Scorpio Tankers Inc. announced on Friday that it has exercised options to construct two Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGC) in South Korea. The Company also took delivery of the twelfth vessel under its newbuilding program, STI Ville. VLGC Newbuildings The Company has exercised options it held with Hyund
The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) Secretariat today announced that Vancouver Shipyards will commence construction on the Joint Support Ships, followed by the Polar Icebreaker, under the NSPS non-combat package. It is expected that construction will begin in late 2016. The decisio
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division began flooding the dry dock where the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has been under construction since November 2009. With the push of a dozen buttons, ship’s sponsor Susan Ford Bales initiated the flow of more than 10
Costa Crociere Hires Dockwise Vanguard to Transport Concordia Wreck Dockwise, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded the contract to load and transport the Concordia wreck from Isola del Giglio onboard the Dockwise Vanguard. The contract was awarded
A keel laying ceremony for the third in–house designed new class Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), being built for the Indian Coast Guard, was held at Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) on Oct 11th 2013. Overall length of the vessels is 105 metres with a displacement of about 2400 tonnes. The OPV will be fitted wit
TOS to have conducted the second ship delivery for GSS Marine Services, a service provider for marine construction, engineering, repair and maintenance. “The new built Ellen K was shipped to Port Klang, Malaysia on a heavy lift vessel. After the vessel was unloaded TOS stepped in. Our ship delivery
Boustead Langkawi Shipyard, Malaysia recently delivered two 16m tugs based on the incredibly popular “Sally Mcloughlin” design, a “Macduff Forth 16″ Harbour Tug. The shipyard operations director Datuk Yahya Hashim said in a press release that BHIC had submitted bids for the building of more such ves
Caterpillar Marine Power Systems will highlight its wide array of U.S. EPA Tier 3/IMO II certified marine power solutions at the upcoming International Workboat Show held October 9th – 11th in New Orleans, Louisiana. On display at the Caterpillar booth this year will be the Cat® C32 ACERT™ EPA Tier
Qatari shipbuilder Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar (NDSQ) has received certification from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) for aligning its quality, environmental and safety management systems with internationally recognized standards. A certificate of approval for the ISO 9001:2008, ISO 1400
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder, today won a USD 850 million order to build four 150,000 m3 Moss type LNG carriers from Malaysian oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas). The contract also includes an option exercisable by the owner to order four additional same
On 30th September, following the successful seatrial of the first 39,000dwt B.Delta37, MV Wuchang, The China Navigation Company Pte Ltd (“CNCo”) confirmed an order for four additional 39,000dwt B.Delta37 handysize bulk carriers to be built at Chengxi Shipyard in China. This latest order brings the t
On October 9th, the 4010 high-speed ferry built by Afai Southern Shipyard (Panyu Guangzhou) Ltd for Damen Group, the Netherlands, launched successfully. This vessel adopts the design of a catamaran, featuring full aluminum structure, with the overall length of 39.9m, beam of 10.7m and draft of 2.55m
Scorpio Bulkers Inc. announced recently that it has entered into various agreements for the purchase of eleven Ultramax dry bulk vessels of 60,000 DWT to 64,000 DWT and four Kamsarmax dry bulk vessels of 81,000 DWT to 84,000 DWT from yards in Japan and China, as listed below: The total purchase pric
STX Pan Ocean, restructuring shipowner listed in Singapore and Korea, has axed $225m worth of newbudiling orders as part of its rehabilitation plan. The company announced today, in a regulatory filing, that the size of investment amount has been reduced from approximately $1 billion to $0.8 billion
