Rimorchiatori Riuniti will take over Augustea Holding’s subsidiary Augustea Imprese Marittime e di Salvataggi in a deal worth some €75m ($85m). Following this agreement due to be finalised in the coming days, the […]
RWE Innogy has officially started operations at the 295MW Nordsee Ost wind farm in North Sea Germany. The offshore power plant is located nearly 35km north to Heligoland. It covers […]
A car transporter ship was grounded in the Solent deliberately after it began to list, its owners have said. The Hoegh Osaka was run aground off the Isle of Wight […]
The Lyubov Orlova, an unmanned cruise liner, has been drifting across the north Atlantic for the better part of a year, and salvage hunters say there is a strong chance […]
On December 13th, 2013 the 6000 kW ASD tug Ocean Tundra was commissioned into service for its Owners, Ocean Groupe Inc. (Ocean) of Quebec City, Canada. This icebreaking escort tug […]
Rotterdam-based law firm AKD says a recent decision in the Dutch Court of Appeal substantially extends the jurisdiction of Dutch courts following a ship arrest. In the case of the Hero (HSH […]
Google Inc’s mysterious barges, which prompted fevered speculation about everything from offshore data centers to floating research labs, may serve a more prosaic role as upscale party venues and showrooms. […]
The Maersk Triple E class is a family of large, fuel-efficient container ships, designed as a successor to the Mærsk E-class. In February and June 2011, Maersk awarded Daewoo Shipbuilding […]
This is a new world record for free-fall lifeboats, and Norsafe has hereby taken back its record, which has been in the company’s possession since 1999, with only two brief exceptions. The […]
Japanese and South Korean energy companies have begun shipping oil products through the Arctic’s melting ice—adding credibility to a route that could slash costs while avoiding risks associated with ferrying […]
The knot (pronounced not) is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile (1.852 km) per hour, approximately 1.151 mph. There is no standard abbreviation but kn is commonly used; kt […]
The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) granted a lease for an offshore wind farm off the coast of Delaware to a unit of U.S. power company NRG Energy, which decided in […]
