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LEHNKERING Reederei GmbH is adding a modern double-hulled gas tanker to its inland waterway fleet. The newly constructed liquid gas vessel LRG GAS 88 picked up its first load in the Netherlands and is currently being used to ship propylene and propane.

Orders for liquefied natural gas tankers are surging with new LNG supply from Qatar and Peru and a tripling of day-rates for such ships now pointing to peak demand in 2014-15 after years of poor sales.

Port of Tauranga is investing to handle bigger ships and expects earnings to grow despite an uncertain global economic outlook, says chairman John Parker.

BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards announced its first contract to build a new ship from scratch at its Mobile River facility.

Satcon Technology Corp has been selected to provide ten of its 1MW Prism Platform solutions for the New Jersey Oak Solar PV power plant in New Jersey, US.

The US Army has launched a new energy initiatives office (EIO) task force, which will aid in the development of large-scale renewable energy projects for the armed forces.

THDC India will receive a $648m loan from the World Bank to build a 444MW hydro power project on Alaknanda River in Uttarakhand, India.

De Poli Tankers BV announces that on the 11th of August , early AM at Rotterdam, company took delivery of the chemical parcel tanker ‘Clipper Caribe” which has been renamed into ‘Davino D’

A second ship of the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) left the naval base here yesterday to serve as the auxiliary vessel for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) operating in the Gulf of Aden.

As energy demand is rising again, the year 2011 marks a turning point in the oil & gas industry with increased investments in the entire value chain. Offshore Energy in Amsterdam (11 & 12 October 2011), clearly

As a first of an undisclosed number of vessels to come, a Shanghai shipyard delivered a bulk grains carrier to Cuban officials. The 35,000-ton Abdala was built under an agreement between Chinese state company China National Machinery Import

Richardson Devine Marine announces that RDM Hull 055 is a new generation 35 metre utility workboat for the Offshore Unlimited Group. RDM’s relationship with the offshore Unlimited Group started in 2008 with Unlimited

Fujian Southeast Shipyard delivered one more working vessel a production oil tanker. This 3.800DWT vessel named Sikinos was made for the Greek owner and was successfully delivered on 13 August.

Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV) announces the successful completion of the world’s first vessel-to-FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) personnel transfers, using a heave-compensated marine walk-to-work system.

GDF SUEZ and International Power has signed two power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to secure the entire output from its two 99MW wind farms being constructed in Ontario, Canada.

Guinea is holding talks with China International Water & Electric (CWE) for the construction of the Kaleta dam in Guinea, to increase the power generation in the nation.

Duke Energy plans to construct the 200MW Los Vientos I wind power project in Texas, US, and sell the power generated from the plant to CPS Energy.

A&P TYNE is building on its success in a new business sector with the completion of yet another subsea structure for an offshore oil and gas field.

With defence ministry shipyards unable to meet the Indian Navy’s growing need for warships, New Delhi had no choice but to look to Russian shipyards. Now, with Britain looking to partner India to cut the UK’s warship building costs, one of India’s new private defence shipyards

European Union strategies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from ships will not move freight away from trucks to waterborne transport as desired, but increase truck volumes, says the European Shippers Council (ESC).