In April, Cargotec secured new contracts to deliver MacGregor anchor-handling, mooring and towing solutions for 15 offshore support vessels (OSV) of various types being built in China for Asian customers. The ships are being built in several shipyards in China for delivery throughout 2013 and 2014 to Coastal Offshore, Nam Cheong, Ezion Holding and Middle [...]
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announces that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with VimpelCom OJSC (trademark “Beeline”), MegaFon OJSC and Rostelecom OJSC to jointly lay and operate an underwater fiber-optic cable joining the Russian Far East with Sakhalin Island. The project, dubbed ‘Sakhalin-Magadan-Kamchatka’, will kick-off in [...]
Thanks to monitoring systems from KONGSBERG, underwater operations can be more environment-friendly. The need for environment-friendly maritime operations is highlighted at Expo 2012. Owing to increasing pressures on ocean territories, ever more stringent environmental standards are being set for vessels and offshore operations. Having real-time eyes and ears under water and on the seabed can [...]
Catalist-listed, IEV Holdings Limited announces that its 30% associate, IEV (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd has safely and successfully completed the two turnkey decommissioning projects (the “Decom Projects”) awarded by Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd ahead of schedule on 7 May 2012. Worth a total of RM27.0 million, the scope of work for the two Decom Projects included [...]
Myanmar’s Post and Telecoms Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju expressed the interest of the country to share Bangladesh’s submarine cable, The Daily Star reported. Speaking at a seminar “Submarine Cable Connecting Ocean Going Countries Economic Maritime Boundary” organized by Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), the Minister said that the existing submarine cable of Myanmar is not [...]
Yesterday Dhiraagu announced that the submarine cable repair ship ASEAN Explorer reached the cable damage point approximately 26km off Sri Lanka and that the engineers have started the repair work. Engineers from SLT and Dhiraagu are also on board the repair ship. The ship has located the damaged part of the cable using a [...]
TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology has completed construction of the TGN-EA (Jeddah) and TGN-Gulf undersea cables for Tata Communications. TGN-EA (Jeddah) connects Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India, while TGN-Gulf links Oman, India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain. Both TGN-EA (Jeddah) and TGN-Gulf [...]
After the Dhiraagu’s announcement about submarine cable repair ship ‘ASEAN Explorer’ getting ready for the repair of the broken cable, the company yesterday announced that the ship is due to arrive in Colombo on 25th April 2012 for the repairs. Dhiraagu is constantly in touch with the ship and working with the relevant authorities and [...]
Government of State of Gujarat announced its plans to develop tidal energy project to determine its potential for meeting state’s rising energy demands, reports Power Engineering. With state’s huge potential and longest coast, Gujarat is set to become a renewable energy hub. According to sources in the state energy and petrochemicals department, the state is [...]
Maldives telecommunications provider Dhiraagu announces that due to a damage caused to the Maldives-Sri Lanka international submarine cable, the international capacity going out of Maldives have been affected. Limited service is restored through Dhiraagu’s diversity routes and customers using internet will experience a degraded service. The fault on the cable has been located approximately at [...]
