Bureau Veritas has awarded its first Energy Efficient Design label to the new 3,952-passenger cruise vessel ‘MSC Splendida’. Recently delivered to MSC from STX France’s St Nazaire yard, ‘MSC Splendida’ was officially named in Barcelona on July 12. Didier Chaleat, Senior Vice-President, Bureau Verita
The leading Chinese dredging company CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Company (GDC) and IHC Technical Services (IHC TS), part of IHC Merwede, have signed a five-year cooperation agreement for a full service package, namely IHC Life Cycle Support (LCS), for its IHC 7025MP® Cutter Suction Dredger fleet operati
MAN Diesel PrimeServ is addressing the present decline in the world economy and maritime shipping by introducing a financial product to help its customers invest in retrofit technology. The ‘Trident’ package aims to support shipowners looking to cut expenses by employing particular retrofit solution
Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) announces that, in conjunction with Boeing (NYSE: BA), the companies have achieved two major milestones to further develop and demonstrate capability enhancements to the High Integrity Global Positioning System (GPS) program for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The
The Oceangoing vessels division of Van der Velden Marine Systems will feature its latest developments at Navalshore 2009 which will be held on 19 – 21 August 2009, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The booth of Van der Velden is situated at stand number 73. Highlights of its presentation will include the B
CMB confirms that Bocimar International has sold the Capesize vessel Mineral London (2006-173,949 dwt). The net sale price amounts to USD 60.2 million. At the time of delivery of the vessel, scheduled to take place in the course of the fourth quarter 2009, a capital gain of approximately USD 5.7 mil
Retired ocean liner ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’ (‘QE2’) may continue life as a floating hotel in the Middle East or Africa. The vessel’s owner Nakheel, a division of Dubai World, has said it was evaluating options for the 1967-built vessel. Nakheel has been struggling due to the global financial crisis.
At the edge of a vast indoor tank, a team of university students watches intensely as a robotic vehicle attempts to negotiate an underwater obstacle course. The box-shaped robot, held in place within an outer frame, has been designed by a team from Heriot Watt University in Scotland. It is designed
A man suffered life-threatening injuries when a crane collapsed on to a ship at a container port. Fire crews were called to Southampton Docks, owned by DP World, at Dock Gate 20 in Western Avenue, at 0520 BST. The crane, a twin boom rig with the cab suspended on rails, toppled on to the ship, [&hell
UK-based shipping researcher and analyst Clarksons reported that the total tonnage of new ships ordered in June reached 1.83 million DWT. Chinese yards received some 80 percent of the orders (1.6 million DWT) and South Korean yards took the remaining tonnage.
Dutch Shipyard Padmos of Bruinisse, Stellendam, has recently completed the final of four conversions of French otter board trawlers to modern fly shooters. The conversion of the final vessel ‘Galibier’ took nine months and was the largest project undertaken by the Padmos yard.
The south Wales city of Newport is welcoming its first cruise ship, before about 800 passengers head west to nearby Cardiff for the day. The cruise ship, ms Prisendam, which is more than 200m (600ft) long, is spending the day docked in Newport. Operator Associated British Ports said it hoped this wo
At the end of June, Liebherr delivered the first heavy lift offshore crane type MTC 78000 from its manufacturing plant in Rostock. The MTC 78000 is one of the biggest offshore slewing cranes in the world. With a maximum dynamic torque of 78,000 tonnes, the MTC 78000 is the most powerful machine with
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce that the Thunder Hawk DeepDraft Semi(TM) commenced processing production from the Thunder Hawk Field in Mississippi Canyon Block 734 on 8 July 2009. The Thunder Hawk field is located 240 kilometres south-east of New Orleans, in a water depth of 1,745 metres. Murph
