Offshore News – 3 SAIPEM Vessels in Central Mediterranean Sea – 11.05.2020
SAIPEM S.p.A. (Società Anonima Italiana Perforazioni E Montaggi) is an Italian multinational oilfield services company and one of the largest in the world. Until 2016 it was a subsidiary of Italian oil and gas supermajor Eni, which still retains approximately 30% of Saipem’s shares. Within three weeks 3 vessels were seen in Central Mediterranean Sea – On Tuesday […]
Offshore – Seafarer found dead aboard SAIPEM FDS at Rotterdam – 10.04.2020
A seafarer from the pipelay vessel SAIPEM FDS was found dead in Port of Rotterdam. According to the police, his death occured from natural causes and no symptoms attributable to Covid-19 and died unexpectedly during the night. The vessel homeported at Nassau in Bahamas with 77 crew members on board is currently berthed at Waalhaven […]
LNG News – K Line Gas Carrier ARCTIC DISCOVERER at Malta – 20.07.2019
On Saturday 20th July, 2019 the 289 m long Japanese gas carrier ARCTIC DISCOVERER entered Marsaxlokk Harbour for another shipment bound to the Floating Storage Unit (FSU) ARMADA LNG MEDITERRANA. She was built in 2006 by Mitsui Ichihara Engineering & Shipbuilding at Ichihara, Japan and homeported at Nassau in Bahamas. She entered first thing in […]
Breaking Up – 2003 built Drilling Rig EIRIK RAUDE – June 2019
During middle June 2019 the 2003 Chinese built Bingo 9000 type semi submersible drilling rig EIRIK RAUDE was towed from Astakos, Greece bound to Aliaga, Turkey for breakers. In fact ALP CENTRE arrived at Astakos on Tuesday 18th June. EIRIK RAUDE was built by Dalian New Shipbuilding Heavy Industry at Dalian in China as a […]
Palumbo Malta Shipyard – Cruise Liner SKYSEA GOLDEN ERA – 12.11.2018
On Monday 12th November 2018 at 0816 hrs the 1995 built cruise ship SKYSEA GOLDEN ERA entered Valletta with her last port reported was from Salalah, Oman after she left Colombo, Sri Lanka on 28th October, 2018 bound to Palumbo Malta Shipyard berthing at Parlatorio Wharf. SKYSEA GOLDEN ERA was the lead ship of the Century class of […]
Passer By – OCEANIC INSTALLER – 04.11.2018
The 1984 Norwegian built Offshore Diving Support Vessel OCEANIC INSTALLER was spotted at 0830 hrs (0730 UTC) passing by 27.5 nautical miles off Valletta, Malta on Sunday 4th November, 2018 while on passage from Jebel Ali, UAE ( leaving 15.10.2018 ) to Arzew at Algeria. Below images are of her back to January 1999 when she […]
Valletta Cruise Port – Week 42 of 2018
Valletta Cruise Port plc (formerly VISET Malta plc) is a limited liability company which took over the cruise and ferry terminal operations following an international tender issued by the Government of Malta in 1996. Valletta Cruise Port was awarded the project and the formal agreement was signed on the 23rd of November 2001. PORTE DES […]
Valletta Cruise Port – Week 35 of 2018
Valletta Cruise Port plc (formerly VISET Malta plc) is a limited liability company which took over the cruise and ferry terminal operations following an international tender issued by the Government of Malta in 1996. Valletta Cruise Port was awarded the project and the formal agreement was signed on the 23rd of November 2001. Image of […]
MMH MALTA – Week 29 of 2018
Mediterranean Maritime Hub (MMH) is located within the inner of Valletta (Grand Harbour), and ideally positioned to serve the marine oil and gas servicing industries by providing drilling, sub-sea and marine operations, engineering, maintenance and storage and other services. The following are movements within Week 29 Monday 16th July, 2018. At 0858 hrs the 2003 built Platform […]
PASSER BY – MPOV SKANDI CARLA – 22.02.2018. The 2001 built BHS flag multi purpose offshore vessel SKANDI CARLA was spotted at 2230 hrs (2130 UTC) passing by 30 nautical miles North off Valletta, Malta bound to Istanbul, Turkey from Gibraltar on Thursday 22nd February 2018. She was built in Norway by VARD Aukra at Aukra with 84 […]
