AAL, a breakbulk, project cargo and heavy lift shipping operator, has expanded its liner services division to the oil rich mining region of Northern Alberta, Canada.
Smit Sinapore and Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) jv Asian Lift has named the world’s largest sheer leg crane - Asian Hercules III.
Members of Greenpeace have intercepted Shell’s 38,000 tonne Polar Pioneer oil rig en route to the Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic.
AAL, a global breakbulk, project cargo and heavy lift shipping operator, has discouraged the building of new ships amid the shipping industry’s tonnage oversupply.
AAL has redeployed 25,800 dwt multipurpose heavy-lift vessel AAL Galveston on long-term charter to its Tramp and Projects Division.
State-owned Cosco Shipping Limited (Coscol) has exercised options for two 28,000 dwt heavy lift vessels at Shanghai Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding.
Damen Shiprepair has won a contract for dry-docking and upgrade work on Technip heavy lift and rigid pipelay vessel Global 1200.
Cosco Shipping Limited (Coscol) has booked a sharp increase in net profit for the financial year 2014, as it benefitted from cost cutting measures and government subsidies.
The largest vessel in the world, heavy lift and pipelayer Pieter Schelte, has arrived in Rotterdam to undergo final assembly in the inner lake of Maasvlakte 2.