A/S Thor Dahl Shipping of Sanderjord, Norway has purchased South Pacific InterLine (SPI) from Reederi AB Gotland of Visby, Sweden.
Thor Dahl Shipping assigned its San Francisco-based shipping company, South Seas Steamship (SSS), full responsiblity for managing SPI's vessels, including scheduling and port calls into Tahiti, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii.
Under the cooperative agreement, both SSS and SPI will maintain separate identities.
SSI has already taken steps to rationalize the service. The 450- TEU Kochnev will be replaced with a larger and faster vessel that will join the 700-TEU Moana Pacific in a rotation that cuts round-trip transit time by nearly a week between North America, the Pacific Islands and Australia.
SSS added the 256-TEUApoZZo to make dedicated calls directly between Southern California and Pago Pago, where it primarily serves the tuna cannery there.
. American Samoa Governor Peter Tali Coleman commented, "Southwest Marine brings a muchneeded, full-service ship repair capability to the South Pacific." He added that "Southwest Marine is committed to building that capability by the retraining and employment of American Samoan workers." The
to succeed Brigadier General Richard Kaiser, who headed out to serve in Afghanistan. General Toy was previously the Commanding General of the Corps’ South Pacific Division. On August 3, Steven L. Stockton, P.E., SES, retired as Director of Civil Works for the Corps, the highest civilian position in the agency
partnership with the International Maritime Organization (IMO). IMO also organized Ferry Safety Information-Sharing Forums in South East Asia and the South Pacific. These experiences indicated that one of the most difficult problems to address was the lack of safe affordable ferries. WFSA’s Executive Director
.72 feet in length, 85.30 feet in width, with a depth of 19.68 feet, and it will be capable of docking the deepsea fishing fleet operating in the South Pacific and Antarctic, cargo and passenger vessels and most of the supply ships currently working on the offshore oil drilling program off the southern
in the world, and into ports that larger cruise ships cannot enter." One ship will sail in the Mediterranean, and the others in the Far East, South Pacific, and Caribbean. The yacht-like ships will carry only 120 passengers, all in large, outside suites, and crews of 50, with all crew members berthed
includes the Far East in the spring, Alaska/Vancouver in the summer, the west coast of Mexico/ Panama Canal/Caribbean for autumn and the South Pacific/Oceania/ Southeast Asia for winter. On her 12 decks, this luxury liner will have two restaurants, several lounges, a night club, cafe, cinema
and safety standards for domestic and international operations. Glacier Bay expects to operate the vessel in Hawaii and the South Pacific during winter seasons. Matt Nichols, president of the building yard, said that the vessel will be the largest cruising catamaran ever built
the Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., to provide offshore salvage services for the U.S. Navy in a major portion of the North and South Pacific Ocean Area. The firm is a division of Crowley Maritime Corporation, San Francisco-based operator of one of the world's largest fleets
number of passengers carried. Together with Holland America Line and Windstar Cruises, it currently operates 176 ships in Alaska, the Caribbean, South Pacific and the Orient. The company also operates Carnival's Crystal Palace Resort & Casino, a 1,550-room property in Nassau, Bahamas. Carnival also
II Marine Corps hero for whom the vessel is named. Her daughter, Catherine Evans, served as maid of honor. For his battlefield heroism on the South Pacific island of Tarawa, Lt. Bonnyman was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Guest speaker at the naming ceremony was U.S. Representati
is known both for his substantial catches and for his trawl designs. The world has been Mr. Ruhr's fishing ground, from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific to the Bering Sea. Success has likewise followed him from Greenland to Chile to Alaska. The veteran skipper will now turn his attention again
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(MBES), allows Unique to boost its subsea equipment rental pool. The order will swell the capacity of Unique’s Singapore base, giving customers in South East Asia fresh access to the calibration free µPAP SSBL sys- tems and the lightweight, robust and user-friendly EM2042, globaloceandesign.com launched
FEATURE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS Kevin Mackay, TESMaP voyage leader and Center head of the South and West Paci? c Regional Centre of Seabed 2030. Kevin in the seismic lab at Greta Point looking at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano 3D map completed with data from the TESMaP voyage
, Copan, Tiscapa and Torogoz. The 1,400 TEU ves- sels were ordered in 2022 by Singapore-based Eastern Paci? c Shipping (EPS) for scheduled delivery from South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in 2025. EPS will charter the ships out to Crowley, who will deploy them on its U.S.-Central America trade connecting
