Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. Inc. has struck a deal with Trico Marine Services Inc. to build a pair of 210-foot offshore supply ships, the partners have announced. Trico (Nasdaq: TRMA) valued the deal at $35 million. Construction will start at Bender’s Mobile shipyard during the first quarter of
A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of three sailors who drowned in the English Channel after their yacht disappeared, police have said. The man, who was a crew member on a P&O ferry, was arrested yesterday morning at a police station in Ham
As visitors poured into the Southampton Boat Show to admire the many exhibits on display 70 British companies are proudly promoting British excellence overseas, as part of the Superyacht UK pavilion at the Monaco Yacht Show. Nearly half (30) of the companies exhibiting are based in the UK pavilion i
Among the American companies working to rebuild the war-torn and neglected Iraqi landscape is a Maryland manufacturer that recently won contracts for dredging equipment worth millions of dollars.Ellicott Dredges, a division of Baltimore Dredges LLC, has supplied equipment for projects from Baltimore
Cruise ship operator Carnival Corp.’s Holland America Line hired SeaMobile Enterprises to provide the company’s 13 ships with wireless cell phone and personal digital assistant device communications, SeaMobile said Wednesday. SeaMobile will begin installing wireless equipment on the ships later this
The stubborn, headlong rush toward the creation of more absurdly large ships continues without letup. Last month, Norwegian Cruise Lines announced that it has contracted with a French shipyard to build at least two — perhaps three — 150,000-ton vessels, each capable of carrying at least 4,200 passen
New Zealand’s innovative marine industry is on Europe’s radar this week with a dozen of its leading exporters exhibiting at the Monaco Yacht Show. Devoted to luxury yachting developments, the event showcases 520 marine companies from around the world, while 90 of the world’s finest superyachts will
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., (HHI) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) with Jiangsu Shagan Group Co., Ltd. to import 180,000 ton of shipbuilding steel plates annually. Including this contract, HHI is expected consume 22% of its steel plate requirement(3.2million ton) requirement
A company from the Nam Trieu shipbuilding industry, which is part of the Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin), won a contract on Sept. 20 to build a 54,000-tonne cargo ship and a 13,500-tonne oil tanker. The 54,000-tonne ship will be 190m long and 32.26m wide and have a main engine of 9,4
Abu Dhabi: Adnoc subsidiary Esnaad, a marine and supply base services company, has ordered five new vessels from Singapore at a cost of $60 million as part of its fleet replacement, a top company official revealed. Darwish A. Al Qubaisi, General Manager, said that the fleet replacement process is on
Global transportation and supply chain leaders APL and APL Logistics have been honored among the most innovative users of information technology by a pair of respected industry journals. APL was ranked first among all ocean container shipping lines in the 18th annual InformationWeek 500 listing of t
A piece of pioneering technology will greet Norwegian finance minister Kristin Halvorsen today, 21 September, when she performs the official inauguration of the Kristin field. This Statoil-operated gas and condensate field, which lies at the southern end of the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea, is c
The cargo ship “Clipper Lasco,” which ran aground off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week, was refloated successfully on Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. “First thing this morning, at high tide, the vessel did refloat,” Coast Guard spokesman Luis Diaz said. He said the 645-foot (197-meter), Bah
Amsterdam’s City Council said Wednesday it has ordered an independent investigation into a ship that carried waste blamed for the deaths of seven people in Ivory Coast. The ship, the Probo Koala, was chartered by a Netherlands-based company, Trafigura Beheer BV, and had unsuccessfully tried to unloa
