Valletta Cruise Port – MSC GRANDIOSA the first cruise liner with passengers at Malta – 21.08.2020
On Friday 21st August the 2019 built 332 metre long cruise liner MSC GRANDIOSA entered Grand Harbour, Malta at 0520 hrs coming from Palermo, Sicily marking her the first cruise liner berthing at Valletta Cruise Port with passengers since March after the Pandemic Disease COVID-19 shutdown and the second cruise liner to berth at Pinto […]
Research – Seismic survey first phase of Campos Basin, Brazil completed – 16.06.2020
PGS vessel RAMFORM TITAN has completed acquisition on the first two parts of a new long offset GeoStreamer-X seismic survey in Campos Basin. The majority of the coverage so far targets areas for the Brazil 17th Bidding Round scheduled for early 2021. Fast track data will be available through the third and fourth quarters of 2020. […]
Cruise Liner News – COSTA VICTORIA sold – 15.06.2020
Costa Crociere announced that they sold the cruise liner COSTA VICTORIA to San Giorgio del Porto Group (part of the holding Genova Industrie Navali). No official mention has been made by Costa’s parent company Carnival Corporation. Built in Germany and entering service in 1996, COSTA VICTORIA is a relatively “young” ship and she could still sail several […]
Offshore News – Stena Drilling awarded contract in Bahamas – 26.05.2020
Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has signed an offshore drilling rig contract with Stena Drilling. BPC will use the drilling rig to drill its Perseverance #1 prospect offshore The Bahamas. As previously reported, BPC has postponed the Perseverance #1 drilling operation from H1 2020 to Q4 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic disease outbreak, and to […]
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION – MOBY ZAZA accomodation ship for immigrants – 18.05.2020
The 1982 built ropax MOBY ZAZA owned by Moby Lines SpA was awarded the tender of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transports to face the accommodation emergency related to sea rescue with illegal immigration. On Sunday 10th May around 0200 hrs she arrived at Porto Empedocle with checks and controls followed by the Harbour […]
Coronavirus – Philippine Navy to deliver PPE’s to Philippines – 22.04.2020
The Naval Task Force (NTF) 82, consisting of the offshore patrol vessel BRP RAMON ALCARAZ PS 16 and landing ship BRP DAVAO DEL SUR LD 602, left Muscat , Oman on Tuesday 21st April and will make a stop at Kochi in India to pick up personnel protective equipment (PPE) before heading home to the […]
Coronavirus – COSTA ATLANTICA in Nagasaki, Japan – 25.04.2020
Nearly 150 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed among crew members of an Italian cruise liner COSTA ATLANTICA docked in Japan after health authorities finished testing everyone on board, an official said on Saturday 25th April, 2020. Specialists from the health ministry said Wednesday 22nd April, 2020 that a cluster of coronavirus infections is […]
Coronavirus – French Aircraft Carrier FS CHARLES DE GAULLE R 91 reports 50 positive cases – 10.04.2020
The French aircraft carrier FS CHARLES DE GAULLE R 91 registered 50 cases of novel coronavirus among the crew, the armed forces ministry said on Friday 10th April. Three sailors had been evacuated from the vessel to a military hospital in the Mediterranean port of Toulon as a “precaution”. However, none of the crew who […]
Coronavirus – Diamond Princess confirms 99 new cases – 17.02.2020
Another 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus aboard the cruise ship DIAMOND PRINCESS berthed at Yokohama, south of Tokyo in Japan bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 454. Hundreds of American passengers from the liner, where travellers have been mostly confined to their cabins since 3rd February, have been flown back to the […]
