Month: February 2011

The twin platform supply vessels (PSV) ‘Rem Hrist’ and ‘Rem Mist’ have recently been named at a joint ceremony held at the Ulstein shipyard in Ulsteinvik on the west coast of Norway.

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.