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...Smart read Supply chain inflation and rising interest rates have created a crunch moment for the offshore wind sector....
...Loke, based in Norway’s oil capital Stavanger, is backed by companies including Norwegian defence contractor Kongsberg Gruppen, UK offshore engineer TechnipFMC and Norwegian shipping group Wilhelmsen....
...kilometre-long flexible hoses to offshore vessels....
...And when we tried to find out who was behind TGP Europe we found a very interesting press release from one of its contractors....
...But Zhongwang’s offshore expansion soon drew scrutiny from overseas regulators....
...Since the 2012 tender, the project has had to switch turbine suppliers after the first contractor ran into financial trouble....
...The US barely has an offshore wind sector for these vessels to service....
...If the chief executive of Aerojet Rocketdyne could meet Lichtenstein’s expectations in selling the defence contractor, a Birkin bag awaited. The fashion accessory can fetch more than $100,000....
...Houston’s Diamond Offshore Drilling filed for bankruptcy on Sunday with debts of more than $2.6bn, blaming the “unprecedented” impact of an oil price war and the coronavirus pandemic....
...I mean, from the customers you're talking to, are they concerned that China Inc, as it were, has cornered the market for battery materials?...
...That pushes responsibility for paying VAT on to contractors or merchants, who have much lower revenues and often don’t hit the minimum threshold for paying VAT....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 01. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...TankerTrackers said data from the Marine Traffic website showed 47 active tankers owned by one of the subsidiaries, describing it as a “truly global” company....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 20 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The far-right Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen, which is close behind LREM in the opinion polls, announced a 24-hour truce....
...Researcher Ella Hermonio in Manila contributed to this report A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 9, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The sale is expected to reduce American Media Inc’s debt to $355m....
...Lockheed says it is deploying new technologies used in the offshore oil industry such as autonomous underwater vehicles....
...Duncan Anderson, chief executive of Gulf Marine Services, said: “It’s been the longest, toughest downturn and there is still a degree of uncertainty at the rate at which spending will recover.”...
...In a synchronised response, offshore mega-deals by the country’s insurers have continued one after the other, highlighted by the $7.5bn acquisition of HCC by Tokio Marine three years ago....
...“There’s no impact on marine life. There’s a thriving mud crab industry in the area. People fish offshore where we are....
...He added that the project was hitting the contractors “at the low end of the cost cycle”....
...As a Nato member whose defence is subsidised by the US, Norway should not be investing in enemy governments [such as Iran] while undermining allies and American defence contractors....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 23 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“But it is equalising things a bit more [between offshore and onshore businesses].”...
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