Vigor Industrial, headquartered on Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, upon building a new 144-car ferry has terminated a subcontract with Tacoma-based J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding. According to Vigor, Martinac showed unwillingness towards meeting demands to lower its price to $14.8 million, which Vigor
Oceansaver has achieved a milestone for the ballast water treatment industry with the commissioning of the first treatment system to include filters on a crude oil tanker in Korea. The 159.000 DWT Suezmax tanker, Ottoman Integrity, is being delivered from a Korean shipyard for Turkish owner Gungen M
Namsung Shipping of Korea is preparing to place a new order for three 1,850 teu containerships at an undetermined South Korean yard, Seatrade Asia reports. The delivery is planned to be carried out by the first half of 2013 with the newbuilding boxships set to be deployed in Southeast Asia, includin
Earlier this month Bohandymar Limited, subsidiary of CMB, ordered 6 Handysize ECO-type bulk vessels (36.000 dwt) from Samjin Shipbuilding Industries Korea (Samjin) on very competitive conditions. The order includes two options each for two additional units. The delivery of the first four units is sc
Zvezda shipyard in Russia’s Far East has commenced the construction of an ice-breaker tanker for the Russia’s leading extraction and refinement company Rosneft. The ice-breaker tanker accounts for the first in a new series of “enhanced ice-class” tankers. Two vessels expected to have a capacity of o
On Dec. 9th 2011, China Shipping Industry (Jiangsu) Co, simultaneously named and delivered the 3rd and the 4th 57.000 DWT bulk carrier “Lan Hai He Xie” and “Lan Hai Sheng Hui” to Minsheng Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Lanhai Shipping Co., Ltd., which was another success after the naming
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured a US$291.6 million contract to build an accommodation semi-submersible rig with options for another two units from Prosafe, the world’s leading owner and operator of accommodation and service rigs. Scheduled for delivery in the second quarter
Maersk Supply Service has signed a contract with Chilean shipyard Asenav for two innovative new offshore vessels with an option for – up to – four additional vessels. The project value for the two vessels is close to USD 200 million. The vessels will replace existing vessels operating in the Canadia
JSC Severnaya Verf shipyard, affiliate of United Industrial Corporation (USC) belonging to ex-senator Sergei Pugachev, confirms corvette Boiky will be delivered to Russian Navy in 2012, reports RIA Novosti referring to the yard’s director general Andrei Fomichev. “Third corvette, Boiky, is ready to
Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei (W.D.R.) puts the second double-ended ferry into service on the Föhr-Amrum line in only 18 months. The Schleswig-Holstein follows the example of the Uthlande, commissioned in 2010, and will have a transport capacity of 1.200 passengers and 75 cars. This double-ended ferry
There is a good chance that the Shipping Ministry will put one of the proposed integrated port and shipyard project in Andhra Pradesh into final form. The state government has designated 5,000 acres at the following proposed sites: Nakkapally (in Visakhapatnam district), Ramaypatnam (Prakasam) and D
Approximately 50 feet film of oil floating and spreading Kadam Rasul from Kumira coast was spotted yesterday. The origin of the oil spill 10km long is still unknown. Boatmen, fishermen and people travelling between Sandwip and Chittagong believe that the ship-breaking industry is the one who should
At 10:36 AM Dec. 13, General Manager Mr.Wu Chengye of China Shipping Industry Co., Ltd. and Vice Director Mr.Fu Xuyin of The Rescue and Salvage Bureau of China Communication & Transportation Ministry jointly started the plasma cutting machine, which marks that the construction of the rescue vessels
DCNS, a French builder has initiated design work for the BPC-type force projection and command vessels ordered for the Russian Navy. Studies dedicated to modifying the vessel design to the specific requirements of the Russian Navy have been started by DCNS. The BPC contract was signed in June with R
