VT Halter Marine has won another contract to build articulated tug barges for Crowley Maritime Corp.’s subsidiary, Vessel Management Services. The four tug barges are valued at $236 million. The tug and barge combination transport vessel is a joint design of Pascagoula-based VT Halter and Crowley, w
Politicians from different parties have come together to discuss plans for the future of a troubled shipyard. In July, the Ministry of Defence said the unfinished ship Lyme Bay would be handed over from Swan Hunter, in Wallsend, to BAE Systems, at Govan. It said the decision was down to an increase
A naming ceremony for the first warship to be entirely built in Portsmouth for nearly 40 years is taking place. HMS Clyde is the first vessel to emerge from the Hampshire naval base since 1967, when Leander-class frigate HMS Andromeda was completed. The 80-metre (262ft) offshore patrol vessel will b
BP America Chairman and President Bob Malone today announced that he has retained three eminent corrosion experts to independently review and make recommendations for improving the corrosion inspection, monitoring and prevention program in place at Prudhoe Bay and in other BP-operated Alaska oil fie
A new success story for the De Valk France, as the Astondoa 102 GLX megayacht Putty has been sold by certified yacht broker Jan Jaap Minnema. This splendid 102 GLX was build in 2003 and refitted in 2005 and was the only Astondoa yacht larger than 100 feet currently on the market. Her highlights incl
At MEYER WERFT in Papenburg the keel was laid today of the first gas tanker out of a series of four for the Norwegian shipping line Solvang ASA. Magne Morken from Solvang put the traditional lucky penny under the first of a total of 18 blocks of
A 30-mile almost complete circumnavigation of the Archipelago de La Maddalena, with a light north easterly breeze of 7-9 knots, was the feature of the second day of the 2006 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo, Italy yesterday. The leaders of the Racing division fought an interesting battle where so
Store chain Asda has called on the UK to abandon Europe’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and urged conservation of North Sea cod for British fishermen. The company said the protection of fishermen’s livelihoods – particularly in Scotland – required drastic measures to preserve stocks. An Asda spokesm
SUBSEA 7 INC. (OSE Symbol: SUB) announced today that it has received an award of contract valued in excess of US $70 million from Total E&P Nederland B.V. acting on behalf of its Partners for work in the Dutch Sector of the Southern North Sea. Subsea 7 will undertake engineering, procurement, constr
Many of the marine industry companies in the Turku region in the southwest of Finland want to alleviate their labour shortage by hiring migrant workers. In order to invite new workers to the field, a recruitment meeting was organised in Helsinki on Tuesday. In the Turku region, there are already hun
KUCHING: Hock Seng Lee Bhd (HSL) will develop a RM50mil shipbuilding industrial zone in the new township of Tanjung Manis in central Sarawak. The proposed zone of 142ha will cater for the construction, repair and maintenance of ships and other related downstream activities. HSL signed a memorandum o
A French shipyard wants to sell the Canadian navy on a maintenance formula designed to ensure our troubled submarine fleet spends more time at sea. Direction des Constructions Navales, known as DCN, is based in Cherbourg, France. But representatives are in Halifax this week touting a maintenance met
Scientists from the United States are sifting through 45 tonnes of blubber and bones at the Kellys Cove wharf to try to determine how an endangered whale died off Yarmouth. A coast guard patrol vessel spotted the dead northern right whale Sunday about 12 kilometres off the Nova Scotia coast and towe
Two Antiguan-flagged cargo ships collided off the Kent coast when one overtook the other. Dover Coastguard said the accident between the Dealer and the Vindo happened 17 miles off Ramsgate, in the Dover Strait, at 0230 BST. Watch manager Frank O’Neill said no pollution occurred and no-one was hurt,
