The Coast Guard and Washington Dept. of Ecology are responding to a potential environmental hazard involving a sunken 200-foot section of dry dock that contained the 140-foot tug Invader, at the Vigor Marine Shipyard in Everett, Wash., Sunday. The dry dock began sinking on Saturday evening and stopp
On March 17th, after christening and name-giving by Eva Pot, m.v. Vikingbank (yard No. 406) was launched at Shipyard Ferus Smit, Westerbroek. The Vikingbank is the sixth vessel in the Pot Scheepvaart fleet christened by this twenty year old sports-management student. Soon the now vacant slipway will
STX OSV Holdings Limited, designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announced that it has secured a new contract for the construction of one advanced subsea support vessel for Island Offshore. The value of the contract amounts to more than NOK 500 million. The vessel will be of
In order to keep in line with the current shipping market and speed up the research and development on new-type vessels, Jinhai Heavy Industry had cooperation with KOMAC on designing 74,500 DWT Bulk Carrier. The design work of hull has just come to an end while subsequent works are also underway, go
The WOC and the Australian Association for Maritime Affairs (AAMA) are collaborating to ensure that ocean industries have the opportunity to provide input to “Rio + 20”– the decadal UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio de Janeiro, 20-22 June 2012) for which oceans are a thematic priority. T
On the occasion of the Cruise Shipping Miami Conference and Exhibition, the most important event of the year, Fincantieri announced it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Coast Guard for the construction of 40 boats, scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2013. With an approximate val
Minister for Defence Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced that the Government had agreed to purchase the Offshore Support Vessel MSV Skandi Bergen. The Skandi Bergen will add to the Royal Australian Navy’s current amphibious ships, HMAS Choules and HMAS Tobruk.
In the afternoon of March 16th, the delivery documents for No.2 16.900 DWT Bulk Carrier (HULL NO.:SF080102 ) were signed in the Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co. Administrative Office Building. The vessel was the second one among 8 sister vessels contracted with POLSTEAM by Sanfu shipyard and is cl
One of them concerns construction of two modern car – passenger ferries for the shipping company in Norway. The Owner has significant fleet for serving public transport in Norway. Four shuttle car – passenger ferries built in REMONTOWA SHIPBUILDING are part of them. To improve his competitiveness th
Austal’s order backlog has grown by US$691 million as a result of two additional Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) contract options being exercised by the United States Navy. The contract options fund construction of the Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) and Omaha (LCS 12), the third and fourth ships in the 10 s
The U.S. Navy has issued a Lockheed Martin-led industry team a $715 million contract modification to add funding for construction of two Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) – the third and fourth in a 10-ship contract awarded in December 2010. The contract modification is for construction of Little Rock (LC
ABS will class the first-of-its-kind Arctic Containment System (ACS), slated for deployment in June 2012 to serve all exploration activities in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas offshore Alaska. The non self-propelled ice-strengthened barge will be converted to a floating offshore installation and will
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that the company’s sixth amphibious transport dock, San Diego (LPD 22), sailed away from Ingalls Shipbuilding facilities last night en route to her commissioning site in San Diego. “We’re watching this ship leave today with a lot of pride,” said Doug Lou
TORM has entered into an agreement to cancel one MR product tanker newbuilding, which was scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2014. The parties have agreed not to disclose the terms. “With this agreement, TORM’s order book is empty. A substantial reduction in CAPEX commitments has been a
