At Uljanik shipyard’s slipway No.1, on 25th November 2011, the ceremony of laying of two keels for Yards 498 and 499 was successfully organized. Those keels will eventually become ships for the transportation of 54 wagons on the Caspian Sea and which are to be constructed by Uljanik for the Azerbaij
The hull for yno 294 at Ulstein Verft, a platform supply vessel of design type ULSTEIN PX121 for Blue Ship Invest, was launched by Zaliv shipyard in Ukraine on 30. November. “This hull is hull number 500 from Zaliv, and this special occasion was celebrated with a great many invited persons”, comment
In the network of the environmental program the enterprise is planning to construct 22 vessels until the year of 2015 at the cost of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development raised funds. The investments will sum up to 155 million dollars, said Sergey Ilyashenko, head of FSUE “Rosmorport” Di
Caterpillar Marine Power Systems has been selected to provide four Cat 3516C Diesel Electric Propulsion (DEP) generator sets for the SV-310 multi-purpose offshore construction and supply vessel (MPSV) for Harvey Gulf International. Each 3516C DEP generator set will provide 2250 ekw @ 1800 rpm of pow
Precious Shipping Ltd, dry cargo ship-owner, announces that it has cancelled the order of a new supramax vessel from Taizhou Sanfu Shipyard. Seatrade Asia reported that Precious Lands Limited said that the company’s subsidiary, which had signed the acquisition agreement, has cancelled the purchase o
Two 82.000 DWT Bulk Carrier Vessels built by Sainty Shipbuilding （Yangzhou）in their newly completed dock were successfully launched on 25th November 2011. The vessels built for Singapore client have Loa 229 m, breadth 32.26 m, depth 20.05 m, maximum draught 12.20m and service speed at 14.10knots, th
France begins construction of the first Mistral-class assault landing ship for Russian Navy, advance has been obtained, reported RIA Novosti referring to a spokesman for the French state-led defense company DCNS. The EUR 1.2-bln contract for construction of two French Mistral-class helicopter carrie
Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Limited and COSL Drilling Europe yesterday signed the contract for deepwater semi-submersible platform, the COSLPROSPECTOR, in Beijing. The COSLPROSPECTOR is a DP3 vessel with an operating depth of 1,500 metres, a drilling depth of 7,600 metres and a designed operating t
Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) to initiate a project specific front-end engineering design (FEED) of an LNG FPSO solution for the Tamar gas field offshore Israel. This agreement follows the recent announcement of the agr
Winland Ocean Shipping Corp, a global shipping Company, today took delivery of the company’s first new 57,000 DWT bulk carrier named “Fon Tai” . The Chairman and management executives of the Company attended the ship christening ceremony at the shipyard. “Fon Tai” was constructed by Jiangsu New Hant
On 30 November 2011, Van Oord performed the naming ceremony for its new Damen Multi Cat 3213 ‘Oceanus’. The Oceanus is the biggest Multi Cat ever built by Damen Shipyards and the first of its type. A sister vessel ‘Cronus’ is to be delivered April 2012, one month before the contractual delivery date
In Q1 2013 Fugro will take delivery of a new-built vessel, M/V Fugro Pioneer, the first of Fugro’s dedicated Offshore Survey Costal Vessel series. Featured on Stand 11121 at EWEA Offshore Amsterdam, the new vessel will operate in North-West European waters. Designed to Fugro specifications and fitte
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company and China’s Bestway Engineering, have today unveiled a range of energy efficient ship designs which have been produced to meet the future requirements of the global merchant shipping industry. The new highly efficient ship designs have been produced usin
With a splash of champagne on steel, NOL Group welcomed the future of global trade at Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Ulsan docks today. The Singapore-based shipping and logistics giant christened the 350-meter APL Chongqing and prepared to launch a sister ship the APL Gwangyang, tomorrow. At 10,000-TEUs