gas offshore support vessels have been widely nol is a preferred energy carrier although hydrogen and liquid deployed to support construction logistics. South Korea, Ja- organic hydrogen carriers also feature. pan and, in the longer-term, Vietnam and Australia, are fore- Battery energy storage systems feature
Eversource’s portfolio of offshore wind farms in the Northeast, including the Revolu- American Offshore Services tion Wind project in Rhode Island and the South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind projects in New York. The vessel will be An of? cial launch ceremony was held to celebrate the com- missioning of a new
, are presently under construction at Edi- son Chouest facilities. ECO Edison, an SOV (set to support Ørsted and Eversource projects Revolution Wind, South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind) is under construction at its Houma, La. facility. Filings with the U.S. Maritime www.marinelink.com MN 29
, in March, the Army Corps approved a permit 218,000 members (River and Harbors Act of 1899) for Orsted’s Revolution Wind project approximately 15 miles south of Rhode Is- land. The ACE permit area could include up to 65 wind turbines, eventually requiring 155 miles of inter-connecting
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the eWolf Marine News goes aboard Crowley’s new fully electric harbor tug, the ? rst of its kind in the United States. By Eric Haun Eric Haun Ørsted South Fork Wind 32 4 Editor’s Note 16 OpEd: US Shipbuilding & Repair 40 Vessels By Matthew Paxton, 42 People & Company News Shipbuilders Council
for over 35% of global power electrolyzers and other production, storage and of? oad- installations. ing systems. Concepts are being developed in South Korea The third most active ? oating production region from 2024- and Europe. 2030 is forecast to be Asia Paci? c. Over 60% of the activity • Finally
of new ? oating pro- ments. duction units installed between 2024 and 2030 will be located At the same time, the ? oating wind segment will move from in South and Central American countries, of which Brazil and demonstration and pilot scale projects to pre-commercial and Guyana will account for around 90%
companies are facing something of a per- fect storm in 2024 with the Red Sea attacks, potential escala- tion of tensions between the US and China in the South China Sea (which could impact trade routes further) and even some signs of piracy returning around Somalia. Business Interruption Rounding out the
stage in the federal permitting process. rebid into new solicitations. The Commonwealth Wind, And it is not just federal agencies that are advancing off- SouthCoast Wind, Pack City Wind, Empire Wind 1 and shore wind. The state of Louisiana has signed two leases in 2, Beacon Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind projects
are known to have such combat AUVs under develop- we are witnessing the real-time evolution of offensive mine ment, including Russia, China, North and South Korea, In- warfare via the deployment of hybrid weapons leveraging dia, Taiwan, Israel, France, the UK, Australia, and the United the stealth and
(CFD) advance- life on a ? xed trans-Atlantic route be- meters tall with a projected area of 363 ments, encompassing the detailed mod- tween Europe and South America. square meters. Steel ships are of course elling of the intricate interaction among Modelling, and data from Energy much heavier than a
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ceremony with local dignitaries, Cordage Park is on Plymouth’s picturesque waterfront, provid- friends of Greensea, and maritime professionals from South ing a perfect backdrop for this innovative demonstration event. New England in attendance. – by Rhonda Moniz 28 November/December 2023 MTR #8
Vellore was named at a ceremony at the MMHE Pasir Gudang yard. Built by Hanwha Ocean (for- merly Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine En- gineering) in Geoje, South Korea, the ship is classi? ed by Lloyd’s Register. Eagle Vellore’s two sister vessels are cur- rently under construction by Hanwha Ocean and due
(FSUs), which has a combined deadweight The “Berlin Express” was built at the Hanwha Ocean ship- tonnage (dwt) capacity of over two million tons. yard in South Korea. With a length of almost 400 meters and Seri Damai and Seri Daya have enhanced cargo tank insu- a capacity of 23,600 TEU, it is the largest
Antarctica. Separate, but related research by the US Navy technologies that were game changers at their time of incep- at the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-South) pro- tion. Stately plainly, these technologies cannot keep pace with duced similar results in areas with no cell phone connectivity
in Europe, East Asia and the U.S. Further, we long-term contracted SOV supply has grown at a fairly steady anticipate new market entrants, including South America and rate, whereas the SOV segment is currently going through a Australia. signi? cant growth spurt. The one concern for this segment
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