Casualties – Suez Canal tugboat FAHD sank after collision – 05.08.2023
Last Saturday 5th August the 1976 built tugboat FAHD, sank after colliding with a 230 metre LPG carrier in the Suez Canal. One of the tug’s crewmembers was trapped in a cabin within the vessel and killed with the other six were rescued, according to the Suez Canal Authority. The tug collided with the LPG […]
Casualties – 3 dead and 1 injured in engine room explosion at Crotone, Italy – 31.08.2022
Around 1750 hrs of Wednesday 31st August, 2022 an engine room explosion aboard the 1983 built 24.5 metres workboat ASSO whilst berthed at Crotone Port, Italy with 3 crew members as fatalities ( 2 were thrown on the quay while the third body was found afloat in the sea – 2 Indians and an Egyptian, […]
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 […]
Casualties – EVER GIVEN salvage operation update – 29.03.2021
After 6 days blocking the Suez Canal, the grounded mother container ship EVER GIVEN was partially freed around 0540 hrs ( 0340 UTC) . According to the Suez Canal Authority , the container ship is now fully afloat. Efforts will now get under way to restart shipping navigation, with more than 450 vessels waiting near […]
Egyptian Ro/Ro vessel NUWAYBA – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
On Friday 23rd July,2010 the 1989 built EGY flag and state owned ro/ro vessel NUWAYBA was photographed from the air by MALTA SHIP PHOTOS offshore Malta while receiving bunkers by BAWA-I. She was built in Egypt in 1989 by the Alexandria Shipyard with Germanischer Lloyd Class Society. Her IMO was 8611453. Photos by Capt. Lawrence Dalli. […]
Offshore News – SAIPEM wins Zohr Field Job – December 2018
Italian offshore contractor SAIPEM and Petrobel have negotiated an offshore contract addendum worth more than $1.2 billion. Saipem said on Thursday that the contract is for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) activities in relation to the “Ramp Up to Plateau” phase of the “supergiant” Zohr field development project situated in the Mediterranean Sea off […]
