Dredging – GRANE R dredging inner part of Grand Harbour – August 2022
After nearly a month anchored at Bunkering Area 3, the 2010 built DP 2 multi purpose offshore vessel GRANE R entered Grand Harbour on Friday 12th August originally coming from Viana do Castelo at Portugal of which she passed breakwaters at 0839hrs. Transport Malta issued Local Notice to Mariners no 136 regarding the dredging works […]
Offshore News – Maersk Supply Service (MSS) sells three laid-up vessels for scrap – May 2022
During May 2022 Maersk Supply Service (MSS) has taken the decision to recycle three of her older vessels that have been laid up in Fredericia, Denmark. These were MAERSK ATTENDER, MAERSK HELPER and MAERSK WINNER with all of them towed to Fornæs yard in Grenaa for recycling. Commenting on the sale, Mark Handin, Maersk Supply Service […]
Accident – Crane Vessel SAIPEM 7000 lifting accident – 14.04.2022
On Thursday 14th April, 2022 the world’s third largest semi submersible crane vessel SAIPEM 7000 heavily listed after suffering a lifting accident on a Norwegian Fjord near Stavanger, Norway. The Norwegian Rescue Services reported that during the 5 yo load test of the cranes, the main wire snapped with the cause of dropping 2 barges […]
Marine Construction – Belgian Herbosch-Kiere to lay cables for Bahrain – February 2022.
In 2021, the Flemish marine construction company Herbosch-Kiere, signed a contract for the installation of 3 x 66 kV submarine cables in shallow waters between Bahrain’s mainland and Hawar Island. The multi-purpose, self-propelled vessel ATLANTIS will carry out the works for Al-Gihaz Contracting, a Saudi Arabian construction company. The works start in February 2022 and […]
Offshore – Egyptian supply vessel MARIDIVE 703
One of the first anchor handling tug/supply (AHTS) responder to EVER GIVEN aground accident in the Suez Canal on Tuesday 23rd March, 2021 was the 150 tons bollard pull AHTS MARIDIVE 703. She was built in China by Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard at Zhenjiang in 2011 and homeported in Belize City (BLZ Flag). She’s 71 metres […]
Offshore – Offshore Construction Vessel CONNECTOR at Malta again – 27 – 28.12.2020
On Sunday 27th December, 2020 the 156.9m long Offshore Construction Vessel (OCV) CONNECTOR entered Grand Harbour, Malta at 0727 hrs coming from Moss, Norway berthing at Pinto 1/2 wharves. She was last here in Malta berthed at Pinto 4 and 5 wharves part of Valletta Cruise Port on Wednesday 14th October for an 8 hour […]
Coast Guard – Hellenic Coast Guard receive New Ambulance Boat LS 1064 – 13.08.2020
On Thursday 13th August, 2020 the Hellenic Coastguard took delivery of the first Viking Norsafe Munin S1200 ambulance boat named LS 1064 specially designed to be fitted with medical equipment to support the Hellenic National Centre for Emergency Care (EKAB) and the Hellenic Coastguard. The Hellenic Coast Guard is the national coast guard of Greece. […]
Offshore – Oil Rig MAERSK DISCOVERER at Malta for few hours – 27.07.2020
The 2009 built dynamically positioned semi submersible drilling rig (ssdr) MAERSK DISCOVERER was offshore Malta for few hours on Monday 27th July,2020. She was built in Singapore by KEPPEL FELS and is a Self-Propelled A1 Column Stabilized Drilling Unit. She was assisted by the 2013 built offshore support vessel EDT JANE which entered MMH Facilities […]
Cable Layer – OCEAN LINK
OCEAN LINK is one of the cable layer vessels around the Mediterranean Sea, currently off Haifa, Israel. She was built as CLAYMORE, a car and passenger ferry built in 1978 at Robb Caledon at Leith, Scotland as Yard no 522 for Caledonian MacBrayne. For ten years, she operated between Oban and the Outer Isles. Between October 2002 and March 2009, she […]
Piracy – 7 Crew kidnapped from PACIFIC WARDEN – 20.11.2019
Singapore based offshore owner Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) has confirmed reports that the anchor handling tug supply vessel PACIFIC WARDEN was attacked by pirates offshore Equatorial Guinea. The vessel was supporting offshore field operations in Equatorial Guinea with 15 crew onboard, when she was attacked around 0500 hrs LT on Wednesday 20th November, 2019. 7 crew members were […]
