Twelve fishers on the Portuguese-flagged Novo Ruivo have gone eight months without pay while stranded in Mindelo, Cape Verde, with $68,420 in wage arrears, prompting ITF action over C188 violations.
The 4,500 t OSS Jasmund offshore substation topside has been transported through central Rotterdam on Heerema’s H-408 barge after load-out at HSM Offshore Energy’s Stormpolder yard, bound for the Windanker wind farm.
United Heavy Lift has completed a heavy-lift shipment of two IHC B65 dredgers, about 378 t each, on UHL Fighter between Rotterdam and Balikpapan after a 36-day incident-free voyage.
State-owned Oil India has begun an offshore exploration campaign in the Kerala-Konkan Basin, spudding a 6000 m well about 20 nautical miles off the Indian coast, one of India’s deepest offshore wells.
Equinor is weighing whether Bay du Nord FPSO topsides modules can be fabricated in Newfoundland & Labrador, as Premier Tony Wakeham, unions and contractors seek local work while cost and skills concerns remain.
