Passer By – Towage of Jack Up Oil Rig – 12.07.2024
On Friday 12th July, 2024 the towage of the 74 metre long (loa) jack up oil rig SHELF DRILLING RESOURCEFUL was spotted passing around 32 nautical miles offshore Malta. The 2008 built Jack Up Oil Rig SHELF DRILLING RESOURCEFUL is of a LeTourneau Super 116-C design. She was refitted in 2017 and is capable of […]
Heavy Lift – Fenix Offshore Gas Project Rig Topside carried by Biglift CY INTEROCEAN II – January 2024
Last December, 2023 the French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company that was founded in 1924 – TotalEnergies SE has started installation of the production platform for the Fenix offshore gas development operated by Total Austral. The arrival of the project’s 4,800-ton jacket in Tierra del Fuego inaugurates the second phase of project development, offshore […]
Towage – BREB XIAN brought to Malta – 19.04.2023
On Wednesday 19th April, 2023 the 1999 built general cargo ship BREB XIAN was towed to Malta for gearbox repairs at Palumbo Malta Shipyards by the 1992 built tug PAUL. BREB XIAN was coming […]
Casualties – Turkish Cargo Ship GOKBEL sinks – 28.12.2014
On the morning of Sunday 28th December, 2014 around 0830 hrs the 2011 built Turkish general cargo ship GOKBEL with 11 crew collided with the 1991 built general cargo ship LADY AZIZA and sank in poor visibility just a mile from the Italian Adriatic port of Ravenna. Guardia Costiera (Italian Coast Guard) Capitano Di Vascello […]
Tugboat – 2006 built CARLO MAGNO
One of the Italian powerful anchor handling tug (aht) around is the 2006 built CARLO MAGNO. She was built in Italy by Cantieri Navale Rosetti Marino Spa at Ravenna, launched on 7th September 2005 and completed on 27th February, 2006 built to a Rolls-Royce Marine UT514L design and handed over in March 2006. She’s 55.4 […]
Casualties – Tugboat MACISTONE lost deck barge AMT MARINER in a storm – 06.02.2020
On Wednesday 5th February, 2020 the Italian tugboat MACISTONE lost her tow – the deck cargo barge AMT MARINER and finished aground 5 nautical miles South of Bari near San Giorgio beach. MACISTONE left Augusta, Sicily on Thursday 30th January (Above images are on mentioned day) towing the 91 metre long deck cargo barge AMT […]
MMH MALTA – Week 19 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 19 – Sunday 6th […]
OFFSHORE – A.H.VARAZZE at Malta – 21.02.2018. The 2014 built ITA flag offshore tug supply ship A.H. VARAZZE entered Valletta (Grand Harbour), Malta for Palumbo Malta Shipyard on Wednesday 21st February 2018. This is her second call this year so far.She was built by Rosetti Marino at Ravenna, Italy as ASSO TRENTADUE but was renamed and acquired by […]
