Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilder, today announced the Company had won orders for 4 liquefied natural gas carriers and 1 LNG floating storage regasification unit worth USD 1.1 billion. Hyundai Heavy won orders to build two 162,000 cbm LNG carriers for Golar LNG of Norway on F
On 9 March Scandlines and P+S shipyards will be celebrating the christening of the Berlin in Stralsund. She is the first of two ferry newbuilds that Scandlines will put into service on the Rostock–Gedser route in 2012. Her sister ship, the Copenhagen, will be christened in May, also in Stralsund. By
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Sperry Marine business unit has delivered a state-of-the-art suite of navigation electronics for a new megayacht being built by Proteksan-Turquoise Yachts in Turkey. The new megayacht is being equipped with a complete Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine VisionMaster FT(TM)
Blue Star Patmos, owned by Blue Star Ferries, is currently undergoing first sea trials in the Sea of Japan. Her delivery is scheduled to take place during the first three months of 2012. Her sister vessel Blue Star Delos was successfully completed and has been operating in the Cyclades, Piraeus-Paro
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd announced today that its marine arm, ST Marine, has won two shipbuilding contracts worth about S$75m from Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Ltd (SPO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited. These contracts to build and outfit two Anchor Handl
Soon after the Spring Festival, three important nodes bad been reached within three days, which brought a good start to SF shipyard. On February 1st , 57000 DWT BC (Hull No: SF110101）, the first one of two bulk carriers contracted between HK owner CE Line 1 Corporation and SF shipyard, had a success
The first launching ceremony in this year for REMONTOWA Shipbuilding SA was held on January 17th 2012. The vessel which has been launched, is built for one of the biggest Norwegian Owner – Torghatten Nord AS. The vessel will be named „VÆRØY”, as one of the islands belonging to the Lofoten archipelag
The fifth tanker of Armada type built by Besiktas Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, named Mugan, has sailed from the Shipyard on February 11, 2012. The tanker proceeds for loading 5000 metric tons naphta from Azov to one port of Mediterranean sea. Besiktas Shipyard is one of the best established ship buil
The next Independence variant littoral combat ship (LCS) will be named the USS Gabrielle Giffords, said Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus last week. The selection of Gabrielle Giffords, designated LCS 10, honors the former Congresswoman from Tucson, Ariz., and who is known for supporting the military
Steamship company Safmarine held a naming ceremony in Savannah for its newest vessel, the Sahara, Friday. Built at the Wuhu Xinlian Shipyard in China, the ship is Safmarine’s second newly-built multi-purpose vessel (MPV), which allows the service to handle both containerized and break bulk cargo. “W
This week, 10 Damen Stan Tugs arrived in Gorinchem: 4 x STu 1606, 4 x STu 1205 and 2 x STtu 1004. The tugs were built at Damen Shipyards Changde, one of Damen’s six locations in China. Both Damen’s Stan Tug and ASD Tug series are regularly built for delivery from stock, which reduces delivery [&hell
The construction works of the new 3,200 passenger cruise ferry Tanit, which will account for the biggest one in the Mediterranean Sea, are considerably progressing at the Korean shipyard Daewoo. BNP Paribas, a group of foreign banks and La Société Générale will co-finance 80% of this project under t
Harvey Gulf International Marine ordered two additional 302’ X 64’, Dual Fuel Offshore Supply Vessels, bringing its total order to four. The contract signed today with Trinity Offshore is a follow on to the first two vessel order placed in October of 2011. Trinity will build all four vessels at thei
Office of Naval Research (ONR) revealed that a West Coast-based shipyard has been awarded $70 million for the construction of the second of two modern oceanographic research vessels. Following a previously awarded contract for AGOR 27, the first of the two new research vessels, Dakota Creek Industri
