Fincantieri's Monfalcone shipyard handed over Costa Venezia - built specially for Chinese guests - to Costa Cruises, the Italian brand of Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company.The handover took place yesterday in the presence…
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Zvezda Shipbuilding Gets USD3.09bln
Over 202 billion rubles ($3.09 billion) will be allocated for the construction of the Zvezda shipbuilding complex in Russia's Far Eastern Primorsky Region, of which 66 billion rubles have already been given.According to Sputnik, the Zvezda shipyard…
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LNG-Operated Survey Vessel Atair Floated Out
German Naval Yards Kiel, has floated out 'Atair', the world's first LNG fueled research vessel, after a building period of 16 months.The 75 m vessel is being built for Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) by the general contractor…
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Arctic May Turn Ice-Free by 2040
The Arctic Ocean could experience an ice-free summer at some time in the next 20 years, says a new study.According to a new study in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters, the thawing is due to a combination of a natural warming phase…
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Spliethoff Gets Green Loan From ING, EIB
Dutch banking group ING and the European Investment Bank said they will provide a EUR 110 million ($123 million) loan to Dutch ship management firm Spliethoff’s Bevrachtingskantoor B.V. for retrofitting vessels with exhaust gas cleaning systems.Accordi...
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Yinson, First E&P in USD902mln FPSO Deal
Malaysia’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO)-operator Yinson and Nigerian oil company First Exploration & Petroleum Development Company Ltd (First E&P) have executed a contract for an FPSO to be deployed offshore Nigeria.The…
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MDL Bags West Africa SURF Project
UK-based Maritime Developments Ltd (MDL), which designs, manufactures, and delivers machines to energy sector, said that it has secured a flexible installation project offshore Ghana.The work scope covers an installation of a flowline using MDL Third-...
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