/llog-orders-floating-production-system-at-hyundai-heavy-industries/
Loadsmart, a New York-headquartered digital freight broker, has raised $21.6m in series A funding led by Maersk Growth, Connor Capital SB and Chromo Invest. This brings the total investment in Loadsmart to date to $34.7m following previous seed investment and a convertible notes round. The current...
https://splash247.com/maersk-and-oaktree-invest-in-digital-freight-broker/
Determined to have the last word in the four-month takeover tussle between BW LPG and Dorian LPG, John Hadjipateras, Dorian’s boss, has responded to his counterpart, Andreas Sohmen-Pao. Yesterday, BW pulled the plug on a proposed $1.1bn takeover of Dorian, citing the Hadjipateras-led company’s...
https://splash247.com/hadjipateras-fires-back-as-sohmen-pao-spat-rumbles-on/
Andreas Sohmen-Pao’s BW LPG has pulled out of a proposed $1.1bn merger with rival Dorian LPG after months of back and forth bickering between the pair. Citing “Dorian’s continued refusal to give a meaningful response to BW LPG’s outstanding proposal, engage in constructive two-way discussions, or...
Hornbeck Offshore has had a lawsuit filed against it by Gulf Islands Shipyards over the termination of contracts for the final two vessels in Hornbeck’s fifth OSV newbuild program. Hornbeck had cancelled two MPSVs in the first quarter of this year, claiming performance issues at the yard. In the...
https://splash247.com/hornbeck-and-gulf-island-to-go-to-court-over-cancellation/
Houston-based seismic data specialist SAExploration Holdings has been awarded a new marine project in South Asia by a major national oil company. SAExploration will utilise ocean-bottom nodal recording technology for the contract, which is worth around $100m and expected to commence before the end...
https://splash247.com/saexploration-lands-100m-south-asian-contract/
Norwegian offshore service provider Subsea 7 has announced the award of a major contract by Fieldwood Energy to Subsea Integration Alliance, a global partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea. The award is for the deepwater Katmai field development in the US Gulf of Mexico’s Green Canyon 40. The...
https://splash247.com/subsea-7-and-onesubsea-awarded-gulf-of-mexico-contract/