The amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24), the eighth built at Huntington Ingalls Industries, recently returned from successful builder’s sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. Dock trials started last week, and the ship left HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Aug. 21 for three days of at-sea
Incat Crowther announces that it has been awarded a contract to design a 32m catamaran ferry for Ishigaki Dream Tours. Super Dream will be built by Richardson Devine Marine and will be the second Incat Crowther/RDM vessel for the operator, after 2008’s Premium Dream. True to Incat Crowther’s ethos o
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA, a leading U.S. commercial shipyard has delivered to Crowley a Veteran Class MT-46 product tanker. This is the thirteenth product tanker that the shipyard has completed and the seventeenth vessel overall. The product tankers are 600 feet long and have a cargo capacity
CIC Changxing Shipyard has completed the repair works of MV Deniz-M, a bulk carrier owned by a Turkish company. The main repair works included the M/E cylinder overhaul, the repair of main sea water pump & ballast pump, the fire pump overhaul, the renewal of hatch cover rubber packing and the Cargo
ANADOLU (ADIK) Shipyard has successfully delivered to Turkish Naval Forces Command TCG Ç-158, the Eight vessel of three years long 8 strong vessel Landing Craft Tank (LCT) project. Thus for the first time a Navy project undertaken by a privately owned Naval Shipyard is completed on time and on sched
Gisan has signed a new conversion project. The vessel will be converted to self-discharging bulk carrier with conveyor belts that allows the vessel to discharge cargoes quickly and efficiently. The new system will manage itself all automatically. It is a turn key project and Gisan will deliver the v
The workforce in the Hunter for the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Project has now hit almost 700 across Forgacs’ two Newcastle Shipyard facilities in Tomago and Carrington. There three AWDs are being built for the Australian Navy. Construction of the AWDs involves the fabrication of 90 separate steel
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) answered the call for 132 repairs to U.S. and foreign surface ships taking part in the 2012 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise that ended August 3. Held every two years by the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the two-month-long RIM
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the Research Vessel (RV 3609) ‘Simon Stevin’ to its Belgian client DAB Vloot, the Flemish governmental fleet operator. The RV 3609 was jointly designed by Damen Shipyards Gorinchem and VLIZ, the Flemish Institute for the Sea. While hull and hotworks were built at
Incat Crowther announces the successful completion of the re-fit of the 43m Catamaran Ferry Seastreak Wall Street. Seastreak Wall Street was the third of four such vessels built by Gladding Hearn in Massachusetts, and was launched in 2003. The vessels were originally fitted with four Cummins KTA50 m
The Government will continue to support the construction of modern ships for the Naval Forces of Ukraine. This was stated by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov during his visit a public joint stock company “Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant”, which conducted a comprehensive repair of Naval Forces’ ships and co
The ceremony of Delivery and Acceptance of MD096, 25.000 DWT IMO II Chemical/Product Tanker named Reinhold Schulte, was successfully carried out in the evening of 27th August. The vessel comes as the sixth one delivered by Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry to Anthos Shipping Co. Limited. The overall len
The development of the shipbuilding industry will help Ukraine to solve the problem with the sale of metal. The Prime Minister Nykolay Azarov disclosed it on air of the Nykolaev Regional State Broadcasting Company. “For us, the shipbuilding is one of the key industries that can use our domestic meta
Princess Cruises yesterday marked the beginning of construction of the second of its new generation of ships with the official keel laying ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. At the same time the line announced that the ship’s name will be Regal Princess. The vessel, a sister
