Defence Secretary Liam Fox and the country’s top military brass will this week assemble on the banks of the Clyde for a ceremony to mark the start of construction on Britain’s second giant aircraft carrier, the Prince of Wales. But there is a good chance that the 65,000- ton vessel, which is not due
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider and systems integrator, has been contracted by the STX Finland shipyard in Turku, Finland, to supply the main engines for a new multi-purpose cargo vessel. STX Finland is part of the international STX Europe Group. The ship is being built fo
Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, hosted a keel laying ceremony yesterday for the pre-commissioning unit Minnesota (SSN 783), a Virginia-class submarine named for the North Star State. Ellen Roughead, Minnesota native and wife of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. G
Ulstein Verft has sold the construction vessel Karianne of SX121 type design to Island Offshore. The vessel was completed on time from ULSTEIN in the fourth quarter of 2010. The vessel was originally contracted by the shipping company Marine Subsea, which could not to take delivery of her after comp
Transas Marine developed a new shipyard crane simulator under a request from BALENCIAGA Shipyard (Spain). The simulator will enable safe and cost-effective training of crane operators working with berth gantry crane of 160 t. BALENCIAGA Shipyard purchased this crane in 2006 in order to build large s
RENK AG, Augsburg, is known throughout the world as a supplier of sophisticated gear sets for navy ships. A RENK recipe for success: Professional support of shipyards and Navies with technical innovations in both the development and the search for optimiza-tion potential, accomplished with continuou
Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), will host a keel laying ceremony May 20, for the new submarine USS… (Navy) [mappress] Source: Navy, May 20, 2011
Wärtsilä Corporation opens a new workshop in Gdansk, Poland on 20 May 2011. Located close to Polish shipyards and ports, the workshop further strengthens Wärtsilä’s presence in the Baltic area and its position as the leading services provider for shipping customers visiting Poland. The new facilitie
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. today announced that a subsidiary, Diamond Offshore Drilling Limited, has exercised its option to build a third ultra-deepwater drillship with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. with delivery scheduled for the second quarter of 2014. Total cost, including commissionin
Bollinger Marine Fabricators, L.L.C., Amelia, La., a Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. company, has signed a contract for the new construction of a 55,000 barrel OPA’90 compliant tank barge with Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., Melville, NY. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. The announcement was m
JSC Shipyard Zaliv (Kerch, Crimea) and large Norwegian ship owning company Argali Holdings Ltd have signed the contract for construction of offshore drilling rigs supply vessel (project 832 CD). By words of Nikolay Kuzmenko, chief of Supervisory Board of shipyard Zaliv the peculiarity of this contra
On 17th May 2011, China Rongsheng heavy industries signed a contract with Golden Union, a Greek shipowner, for 2+2 Panamax bulk carriers, further enhancing the Company’s orders on hand. This is the second order placed by Golden Union in 2011, following 2 panamax bulk carriers placed earlier. Up to d
Hamburg’s Hapag-Lloyd has won a US$925 million loan with a banking syndicate made up of HSBC, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, KfW IPEX-Bank and UniCredit Bank… (TransportWeekly) [mappress] Source: TransportWeekly, May 19, 2011
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) is set to own the largest drydock in China as the Singapore-listed company, which holds a 60% stake… (Seatrade-Asia) [mappress] Source: Seatrade-Asia, May 19, 2011.
