The camouflage painting of USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) was completed at Naval Base San Diego graving dock June 28. Workers applied a paint scheme that differs from that used on Fort Worth’s sister ship USS Freedom (LCS 1). Freedom was painted earlier this year using a pattern based on a World War II-era
The second in a series of multipurpose salvage vessels, the “SPASATEL KAVDEJKIN” set off on builder’s sea trials, on June 28th. The vessel of project MPSV07, developed by Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb, JSC, is being built at Nevsky Shipyard. The vessel is intended for Baltic BASU, part of the
MAN Diesel & Turbo unveiled ME-LGI concept signals impending, further expansion of MAN B&W dual-fuel portfolio. Ole Grøne, Senior Vice President – Low Speed Promotion & Sales – MAN Diesel & Turbo, said: “We can really see the momentum towards dual-fuel operation building now. The ME-GI engine we int
Western Baltija Shipbuilding has delivered multipurpose vessel “EVA“ to the client “EVA Maritime OÜ”. The multipurpose vessel “EVA” is the first vessel of this type built by Western Baltija Shipbuilding. Ship length – 89,9 m, breadth – 14,5 m, draft – 5,63 m, speed – 11,4 knots, deadweight – 4600 t.
Protacon, a company based in Finland, has closed a contract with Viking Supply Ships to modernize a Swedish icebreaker Ymer. Last year Protacon modernized the Finnish icebreaker flagship, Urho. The deal provides a stronger foothold as a supplier of high power electrical drives to Protacon, currently
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced recently that the company has received a $745 million cost-plus-incentive fee contract for the inactivation of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). The work will be done at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division. The ship was towed from Naval
Sembcorp Marine’s PPL Shipyard has secured additional orders for two turnkey contracts worth a combined value of US$417 million from repeat customer Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro, S.A.P.I. de C.V. for the construction of two units of jack-up rigs. Scheduled for delivery at end July 2
Yesterday Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) began construction at its Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works of the first of two new generation cruise ships for AIDA Cruises, the German cruise company part of Costa Group, Europe’s largest cruise company member of Carnival Corporation & plc. The t
Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) returned the Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) “TI Europe”, presently the largest vessel in the world, to its owners EURONAV (Belgium) after successfully completing a full technical survey and service. Jos Goris, Managing Director of Damen Shiprepair Brest, says: “We w
The first deliveries from Damen Shipyards Group’s extensive new offshore portfolio open the way to the realisation of the global group’s strategic ambition to challenge comfortable preconceptions on how best to source high performance ships in this specialised market. The first of six Damen PSV 3300
Sea Star Line, LLC recently took delivery of 150 new 40’ refrigerated containers in year two of a five year equipment replacement plan. The replacement plan aims to reduce the average age of the entire Sea Star Line refrigerated container fleet to less than 3 years. “Sea Star recognizes the needs of
The platform supply vessel ‘Blue Guardian’ was delivered from Ulstein to Blue Ship Invest on 28 June 2013. The vessel is contracted to work in the North Sea. ‘Blue Guardian’ is the fifth in a series of six platform supply vessels (PSV) of the PX121 design from Ulstein Verft, and the vessel is under
TTS Group ASA, through its subsidiary TTS Marine AB, has signed two contracts in South Korea worth approximately 72 MNOK – one with Hyundai Heavy Industries and the other with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. is delivery of internal and e
The Navy and Lockheed Martin, with Marinette Marine Corp., held a keel-laying ceremony for the future USS Little Rock, the Navy’s ninth littoral combat ship (LCS), June 27, in Marinette, Wis. The keel-laying ceremony recognizes the first joining together of a ship’s components. While modern shipbuil
