Vattenfall’s German offshore project DanTysk has signed a contract on a vessel for the transportation and installation of 80 wind turbines. The installation vessel, Pacific Orca, is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea to be delivered in 2012.
Somali pirates hijacked a yacht with four Americans on board Friday afternoon in the Indian Ocean, officials said.
Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal in a move that puts the country's new military regime in a prickly position with its Israeli neighbor.
Oil leaking from a vessel which ran aground off Norway on Thursday evening is threatening the Kosterhavet national park off the west coast of Sweden.
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has won a $2 billion (Dh7.34 billion) order from AP Moeller-Maersk to build 10 of the world's biggest type of container ships, a source said yesterday, prompting a jump in the Korean firm's shares.
The heavy lift offshore crane, type CAL 64000 - 1500 Litronic®, specially developed by Liebherr for the company BELUGA HOCHTIEF Offshore, is to be installed from 2012 on the Innovation, a special jack-up vessel being built to quicken the assembly of offshore wind power stations. With this innovative jack-up vessel assembly and maintenance times will be significantly reduced, and productivity increased, claims the joint venture. 
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