Manila: Harbor Star Shipping Services, a Philippine provider of harbour assistance, lighterage, salvage and towing services, is expanding overseas beginning with a bid to serve two ports in Johor, ...

Kuala Lumpur: ExxonMobil subsidiary, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc, has started operations at Malaysia's first large-scale enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project at Tapis. "This ...

Jakarta: Authorities are warning ships travelling through Indonesia need to be highly vigilant as severe haze envelopes large parts of Sumatra. The extreme pollution of the past fortnight has seen ...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s UMW Oil & Gas has inked a $20m rig contract with Frontier Oil Corp, which will use the former's UMW Naga 7 jack-up rig for its drilling operations in Calauit field, the ...

Singapore: Singapore-headquartered Miclyn Express Offshore (MEO) announced that it has been awarded three contracts to provide anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) services to Chevron in the Gulf of ...

Singapore: Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) may sell its logistics business to CJ Korea Express, South Korea’s biggest courier delivery company, in an effort to improve its finances. CJ ...

Manila: Moves are afoot for the Philippines to follow Indonesia’s lead and ban mineral ore exports. The environment secretary has backed a proposal made last month by Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino that ...

Toronto: Canada’s Nautilus Minerals has entered into an agreement for the charter of a vessel to be first deployed for use at the Solwara 1 project in Papua New Guinea. Dubai’s Marine Assets ...

Hanoi: Vietcombank has sold off the $19m debt of Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) to Vietnam Debt and Asset Trading Corporation (DATC). Vinalines borrowed the loan from Vietcombank for a ...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Petroleum has allocated $500m of annual capital expenditure (capex) over the next three years, mainly to strengthen its drilling, energy services and fabrication ...

Singapore: Peter Illingworth, a well-known name in Singapore tanker circles, is moving on. Tomorrow he will leave DVB and go on gardening leave through to August. Illingworth holds the position of ...

Hanoi: Hanoi must do more to make a career at sea an attractive job proposition, local shipowners have urged, amid plenty of horror stories of stranded, starving crew from bankrupt Vietnamese shipping ...