Zamil Offshore Services has inaugurated the diving support vessel ‘Algosaibi 51’, built especially for Khalifa Abdulrahman Al Gosaibi Diving Company. The vessel is 49 metres in length and twelve metres at the beam. It is powered by twin engines each delivering 1,200kW.
The Scottish Government has commissioned a study into the impact of the global recession on Scotland’s fishing industry. Scotland’s fisheries industry minister Richard Lochhead said that the government would support fishermen during difficult times.
According to figures from Japanese classification society Class NK, as of April, over 1,000 newbuild orders around the world were cancelled. Class NK said it expected the number of cancellations to rise as the year progressed. It said that cancellations now extended to vessels that were tentatively
Jurong Shipyard, Singapore, has secured a second SeaDragon rig order from Oban B to complete and deliver a Moss Maritime dynamically positioned (DP-3) semi-submersible drilling unit. The six-column bare deck hull, built in a Russian yard, arrived at Jurong Shipyard in early June. Following arrival,
ShipConstructor Software (SSI), in conjunction with two universities, eight shipyards and five design firms, has created comprehensive college-level materials for the instruction of modern shipbuilding, design and modelling. These educational resources have been designed to take students with a basi
Maersk Line New Zealand Country Manager Julian Bevis said that the chance of containerships bigger than the current-largest of 4,100TEU coming to ports in New Zealand in the short term was relatively small. “I don’t want to sound like a killjoy but I think it is less likely in the immediate term,” h
Vietnam: Bach Dang Shipbuilding Industry Corporation in Haiphong launched a new 22,500DWT cargo vessel, ‘Lucky Star’ on June 28. Measuring 153.2 metres by 26 metres by 13.75 metres, the vessel was designed by Vinakita, a joint venture between state-owned Vinashin and Japan’s Kitada. The vessel has a
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will soon solicit bids for the fourth and last dry excavation project. The project will be the final phase in creating an access channel that will link the new Pacific locks with the canal’s existing Gaillard Cut, the narrowest stretch of the Panama Canal. The scope
In the latest edition of the ongoing saga of the delay in the UK Navy’s Type-45 destroyer programme, Defpro.com has reported that a leaked memorandum showed that the programme could cost a further US$US$1.65 billion, bringing the total up by 25 percent to US$8.25 million.
GE Oil & Gas, a world leading company in oil and gas advanced technology equipment and services, has been awarded a contract worth over $70 million by StatoilHydro to upgrade a suite of subsea control systems for StatoilHydro’s Tordis Vigdis Controls Modification (TVCM) project. The solution will in
Kongsberg Maritime is proud to announce that its 100th deep-water multibeam Echo Sounder system has been ordered and will be delivered in November 2009 to the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). The contract, for delivery of a sophisticated EM 122 (1� x 1�) is part of the Multibeam Sonar Sy
The seismic survey vessel Ocean Explorer started acquisition of seismic data north of Senja, on Troms II, at 2230 hours last night. There is little fishery activity in the area and the survey activity is proceeding as planned. Acquisition of seismic data in Vesterålen started two days ago, and is al
Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) announces that Donna Bethea-Murphy, vice president of Regulatory Engineering for Iridium, was elected chairman of the board of the Satellite Industry Association (SIA), the leading trade association for the satellite industry. Bethea-Murphy already serves as a board m
Bremen played host to GIL’s (www.globeinst.org) annual press briefing this year where it announced the appointment of Dick Binkhorst of specialist management consultancy Experts for Experts(e4e) to its Global Board of Advisors (GBOA). The GBOA provides GIL support with strategic and technical advice
