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US-based offshore surveyor TDI-Brooks has been awarded geotechnical work for Woodside Energy’s Calypso development off Trinidad and Tobago. The contract will see the deployment of TDI-Brooks’ most recent addition to its survey fleet the 2000-built Nautilus – the former offshore support vessel Nautical Geo. TDI-Brooks operates six research vessels and this award will be the …
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https://splash247.com/tdi-brooks-wins-woodside-survey-work-off-trinidad/Houston-based Oceaneering has secured a contract to design the maintenance strategy for a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel set to be installed offshore Brazil. The project, which will be managed by Oceaneering in Rio de Janeiro, aims to optimise the FPSO’s performance, enhance reliability, and ensure smooth operations, Oceaneering said without disclosing further …
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https://splash247.com/oceaneering-clinches-fpso-maintenance-strategy-contract-in-brazil/The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) has appointed BP’s senior vice president for shipping Lambros Klaoudatos as its new chair. Klaoudatos takes over the position from Nick Potter, who has been involved with OCIMF at board level since 2014 and has been the organisation’s chair since 2022. Klaoudatos has almost 30 years of industry …
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https://splash247.com/bp-executive-appointed-ocimf-chair/One ship type that has yet to embrace wind power could soon see sails installed. Japanese shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has just received an approval in principle from ClassNK for the design of a membrane LNG carrier featuring two of MOL’s Wind Challenger sails. Detailed design work is currently underway for a new …
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https://splash247.com/mol-showcases-landmark-wind-assisted-gas-carrier/Bahamas-headquartered Veer has selected Germany’s Fosen Shipyard to build its first two wind-powered and hydrogen-assisted container vessels with an aim to launch clean container services from 2027. “We are delighted and excited that Veer has chosen Fosen to build the first zero-emissions container carrier in Germany,” said Carsten Stellamanns, CEO of Fosen Shipyard. “Together with …
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https://splash247.com/veer-selects-fosen-shipyard-to-build-revolutionary-boxships/A new shipping venture from the Prokopiou clan in Greece has emerged with brokers reporting a first LR1 purchase. Marielena Procopiou, the daughter of Greek tycoon George Prokopiou, is behind a new shipowning outfit named Akrotiri Tankers. The company quietly made its first purchase in May, adding the 2008-built, 77,000 dwt Hafnia Thames from Hafnia. The ship …
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https://splash247.com/new-prokopiou-tanker-venture-emerges/Crowley and SEACOR Holdings have officially launched Fairwater Holdings, combining the pair’s American petroleum and chemical tanker fleets. Fairwater is active in all major Jones Act coastwise tank vessel trades. The fleet consists of 31 owned vessels, including medium-range product tankers, Aframaxes and articulated tug-barges (ATBs). Fairwater also provides shipmanagement services for 20 third-party owned …
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https://splash247.com/new-jones-act-shipping-firm-launches/The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has launched a new report identifying global hydrogen demand to 2050, with South Korea, Japan and Europe being the first markets for hydrogen. The report highlights that to meet just 30m tonnes of annual global green hydrogen demand, the world would require up to 411 new hydrogen vessels – …
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https://splash247.com/ics-report-predicts-more-than-400-hydrogen-carriers-will-be-needed-by-2050/The 2020s have marked a period of unprecedented disruption for liner shipping, which in turn has created the conditions for the greatest earnings the sector has ever recorded. Quantifying how this disruption – whether it be covid, the drought in Panama, or the Red Sea shipping crisis – equates to freight rates increasing has hitherto …
The BIMCO Dry Bulk Shipping Market Overview & Outlook July 2024 by Niels Rasmussen, BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst, anticipates that the supply/demand balance will strengthen in 2024 but weaken in 2025.Supply is estimated to grow by 3-4% in 2024 and 1.5-2.5% in 2025…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/bimco-strong-bulk-market-may-cool-nears-515632
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