Norway’s North Sea Shipping has recently purchased and taken delivery of the former vessel Horizon Enabler from Horizon Maritime. The multipurpose ROV and light construction vessel has been renamed North Sea Enabler and will join the North Sea Shipping fleet that counts now four specialised...
https://splash247.com/north-sea-shipping-adds-to-offshore-fleet/
Norway’s Vestland Offshore has unveiled two long-term charter extensions with UK supermajor BP. The 2011-built platform supply vessels Vestland Artemis and Solvik Supplier have been fixed for five and four years respectively. Both ships have been working in the North Sea for several years. Brokers...
https://splash247.com/vestland-reveals-psv-extensions-with-bp/
Norwegian car carrier operator Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed a 20-year lease agreement with the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) for Brunswick Port, with options of up to 30 years. Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s will expand and enhance Brunswick Port’s existing Colonel’s Island Terminal and auto vehicle...
https://splash247.com/wallenius-wilhelmsen-pens-20-year-lease-for-brunswick-port/
Liner giant Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has moved to take over Gram Car Carriers (GCC) in a potential deal that values the Oslo-listed tonnage provider at about NOK7.6bn ($700m). The offer of NOK263.69 per share in cash has been made via MSC subsidiary Shipping Agencies Services (SAS) and...
https://splash247.com/msc-launches-700m-takeover-bid-for-gram-car-carriers/
Norway’s Kongsberg, via its Kongsberg Discovery technology division, has confirmed that the first production example of its long-range Hugin Endurance autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has completed factory acceptance testing. Sea trials for the first production unit began in September 2023. In...
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) of Belfast, Northern Ireland, has awarded Spanish shipbuilder Armon a contract for the construction of a new vessel to be used for fishery and oceanographic research. The vessel will be designed by Skipsteknisk to meet the strict underwater noise...
John Fredriksen’s SFL Corporation has bought two LNG dual-fuel 33,000 dwt chemical tankers for approximately $114 and arranged long-term charters. The vessels are built in 2022 and 2023 and fitted with stainless steel cargo tanks. SFL also arranged long-term employment for the vessels with...
https://splash247.com/sfl-buys-dual-fuel-chemical-tanker-pair-fixes-them-out-to-stolt-tankers/
Oslo-listed OSV pure play Golden Energy Offshore Services (GEOS) is getting a new majority shareholder after Oaktree Capital Management offloaded its stake for $39.5m. Fleetscape, a fund managed by Oaktree and closely associated with GEOS chairman Fredrik Ulstein and board member Guillaume Bayol,...
https://splash247.com/geos-gets-new-majority-shareholder-as-oaktree-sells-out/
Lady Gaga famously sang that she was “on the edge of glory”. This week, we look at four companies on the edge of….well, something. Let’s check in on two construction companies, a subsea mining venture, and our favourite wind turbine installer. McDermott on the edge Finally, a judge in the UK has...
Norwegian transportation startup Hydrolift Smart-City Ferries, which operates under the name Hyke, has launched a new passenger shuttle service in the city of Fredrikstad in Østfold county in eastern Norway. The ferry connecting the communities of Bekkhus and Vaterland, the aptly named Shuttle...