ASX-listed Hartshead Resources has kicked off the pre-qualification process for the platform and jacket contract for the Anning and Somerville gas fields in the UK Southern North Sea. The company said it has a “long list” of eight UK and EU-based contractors for engineering, procurement,...
https://splash247.com/hartshead-lining-up-platform-and-jacket-contractors-for-uk-gas-project/
A.P. Moller Capital has established a new office in Singapore and is ramping up its investment programme in the South and Southeast Asia region, aiming to commit over $750m in capital commitments into infrastructure platforms in the region. A.P. Moller Capital, an asset manager and part of the A.P....
https://splash247.com/a-p-moller-capital-sets-up-in-singapore/
Singapore-based Yinson Green Technologies (YGT), part of Malaysia’s Yinson Group, has made a strategic investment in Zeabuz, a Norwegian startup specialising in autonomous shipping services. YGT said the investment will allow it to work with Zeabuz in the development of autonomous solutions for its...
https://splash247.com/yinson-invests-in-norwegian-autonomous-shipping-startup/
Russia’s Northern Sea Route Will Have to Wait, states a HIR Harvard International Review.
Massive disruptions to global shippingAlthough often overlooked by policymakers and world leaders, maritime trade was unexpectedly spotlighted in the early Spring of 2021 following the ship Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal. The six-day blockage resulted in massive disruptions to global shipping. While most of the world’s attention was transfixed on the seemingly hapless...
https://mfame.guru/for-now-russias-northern-sea-route-must-wait/
Time to jointly press stop button on Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to Global Times editorial.
Russia-Ukraine borderOn February 24, 2022, when the first gunshot at the Russia-Ukraine border shattered tranquility, most people did not anticipate that it would evolve into the largest military conflict on the European continent since World War II. A year later, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has profoundly changed the international geopolitics, and severely weakened...
https://mfame.guru/time-to-end-russia-ukraine-conflict-together/
3.40 am Kyiv time a year ago. War started by air, land, and sea. Immediately global trade suffered dislocations that have swollen over the ensuing 12 months with no end in sight to the combat between Ukraine and Russia. Seafarers have died in the cross-fire around the Black Sea, many more have been...
https://splash247.com/how-shipping-navigated-its-way-through-12-months-of-war-in-ukraine/
Luxembourg-headquartered CLdN is bringing back its roro into service following a successful retrofit of two tilting rotor sails. The 2018-built vessel is the first in the CLdN fleet to be fitted with the system and will return to service from Zeebrugge, Belgium, as from February 27. Delphine, which...
https://splash247.com/largest-wind-assisted-shortsea-roro-returns-to-service/
A fire-struck, evacuated boxship has been boarded, brought under control and towed into the port of Riga where it is now moored alongside a terminal. The Dutch-registered 1,349 teu suffered a blaze earlier in the week while transiting the Baltic Sea. Images of the ship show the funnel has been...
Italy’s Saipem and Oslo-listed offshore wind service specialists Seaway 7 have teamed up to jointly identify, bid on, and execute fixed offshore wind projects. The two companies stated that they will pursue projects in which the combined use of their assets, technologies, products, and competencies...
https://splash247.com/saipem-and-seaway-7-join-forces-on-fixed-offshore-wind/
Norway-based Deep Value Driller has landed a bareboat charter deal with Italy’s Saipem for the seventh-generation drillship . The 2014-built rig, formerly known as Bolette Dolphin, will be fixed to Saipem for around three years, with options to extend the charter by up to one year. Deep Value...
https://splash247.com/deep-value-driller-charters-out-drillship-to-saipem/