Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) and IHI Corporation (IHI) agreed on the joint development of LNG fuel tank and supply system for LNG fueled container vessels for United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) headquartered in Dubai, UAE. These vessels are the UASC’s current newbuilding order of five 14,0
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. announced yesterday the delivery of the Atwood Advantage from the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME) shipyard in South Korea. The Atwood Advantage has departed the DSME shipyard and commenced its drilling services contract with Noble Energy, Inc. Followin
Shipyard De Hoop has won the award to design, build and deliver 10 new Platform Supply Vessels (PSV) to Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). The vessels of dimensions 65 x 15.8 metres will boast a true “design of the future”, meeting the highest international class notations within both operation
Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited yesterday reported the strategic partnership with Statoil, an international energy company headquartered in Stavanger Norway for the construction and chartering of five to nine purpose built Daewoo Aframax crude tankers with a contract term of five to twelve years in
Raytheon Company (RTN) has been awarded $75 million to complete remaining hardware and electronics for DDG 1000 and 1001, the first two ships of the Zumwalt-class of multimission destroyers. The award reflects exercised options under a previously awarded U.S. Navy contract. Raytheon’s progress on th
Japan’s Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Award, one of the highest awards in the eco-services category, was presented jointly to Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, the Monohakobi Technology Institute, and Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. on December 12, in recognition of the NYK Group’s u
The first of a total of four 125 Class frigates for the German Navy was today christened “Baden-Württemberg” at a ceremony at the Hamburg site of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems – a company of ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions. This is an important milestone in the construction program for the F125 Clas
Heerema Fabrication Group’s Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands yesterday celebrated the ceremonial first cut steel of the Gina Krog jacket, the largest launch jacket ever built at HFG for client Statoil Petroleum AS and destined for the Gina Krog field development in the central part of the North Se
Drydocks World and Maritime World, the internationally renowned provider of maritime and offshore services to the shipping, oil, gas and energy sectors, signed a MoU with MARS Fundusz Inwestycyjny Zamkniety (MARS Closed-End Investment Fund), a Warsaw, Poland based company, that manages multiple comp
Arctech launched the icebreaking multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel for the Russian Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport and to be operated by the FGI Gosmorspassluzhba (Russian Marine Emergency Rescue Service) on 12 December 2013 at Helsinki Shipyard. Baltika will be used in icebreaking,
Leading classification society has released its second version of the Guidelines for Gas Fuelled Ships. This updated version reflects the requirements for the design of natural gas fuelled ships based on the outcome of discussions held at IMO regarding the International Code of Safety for ships usin
The new RAstar 3200 tug SL Jamba was recently delivered to its owners Smit Lamnalco. Constructed at Cheoy Lee Shipyards Ltd., she will soon be joined by three more sister tugs for the same owner. These powerful tugs will assist berthing and unberthing of LNG carriers at new export facilities being d
Naval design and engineering company BMT Defence Services Ltd today announced that it has applied a software package created by leading maritime software house NAPA during the design process for the new logistics and support vessel (LSV) ordered by the Norwegian Defense Logistics Organisation (NDLO)
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, will provide a full propulsion package for a new passenger ferry being built for the Germany based Reederei Cassen Eils GmbH. The contract was signed in October 2013 with Fr. Fassmer GmbH, the shipyard responsible for the vesse
