Fire Onboard MV ‘HANSA BRANDENBURG’ Shipmanagement Company Leonhardt & Blumberg Hamburg, Germany reports that on July 15 2013 a cargo container caught fire onboard MV “HANSA BRANDENBURG” container ship, during her voyage from Singapore to Durban about 200 nautical miles northeast of Mauritius. Manni
The keel, which is the first part of the boat to be built, was unveiled at a ceremony at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness by Defence Minister Philip Dunne yesterday, 18 July. It comes as MOD announces that the first 2 of the 7 Astute Class submarines, HMS Astute and HMS Ambush, are nearing
Bergen Group ASA has today entered into a Share Purchase Agreement for the group’s Shipbuilding Division with JSV Zaliv Shipyard, Ukraine, one of the leading hull construction shipyards in Central and Eastern Europe. For a purchase price of USD 18.2 million, Zaliv will acquire 51% of the shares in a
In 2012 and also this year, Carnival Cruises docked two of its globally operating fleet of luxury liners – “Queen Victoria” and “AIDAbella” – at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG. Now the traditional Bremerhaven facility has landed yet another attractive repair and conversion contract from the same group.
Tsuji Heavy Industries delivered the 6th vessel of NB series, named PRESEVERANCE to her Philippine-based owner Naess Dispatch Shipping on July 9th, 2013. Shipowner representative Mr. Eric Werwie and Mr. Vincent, Executive Director of Tsuji along with Mr. Wu Qingqing, Commercial Director of Tsuji, Mr
Vinashin held a delivery ceremony of the 53,000 dwt bulk carrier, named Thor Breeze at Ha Long shipyard, located in Quang Ninh Province, to Thoresen Co.Ltd, a ship-owner from Thailand, on July 4. The 109-meter long cargo ship, designed by Danish firm Carl Bro in accordance with the latest internatio
Jiangsu Hantong Group signed a shipbuilding contract with Japanese Shipowner Nisshin for the construction of two more 38,800DWT Handysize bulk carriers designed by SDARI . The vessels will be built at Hantong and delivered in the 2nd quarter of 2015. Currently, Hantong has 9 vessels of this same typ
In July, 2013 Cheoy Lee handed over the second in a series of five 50m Towing/Anchor Handling Tugs for Teras Offshore in Singapore. Departing Kowloon just ahead of ‘super typhoon’ Soulik under command of the company’s own crew, Teras Bethel sailed directly to Batam in Indonesia where it will enter s
June saw more enquiries than May, and more were converted into fixtures, but Drewry’s LNG freight index was stubbornly unchanged according to the latest LNG Insight. However, market sentiment remains positive as Cheniere took three vessels on mid-term charter, plus options. One vessel from Dynacom w
Gudrun sailed away from the yard in Haugesund on Wednesday afternoon, July 17. Now she is well on her way to the field where the jacket has been awaiting her since last summer. It is an approximately 24 hour long journey to the field location. “After two years of hard work, dedicated commitment and
Merseyside shipyard and engineering firm Cammell Laird has formally started the second five year cycle of its biggest single contract. Work began in June 2013 on the second period of Cammell Laird’s through-life support cluster contract to maintain nine of the 13 ships in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (
TGE Marine Gas Engineering has been awarded by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to deliver two complete LNG fuel systems. The systems will be installed on the new generation of cruise ships which Mitsubishi Heavy Industries currently builds for AIDA Cruises from Rostock/Germany belonging to the Carnival
Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS (KNOT) yesterday held a naming ceremony for two new state-of-the-art winterized shuttle tankers that are being built at Hyundai Heavy Industries. The ceremony was attended by KNOT president Trygve Seglem, NYK senior managing corporate officer Hitoshi Nagasawa, and NYK
The second of two multi-purpose vessels commissioned from Fincantieri by the General Command of the Port Authority Corp for the Italian Coast Guard was launched at Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) on July 15th. The vessel, due to be delivered by the end of this year, is the twin unit of the “Luigi D
