GE’s Global Offshore and Marine business powers and propels ships, keeping them in position at the touch of button. The Korean naval, offshore and merchant, shipbuilding industry, the largest and most important in the world, has long since recognized the benefit that GE’s experience and technology c
Nupas-Cadmatic has signed a major deal with North American Shipbuilding (NAS), based in Larose (Louisiana). NAS is part of Edison Chouest Offshore. The deal was signed after an extensive trial period that challenged the software’s capabilities. The successful test showed that Nupas-Cadmatic provides
TTS Group ASA has, through its subsidiary TTS Marine AB in Gothenburg, signed a new contract for equipment for the Post Panamax car carriers market with a total value of approx. $13.5 million. With this contract TTS has further strengthened its leading position within the emerging Post Panamax PCTC
Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam (NL), part of Damen Shipyards Group, has been contracted again by Rederij Groen (NL) after delivering two chasers, the ‘Aquarius-G’ and the ‘Astra-G’, earlier this year. The new Seismic Research Support Vessels’ deliveries are planned in the third quarter of 2014, while
SSI took part in the OCEAN Tundra, a 100 tonne bollard pull ice class tug, project built by OCEAN Industries. It is the most powerful harbour tugboat ever built in Canada. SSI’s ShipConstructor CAD/CAM application was used to construct this vessel. SSI client Robert Allan Ltd. produced the design an
Gondan Shipyard, on Friday Oct. 18th, launched an advanced platform supply vessel named STRIL LUNA (Construction C456) which is being built for the Norwegian shipowner Simon Møkster. The vessel of Rolls Royce UT-Design™ type UT 776 WP is designed to satisfy demands of the offshore industry. STRIL LU
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has received the highest award at the 2013 Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Awards, which are organized by Nikkei Inc. The award was presented in recognition of the NYK Group’s use of an energy-saving air-lubrication system for vessels. The system was developed with O
One of the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) Access Competition winners Umoe Mandal has signed a contract to build their vessel – the Wave Craft. The new concept is extremely fast, which opens up shorter weather windows for maintenance, and the air cushion provides good stability for tr
Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) announced in its regulatory filing that the company has exercised an option to build two 82,000 dwt bulk carriers for a total consideration of KRW 55.9 billion (approx. USD 52.7 million). The company did not disclose the name of the shipyard that will build the vessels.
Stasiun Teknik, a newly created design office from Batam (Riau, Indonesia), has selected FORAN as their main design tool for marine consultancy. The engineers and designers have been previously involved in ship design from other companies, and their knowledge allows Stasiun Teknik to successfully ac
On October 15, COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard, a subsidiary of the COSCO Shipyard Group, and QE2 Holdings Ltd, entered into a contract for the refurbishment of the legendary cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 into a luxury five-star floating hotel. This is the first cruise ship conversion project COSCO Shipya
Petrobras’ P-55 Floating Production Unit (FPU), the largest and the first of this kind entirely built in Brazil, is on its way to the Roncador Field, Campos Basin, where it will be installed in a water depth of 1,790 metres. The column stabilized semi-submersible has a capacity of 180,000 bopd and 6
LEEVAC Shipyards, LLC recently delivered the first of two Z-Tech 2400 harbor tug boats, the Chloe K to Bay-Houston Towing Co. The Chloe K was constructed at LEEVAC Shipyard Jennings, LLC and was later transported, via one of LEEVAC’s own dry-docks, to LEEVAC Shipyard Lake Charles, LLC facility where
DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has entered into a five and a half year charter agreement starting March 2016 for a new build installation vessel. This key enabler will enhance DeepOcean’s current service offerings in the SURF (Subsea Umbilicals Risers & Flowlines) segment
