Acceptance certificates of two Project 10412 patrol ships (serial numbers 044 and 045) built for Vietnamese Navy were signed on Oct 20 at Almaz Shipbuilding Firm. These are third and fourth hulls of Project 10410 Svetlyak export version. First two ships were delivered to Vietnam in 2002. Both ships
Courage Marine has grabbed a 57,000 dwt supramax bulk carrier currently under construction at a Chinese yard for $26.6m… (Seatrade-Asia) [mappress] Source: Seatrade-Asia, October 25, 2011
On Oct.18th the steel cutting ceremony for 320,000 DWT Crude Oil Tanker J0132, which will be built by Zhongji Shipyard as a subsidiary company of Jinhai Heavy Industry, was held at cutting and processing site in joint workshop. Vice President of Zhongji Shipyard Mr. Xia Zhen and Senior Surveyor from
Voith has received an order for a number of bow thrusters and retractable stern thrusters from Koninklijke De Vries, a division of Feadship. The bow and stern thrusters are for various new buildings which are being built at their yards in Aalsmeer and Makkum. Koninklijke De Vries has ordered a total
After Chinese National Day, SF Ship Engineering Co., Ltd has realized three important nodes—two vessels delivered and one vessel launched. 15#57000DWT BC, built for German CONTI Company, was named & delivered at No.2 quay of shipyard. This vessel is 189.99m in LOA, 185.00m in LPP, 32.26m in moulded
On 21 October at the slip of PJSC Kherson shipyard keel laying of the first product tanker of a series, project RST27, for SVL group of companies, Malta, took place. The ship design has been developed by the Marine Engineering Bureau (Odessa). Tanker is designed for mixed (river-sea) carriage of bul
China Shipping Development Company (CSDC) has splashed RMB700m ($110m) to buy four bulk carriers of 45,000 dwt each from Chinese shipyards… (Seatrade-Asia) [mappress] Source: Seatrade-Asia, October 25, 2011
Miclyn Express Offshore (“MIO”) announces that it has entered into an agreement to purchase four new Crew/Utility Vessels from a Singaporean shipyard. Two vessels will be delivered in December 2011, with the remaining two to be delivered in April 2012. These vessels are targeted for deployment in th
A Lockheed Martin -led industry team completed Builder’s Sea Trials for Fort Worth, the nation’s third littoral combat ship. The trials – a coordinated effort between the U.S. Navy and the Lockheed Martin team including Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) – were conducted in the waters of Green Bay a
After a mere 17 weeks, Holland Shipyards has delivered offshore accommodation vessel “Vivaldi” to her owner Wagenborg Offshore BV. During a short ceremony, held on Holland Shipyards’ premises, an approximate 400 people witnessed the delivery from Holland Shipyards BV, represented by Mr. Cor Hoogendo
On Thursday 20 October, the second of four Holland Class Oceangoing Patrol Vessels, “Zeeland” built by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding for the Royal Netherlands Navy, was transferred to the Defence Materiel Organization of the Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands. Immediately after delivery, the
Groningen Shipyard launched successfully the first vessel, mv LADY ANNA, for Delfzijl based Wijnne Barends. The vessel was designed and engineered by Groot Ship Design in close cooperation with shipyard and owner. In the design phase colleague designer Conoship assisted, after the design the complet
The fourth tanker of Armada type built by Besiktas Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, named Gobustan, has sailed from the Shipyard on October 23, 2011. The tanker proceeds for loading 6000 metric tons sunflower seed oil from Rostov to one port of Mediterranean sea. Besiktas Shipyard is one of the best esta
Wärtsilä will supply two Finnish icebreakers with catalytic converters designed to significantly reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, which are harmful to the environment and to human health. The ships will also be converted to enable the use of Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel fuel. Wärtsilä, the marine in
