Grandweld Shipyards has completed the delivery of Bourbon Gannet, the third Hybrid Seismic Support Vessel in a series of six for Bourbon Offshore. The vessel was handed over in a delivery ceremony held on Saturday November 23, 2013 at Grandweld facilities at Dubai Maritime City. The 54metre length, 50 Tons bollard pull vessel will…
Singapore: A product tanker owned by Wilmar caught fire yesterday, and the crew have lost control of the ship. The 30,000 dwt vessel, Theresa Bitung, flagged in Tuvalu, suffered the fire in its engine room some 272 nautical miles southeast of Vung Tau off Vietnam. All crew left the ship yesterday, picked up by…
JAKARTA— PT Terminal Petikemas Indonesia, subsidiary of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I, II, III and IV, will expand container terminal in Tanjung Priok port to prepare ahead of Asean Economic Community in 2015. President Director of PT Terminal Petikemas Indonesia Arif Suhartono said the expansion is carried out step by step. In the first step,…
State-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Pelindo III) will purchase loading and unloading equipment for Teluk Lamong Terminal in Surabaya, East Java, after securing Rp 1.4 trillion (US$121 million) in loans from the London offices of Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. The purchase will include 10 ship-to-shore cranes and 20 automated stacking cranes…