Offshore News – SEVEN OCEANIC and SEVEN ARCTIC at Malta in 6 days apart – September 2022.

Two offshore vessels from an interesting fleet of over 35 vessels from the Norwegian Offshore Industry Company Subsea 7 called at Grand Harbour, Malta coming from Norway bound to Filyos, Turkey for provisions, stores etc within 6 days apart from each other. First to enter was the 2011 built Deepwater Subsea Offshore Vessel SEVEN OCEANIC […]
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 […]
Cable Layer – BOLD MAVERICK in Malta for Submarine Cable Ops – Nov to Dec 2021
One of the former Maersk owned vessels is the 2001 built multi purpose Subsea Construction Vessel BOLD MAVERICK that is currently engaged in Submarine Cable operations in Malta that started on Sunday 14th November, 2021. So far she called at Grand Harbour, Malta twice for mobilising and uplifting bunkers, first on Saturday 9th October and […]
Cable Layer – SEAWAY AIMERY
One of the Vard Design ships is the 2016 built 95.30 metres long cable layer SEAWAY AIMERY. She has been designed as a dedicated cable lay vessel with significant hold space for cable storage and has also been designed to enable the cable crew to work under cover during laying operations to minimise the impact […]
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 […]
Casualties – Cable Layer RESPONDER sinks after fire – 12.09.2020

The 2000 built 106 metres long cable layer RESPONDER sank on the afternoon of September 12th Seoul time, west of southern tip of Tsushima island in East China sea off South Korea. The ship went down after more than 12 hour long firefighting and rumours are around stating that the sinking was caused due to […]
Cable Laying News – NEXANS awarded cable contract in Greece – 27.05.2020

Nexans has been awarded a contract to design, manufacture, and install a 335 kilometre subsea high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable system for Ariadne Interconnection, a company 100 percent owned by Greece’s state grid operator IPTO. The interconnection will link the electricity network on mainland Greece to Crete. The project will provide security of supply […]
Offshore – Subsea 7 with New Boss – January 2020

UK Subsea engineering and construction services company SUBSEA 7 has made changes to its executive management team, effective from January 1, 2020, including a new CEO. John Evans is now in place as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Jean Cahuzac who retired at the end of 2019 of which he remains on the board of the company as a […]
Enemalta – Interconnector Damage Access – 06.01.2020

Enemalta plc which was established in 1977 is the leading energy services provider in the Maltese Islands, entrusted with the generation and distribution of electricity, and the development of the national electricity distribution network. According to the latest released information Enemalta stated that the survey conducted by the offshore support vessel POLAR KING managed to […]
Palumbo Malta Shipyard – PERIDOT – September 2019

On Wednesday 25th September the 2005 built offshore support ship PERIDOT left Valletta, Malta from Palumbo Malta Shipyard. She was built in Norway as yard number 270 by Ulstein Verft at Ulsteinvik as BOURBON PERIDOT as a supply ship of which later she was converted as ROV support vessel for subsea services and name was […]