Livestock Carrier Queen Hind Refloated
Operations to raise a livestock carrier that capsized in the Black sea off Romania in November came to a close on Tuesday night, said local marine services firm Gruup Servici Petoliere (GSP).The Palau-registered Queen Hind flipped onto its side shortly after leaving Romania's Midia port en route to Saudi Arabia at the end of November 2019. Its entire crew, most of them Syrians, were rescued. Only 180 of the estimated 14,000 sheep on board survived.The Queen Hind is now docked…
RINA Launches Open-sea Crane Standards
RINA has launched new standards for cranes which will be used for transhipment of bulk cargoes at sea and has completely revised and rebased its rules for offshore cranes used in offshore construction, service and demolition. Under the new rules for lifting appliances, RINA has split the requirements for specific crane types (ship, offshore and transhipping) into free-standing sections to make the rules more user-friendly. The new RINA rules for transhipment cranes provide for a specific notation…
Eastern Shipbuilding Delivers HARVEY DEEP-SEA
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. announced the delivery of the M/V HARVEY DEEP-SEA, the fourth of its Tiger Shark Class Offshore Support Vessels constructed for Harvey Gulf International Marine, LLC of New Orleans, LA. The HARVEY DEEP-SEA was delivered July 19, 2013. The vessel was launched at Eastern’s Allanton Facility in mid-December of last year. The HARVEY DEEP-SEA is Eastern’s second Multi-Purpose Light Construction Vessel (LCV) for Harvey Gulf. Eastern Shipbuilding Group has now constructed 11 vessels for Harvey Gulf since 2002.
EPA Tier 2 Engine for EPA Vessel
The R/V Lake Guardian (ex: Marsea XIV) is, at 180 x 40 ft., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's largest research and monitoring vessel, and is operated by EPA's Chicago-based Great Lakes National Program Office.?? The Lake Guardian is in its eighteenth season in the Great Lakes, and has been used, extensively, to support monitoring and research activities ranging from investigations of toxic contaminants to the health of the biological communities of the lakes. The EPA continues to use the R/V Lake Guardian to support a wide range of research activities conducted by Federal…
Bourbon Orders 56 PSVs
In line with its strategy in modern offshore, Bourbon is expanding its fleet with next-generation, innovative and high-productivity vessels to assist its oil and gas clients in the development of their deepwater and continental offshore operations. announced investments of $1.8b, 85 percent of which will be devoted to the Offshore Division. $808 million. These 56 vessels are in addition to the 27 supply vessels already under construction at December 31, 2005. conditions during operations. from the final quarter of 2007 until the first half of 2009. 2005. crane. chartering clients. DP2. Bourbon Aladin, Bourbon Apsara, Bourbon Alexandre). lifting at offshore terminals. 70 people. operations conducted in deepwater using robots (ROV). innovation. at the same shipyards.
