Voith currently is the only manufacturer world-wide to produce thrusters with a power of 1 500 kW based on permanent magnet synchronous machine technology (RIM drives). Recent orders for offshore applications, passenger vessels and yachts underline Voith’s position as global market leader for these
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. announced today the execution of definitive contracts for the construction of sixteen high-specification offshore supply vessels (“OSV”), in connection with its latest newbuild construction program announced on November 7, 2011. This is the Company’s eighth newbuild
Dockwise’s new heavy lift vessel, the Dockwise Vanguard, will be able to lift and transport units of up to 110,000 tonnes. The maximum capacity of an existing vessel is 75,000 tonnes. With its width of nearly 80 metres and length of 275 metres, this is the first semisubmersible heavy lift vessel to
14 years after the disaster with the Kursk submarine in the Barents Sea, the Russian navy will finally get a modern rescue ship… (BarentsObserver) [mappress] Source: BarentsObserver, November 17, 2011
Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, has been awarded a contract with Kleven Maritime (Myklebust), Sanco Shipping and Dolphin Geophysical, for the complete back-deck handling system on Sanco Shipping’s new (up to) 16 streamers seismic vessel built to be operated by Dolphin Geophysical
The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with world-renowned Italian high-tech shipbuilders Rodriguez Cantieri Navalli, controlled by the Italian Immsi Group (Rodriquez), to establish a marine boat manufacturing industry in the Kingdom. The agreem
CSSC Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuilding and Basic Offshore of Singapore signed on November 9th 2011 a newbuilding contract for eight platform support vessels. Eight new PSVs will be of Havyard 832 L SE design. Havyard 832 L SE is based on the Havyard 832 CD design and has been further developed in accor
The world’s fourth largest shipbuilder, STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, announced today that it had received a $310 million order to construct two container ships from an unnamed European company. The Company plans to deliver the container vessels by 2015, Reuters reported. STX Offshore & Shipbuilding
Today, Wednesday 16 November 2011, Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) took delivery of VOS Artemis from the Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. VOS Artemis is an “A class” anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel. She is the fourth in a series of six vessels being built for Vroon at this yard, with the r
Vroon Shipping announced that today, Wednesday 16 November 2011, company took delivery of Iver Blessing, a 6,187-ton asphalt/oil/chemical tanker. The vessel was constructed at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Ulsan, South Korea and is the last in a series of four vessels to have been built at the Dockyard
Havyard Group AS has signed a contract with the Indian shipping company Global Offshore Ltd for delivery of a PSV vessel, including an option for one further vessel. The Indian shipping company, known as Garware Offshore until just recently, has changed its name due to an expansion from only operati
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced today that the LR1 Product Tanker Nave Andromeda of 75,000 dwt was delivered from a South Korean shipyard and immediately began a 3-year charter-out with two one-year options at a net rate of $11,850 for the
Keppel Singmarine, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has secured two contracts from Indonesian customers worth a total of about S$47 million. The first contract is for a Coal Transshipment Barge for repeat customer PT Indo Straits Tbk, through its subsidiary company
Cochin Shipyard Limited delivered a 120T Bollard pull Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS), “SCI Pawan”, bearing the Hull No. BY-77, to M/s. Shipping Corporation of India, Mumbai (SCI). This is the first of the new series of 4 Nos of 120T Bollard pull AHTS being built by CSL for M/s. Shipping
