LM Wind Power, the world’s leading wind turbine blade manufacturer, supplier of components and services to the wind industry announced that CEO Roland Sundén is leaving after six years with the company. His successor will be the subject of a future announcement. The senior management team remains co
The U.S. Navy yesterday awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $2.38 billion fixed-price-incentive contract for the detail design and construction of the multipurpose amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7). The ship will be built at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division. “Large-deck amphibio
Bluefin Robotics, the leading provider of free-flooded, modular Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related technologies announced that the company has sold a Bluefin-21 system to US-based Phoenix International Holdings (Phoenix), an experienced marine services contractor which provides underw
At a traditional maritime handover ceremony held yesterday at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, Carnival Cruise Lines took delivery of the new 130,000-ton Carnival Breeze, the 24th vessel in the line’s fleet. Carnival Breeze will depart on its inaugural cruise from Venice this Sunday, J
Voith will display a functional model of the new vessel propulsion control system for Voith Schneider Propellers and Voith Radial Propellers at the ITS (International Tug, Salvage & OSV Convention) in Barcelona from May 28 to June 01, 2012. The new system offers various new electronic control and as
Dr. James R. McFarlane, OC, CD, P.Eng., FCAE, founder and president of International Submarine Engineering Ltd. received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on April 11th, 2012. Presented by The Honourable Steven Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Dr. McFarlane received his med
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) has taken delivery of the FORTE. The closing documentation has been completed to the satisfaction of Fairstar’s bankers, classification society and the Dutch Flag State. Fairstar has drawn down on the USD 247 million facility led by ING Bank and effected all outs
Statoil has awarded Maersk Drilling contract for chartering a completely new jack-up rig for the Dagny field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The jack-up rig will drill on the Dagny oil and gas field in the North Sea. Earlier this year Statoil and its partners chose a fixed processing platf
Statoil has awarded Maersk Drilling contract for chartering a completely new jack-up rig for the Dagny field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The jack-up rig will drill on the Dagny oil and gas field in the North Sea. Earlier this year Statoil and its partners chose a fixed processing platf
The subsea hardware market is expected to recover this year, following the global economic crisis and the repercussions of the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast that the subsea sector will continue its growth trend, reaching an annual total of $32 billion in expendit
The subsea hardware market is expected to recover this year, following the global economic crisis and the repercussions of the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast that the subsea sector will continue its growth trend, reaching an annual total of $32 billion in expendit
ERRIA, a shipping company specialized in providing administrative ship management, announced today, May 15th 2012, that it has sold and transferred vessel named ERRIA NIMMER in Iraklion in Crete, to the Uni-Tankers shipping line. MT ERRIA NIMMER is the seventh of nine vessels that the company is pla
Greek ship operator Delphin Shipping has pioneered a fuel-saving supramax bulk carrier that burns 14% less fuel oil than other vessels of its class, type and size. The vessel, Aquila, was based on a Chinese design by Shanghai Ship Research and Design Institute (SDARI), with a unique propulsion devic
McDermott International, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a fabrication contract for components of a deepwater platform in the Gulf of Mexico, by Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland BV. McDermott will construct 16 tendon buoyancy modules (“TBMs”) for the deepwater projec
