Malta Shipyards – Drillship GSF EXPLORER Operations – May 2005.

One of the most interesting drillship operations at Grand Harbour, is no doubt the one of the American GSF EXPLORER that happened during June 2005. On Saturday 7th May afternoon the 189 metres long (loa) drillship GSF EXPLORER coming from the Gulf of Mexico and homeported at Houston, Texas (USA Flag) was spotted entering Grand […]
Pipe Layer – SOLITAIRE

One of the ship’s owned by the Allseas Group, a Dutch pipelaying and marine construction firm is the 1972 built 300 metres long SOLITAIRE. She was built in Japan by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at their shipyard in Hiroshima as yn 223 launched on 17th December 1971 and completed in 1972 as the bulk carrier TRENTWOOD until May […]
CMA CGM News – Overweight Surcharge (OWS) from the Mediterranean to the US Gulf & Mexico East Coast from 20.05.2021

In a continued effort to provide its customers with reliable and efficient services, CMA CGM informs of the following Overweight Surcharge: Effective May 20th, 2021 (date of loading in the origin ports): From Mediterranean ports excluding Bilbao, Vigo, Gijon, Alexandria, Damietta To the US Gulf & Mexico East Coast (Altamira, Veracruz) Cargo: 20′ Dry containers […]
Offshore – Vantage Drilling to manage Oil Exploration Units for Seadrill Partners – 22.03.2021
Vantage Drilling International has entered into an agreement with Seadrill Partners which will see Vantage will provide management , operating and marketing services to Seadrill Partners. The agreement relates to drill ships WEST CAPELLA and WEST POLARIS and the semi-submersible drilling rigs (ssdr) WEST LEO and WEST SIRIUS. Seadrill Partners is currently being reorganised after filing […]
Tanker News – Venezuela Sanctions – NS CONCEPT – Feb 2019

The 2005 South Korean built crude oil tanker NS CONCEPT departed Venezuela late January with half a million barrels of oil for Houston, USA arriving on the 3rd February and few days after sanctions on Venezuela’s state owned oil firm PDVSA were placed. After spending 6 days in Houston, the tanker has been unable to […]