Shanghai: China’s first domestically produced drillship, Reignwood Opus Tiger 1, was christened in Shanghai on November 8. It is the first such vessel where all intellectual property rights are exclusively owned by China. The vessel was constructed by Shanghai ... continue reading
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Shanghai: Haikou Maritime Court announced that it will put two ships of the financially troubled Hainan Linhai Shipping up for auction on December 10 at the request of Haikou Haikong Loan Company. The two multi-purpose vessels, Lin Hai 588 and ... continue reading
in General 3120Cargo ro-ro Grande Sierra Leone coming from West Africa, on Oct 26 had to wait enter permit outside Vlissingen, Netherlands, for several hours, moving around or drifting, until the authorities found the health certificate, which was timely sent to them ... continue reading
in General 3783General cargo vessel Seashell cancelled Kherson Port call, Ukraine, fearing probable arrest, prosecution and maybe even confiscation, on grounds of violating the EU and Ukrainian ban on ports of the annexed Crimea. Seashell was approaching Kherson on Oct 23, but ... continue reading
in General 4295Turkish LPG tanker Blue Way once again violated Ukrainian and EU sanctions against Crimean shipping by calling Crimea, on Oct 23 vessel was docked in Kerch. Blue Way is one of most notorious traders violating the ban, she was spotted ... continue reading
in General 4027The new-built pipelaying vessel SAPURA TOPAZIO is currently on its way to Rio de Janeiro. The 550t pipelaying vessel built by IHC Merwede will be operated in the Brazilian waters to develop deep-sea oilfields of up to 2,500 meters ... continue reading
in General 6578The Arctic Sunrise safely returned to the port of Amsterdam on Saturday August the 9th, after being detained in Murmansk, Russia, for nearly 12 months. However, Greenpeace informed that severe damage was caused to the ship, claiming for example that ... continue reading
in General 4168U.S.-flagged product tanker Overseas Mykonos, laden with 60,000 metric tons of government-supplied jet fuel for Israel's military has arrived at the port of Ashkelon, amid calls to Secretary of State John Kerry from Amnesty International to ... continue reading
in General tagged with Tanker Tracker 4022On Tuesday the President of Egypt - Abdel Fatah al-Sisi unveiled that Egypt plans to construct a new Suez Canal. A 45-mile waterway will be added alongside the current canal. The new lane will allow more ships to use the canal ... continue reading
in General 8227Albros Shipping Co., Istanbul, would like to inform, that following vessels are still listed in Equasis database as belonging to Albros: -MV Volgo-balt 214 -MV Amur 2501 -MV Amur 2504 -MV Alexey Tarasov -tug boat “Tarpan” Vessels were sold some ... continue reading
in General 4922At this weekend dozens of specialists were working on installation of the large segments transported from Wilhelmshaven for building of a new bascule bridge in Hamburg. The bridge weighing about 250 tons and its folding parts of 650 tons have ... continue reading
in General 3133In response to the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia, the European Union has published Regulation 692/2014 of 23 June 2014, introducing trade sanctions in respect of goods originating in Crimea or Sevastopol and on the provision, directly ... continue reading
in General 2649Greece again is the Number One Shipping Nation on the water. This year the Greek shipping companies have reconquered this title. However, the acknowledgement is in anyway a benefit for the Greek mariners - two of three Greek seafarers are usually ... continue reading
in General 2369On Monday the 7th of July a Nicaragua committee approved a route for the construction of a channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The estimated construction costs amount to about $40 billion. This project would be a potential competitor ... continue reading
in General 2750According to Ukrainian media, government of the Ukraine may declare official closing of the Crimean ports on Wednesday July 9. Assumingly Ukrainian authorities will launch a Sea Blockade campaign, monitoring Crimean ship calls, and hunting down violators. Vessels of the ... continue reading
in General 485832 million cigarettes and 4,500 kg of pipe tobacco worth approximately €14 million were seized by Customs officers yesterday at Drogheda Port, Ireland. The seizure is considered to be the largest detention of cigarettes in Europe this year. The ... continue reading
in General 3127Work at one of the world’s largest wind farm projects Gemini can get started. Recently the Gemini wind farm consortium has signed all construction, operation and funding contracts and placed an order for the wind turbines with Siemens. The ... continue reading
in General 3121French authorities tasked Maersk to pinpoint the location of nearly 500 containers, which were blown overboard the SVENDBORG MAERSK during a storm in February this year in the Bay of Biscay. The missing containers could be a hindrance for fishermen ... continue reading
in General 4822Due to the Ukrainian crisis Russian sailing ships do not receive a permission to come into German ports. The Russian frigate BOIKY did not get a permit from the German authorities to enter the port of Kiel and thus cannot ... continue reading
in General 4272The San Francisco Bar Pilots and US Coast Guard together with the global container shipping company CMA CGM tested the towing capability of ultra-large container ships in the San Francisco Bay on Wednesday, May the 21st. The ship that participated ... continue reading
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