General News

Queiroz Galvao Oleo e Gas (QGOG), the largest privately-held provider of drilling and production services in Brazil, recently named its newly-built, ultra-deepwater DP semisubmersible rig ‘Alpha Star’.

A new report from DNV, ‘Greener shipping in North America’, proposes that LNG is the most efficient and economical way to meet forthcoming air emissions requirements in the US and Canada.

Maritime satellite communications provider Stratos Global has just launched its FBBPlus managed global broadband service, based on the FleetBroadband and VSAT platforms.

17 February saw the naming of two more 13,100 TEU container vessels for Rickmers Group. ‘Leo Rickmers’ and ‘Scorpio Rickmers’ will be chartered to Maersk Line as ‘Maersk Edmonton’ and ‘Maersk Elba’.

UK company SE Hydraulics has partnered with Parker Hannifin to develop a passive damping system for use on the rescue craft davits of BP’s regional support vessels (RSVs).

Maersk Line has announced that it has signed a contract with Daewoo in Korea to build 10 container ships of 18,000 TEU capacity to a new environmentally-friendly design.

The launch of the second ro-pax ferry, ‘Spirit of France’, which STX Rauma is building for P&O Ferries, took place on 17 February 2011. She is a sister ship to ‘Spirit of…

STX Finland Oy and Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of the Republic of Namibia recently signed a contract for the construction of a fisheries research vessel at a cost of approximately…