General News

Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Fernvale has secured a contract worth about $809 million from Urca Drilling, a subsidiary of Sete Brasil, for the design and construction of a semisubmersible drilling rig…

UK-based digital documentation company Regs4ships says that its digital maritime regulations service has been officially recognised as an electronic equivalent to the Antigua & Barbuda Carriage of Nautical Publications requirements.

Classification society Bureau Veritas reports that it has completed the first certification audit of any shipping company to the new standard ISO 50001- 2011 - Energy Management Systems.

Digital ship documentation company Regs4ships has announced that its senior surveyor Mark Robinson and surveyor Robert Aldous have been appointed as government ship surveyors for Transport Malta (Maritime).

Singapore group Sembcorp Marine reports that its subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has broken ground at its Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz facility, the Group’s first overseas integrated new yard in Espirito Santo, Brazil.