Crowley Maritime Corp. announces the recent launch the Ocean Wave, the first of four Ocean Class tugboats under construction at Bollinger Shipyards in Amelia, La. The Ocean Wave and Ocean Wind are classed as Dynamic Positioning 1 (DP1) tugboats and are twin-screw, steel-hulled tugs with an overall l
Overseas sales of Cathelco Seafresh reverse osmosis desalinators continue to gain momentum with the announcement of orders for two projects in Singapore. Cathelco Seafresh are supplying reverse osmosis desalinators for the Khannur, an LNG carrier owned by Golar LNG of Norway which is being converted
The United Shipbuilding Corporation, Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) and the Rosmorport federal unitary enterprise signed a contract to build four diesel icebreakers worth $640 million, RIA Novosti reports. Under the contract the vessels will be built at the Vyborg s
Recently, naming & delivery ceremony for 57.000 DWT B.C. was held at Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry. On 29th Nov. 2011, the vessel built for PD by Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry bearing Hull No.HT079 reached the condition of delivery. The vessel has been Class approved by GL and named “POR
Scandlines and P + S shipyards are celebrating another milestone on their way to putting their two new builds into service. The “Berlin” came into contact with the element water for the first time before some 150 guests from the world of politics and business at the P + S shipyard in Stralsund. At 1
On November 26, the pipe-laying vessel ZHONG YOU HAI 101 left the Port of Qingdao. The vessel is expected to arrive at the Shenzhen-Hong Kong waters in ten days and get ready for construction of the final part of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline. Due to geographical reasons, the access to clean ene
As recently as last May, Lloyd Werft converted the cruise liner MS “Artania” (ex “Artemis”) for Phoenix Reisen. Now the Bonn-based shipping company is sending two cruise ships to Bremerhaven at the same time for work designed to make them fit for winter cruises around the world. Lloyd Werft has just
Hyundai Heavy Industries, shipbuilder and an offshore facilities manufacturer, loaded the world’s largest offshore platform onto a barge on December 4. Hyundai Heavy jacked up the 23,600 ton topside of the North Rankin 2 Project ordered by Woodside Energy 26.5 m and installed it on the provisional t
Recently, the new RAnger 4600 Class Fireboat, Guan Xiao Er Hao was delivered to the Dongguan Fire Services Department, China by the builder Wang Tak Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Hong Kong. This latest in the RAnger series of fireboats was designed by Naval Architects Robert Allan Ltd. of Van
As part of its expanding research programme, Eco Marine Power Co. Ltd. of Fukuoka, Japan announced today that it has begun development of an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) based on technology it has developed for the Aquarius MRE SystemTM. This new vessel design concept is called the AquariusUSVTM. T
A Norwegian based shipping company chose Ecospeed to give lasting protection to their two newbuild general cargo vessels. The first vessel, m/v Golfstraum, was delivered in November. Her sister vessel m/v Rystraum is planned for a 2012 delivery. Both vessels are of the highest ice class and will be
Voith Turbo has expanded its presence on the Gulf Coast with the addition of a Marine Division Director based in Houston, which is a new position within the division. Kyle Durden will manage the regional operations for the Marine Division, focusing on sales, marketing, and customer service. Voith Tu
Huntington Ingalls Industries, company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has been awarded an advance procurement contract for work on the U.S. Navy’s third Zumwalt-class destroyer, DDG 1002. The contract is valued at $46 million, with the majority of the work taking place at the company’s Composite
Drydocks World has signed a Contract with Singapore based AET for two Tanker-to-Modular Capture Vessel (MCV) conversion projects. AET is converting these vessels as part of the Marine Well Containment Company’s (MWCC) well containment system. MWCC is a not-for-profit, stand-alone organization with 1
