Norway’s Kleven awarded MacGregor a contract for six comprehensive deck handling equipment packages. Image from Cargotec. The contract will see MacGregor deliver Triplex 42 Multi-deck handlers…
Smit Lamnalco is acquiring Pacific Basin's (PB) entire shareholding in PB Towage Australia (PBTA). The deal includes all of PB’s harbor towage operations and 16 harbor tugs, one harbor tug and one barge. The deal is expected to complete…
Watch as Teekay Corp.’s largest project, the FPSO Petrojarl Knarr, sails away from South Korea to Norway. It took three Fairmount Marine tugs 61 days to tow the FPSO off Norway where it is deployed in the Knarr oil and gas field…
Three tugs of Fairmount Marine have towed the new floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Petrojarl Knarr from South Korea to Norway in just 61 days. Petrojarl Knarr, one of world’s largest FPSOs for harsh environments, was delivered to the port of Haugesund…
P&O Maritime, a subsidiary of Dubai-based global marine terminal operator DP World, has acquired a majority stake in Remolcadores de Puerto y Altura S.A. (Repasa), a Spanish operator of offshore support vessels. P&O and Repasa will form a new joint-venture company under the P&O Maritime brand…
This video shows Lerwick Harbour receiving the 10,000-tonne subsea oil storage tank for Premier’s Solan oil field development located 90km west of Shetland. The tank was delivered to the port on 26 July from the construction…
Crowley Maritime Corp. will christen the new ocean-class tug, the Ocean Sky, in Houston tomorrow. The 156-ft long Ocean Sky is the fourth of Crowley's new ocean-class tugs to leave the Bollinger shipyard, following its sister ship, the Ocean Sun…
Stanford Marine announced that its news anchor handling tug, the Stanford Mustang, has been delivered. The Stanford Mustang, a 50m DP2 tug, was specially designed to handle a specific charter in Qatar and was built at Fujian Mawei shipyard in Fuzhou…
Fairmount Marine announced that the Fairmount Summit tug has towed jackup rig West Ariel safely from Vung Tau, Vietnam, to Singapore. The towage over a distance of 1305mi. was performed in seven days with an average speed of 4 knots. The West Ariel…
Singapore-based ASL Marine Holdings has won new shipbuilding contracts worth about S$91 million for the construction of three infield support vessels (of ART 100-42 class Rotor Tugs design) and one seismic support vessel (SSV). The…
Fairmount Marine's tug Fairmount Expedition has towed jackup rig Naga 3 from the PV Marine Shipyard in Vung Tau, Vietnam, to the RD-19X Block 15-2 oilfield offshore Vietnam. Last month the tug towed the rig from Singapore to the shipyard…
Singapore-based shipowner and operator, Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Ltd. (SPO) celebrated the launch of its new D-Class anchor-handling tug supply vessel, Pacific Dragon, on 18 Apr 2014. This is the eighth and final D-Class vessel…
Shipowner and operator, Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (SPO) has launched its new D-Class vessel, Pacific Dragon (pictured). The launch and naming ceremony was held at ST Marine shipyard and marked the completion of the eight-vessel D-Class series of 240T bollard pull…
Fairmount Marine announced on 14 April 2014 that its tug Fairmount Sherpa has safely towed the semisubmersible drilling rig Sevan Louisiana from Singapore to Curaçao. During the 11,500mi. voyage via the Cape of Good Hope, stops were made in Port Louis (Mauritius)…
On the heels of the recent successful delivery of offshore production facility Jack/St. Malo, Crowley Maritime has again supported the domestic petroleum industry by providing ocean towing services for the Tubular Bells topside in the Gulf of Mexico for Saipem…
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