The first warship built by BAE Systems for the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO) as part of Project Khareef for the design, build and delivery of three corvettes, has been formally handed over in a ceremony at HM Naval Base Portsmouth today. Employees and guests, including senior representatives from the Roy
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. has announced that Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC. has executed contracts for two 302 ’x 76 ’x26’ Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels. Eastern is currently under contract to construct four 292’ and six 302’ OSV’s for Hornbeck, now adding two MPSV’s each built to a design f
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded an oil and gas contract worth $20 million for providing power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by the Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum. The contra
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, on behalf of the Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans today announced funding of up to $488M to procure 18-21 new vessels for the Coast Guard Fleet. Minister MacKay made the announcement during the 2013 Mari-Tech Confe
APL, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines, has taken delivery of a newbuild 14,000-TEU container vessel from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries. The ship, named the MOL Quality, first named the APL Advance, comes as the fourth of ten 14,000-TEU vessels and has been chartered to Mitsui OSK Li
In April TGE Marine Gas Engineering signed a contract with Dalian Inteh Group for the design and supply of the gas handling system as well as cargo tank material package for a 28,000 cbm LNG-carrier which came into effect in mid-June. The ship shall be built at COSCO Dalian Shipyard and is scheduled
Wallenius Lines and Tianjin Xingang Shipyard in China have finalized and signed a contract to build two Post Panamax vessels for delivery in 2015 and 2016. “We believe in a strong market for our segment of shipping, and are pleased to have concluded the negotiations with Tianjin Xingang Shipyard in
The Danish company Insatech A/S has developed the Smart Sulphur Switch S3 system (S3) that minimizes shipping companies’ additional costs as a result of the requirements stipulated in MARPOL Annex VI concerning sulphur emissions in Emission Control Areas (ECAs) in North America, the Caribbean, the B
U.S. Navy and Austal USA held a keel laying ceremony for the future USS Montgomery, the Navy’s eighth littoral combat ship (LCS), June 25, in Mobile, Ala. The keel-laying ceremony recognizes the first joining together of a ship’s components. While modern shipbuilding processes allow fabrication of i
Inocean has been awarded the job to modify container/refrigerated cargo vessels, Messina Strait and Magellan Strait, for the Dutch company, Seatrade Groningen B.V. The target is to modify existing ships in order to incorporate vessels inline with Seatrade chartering standard. The task includes ensur
Chengxi Shipyard delivered the fourth 35,500 DWT Trillium Class self-unloading laker to the Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) on June 20. The SUL vessel, named “Baie Comeau”, measures a Seaway maximum 225.6 by 23.8 metres, features custom hull design for increased cargo lift, EPA Tier II compliant main e
Horizon Lines, Inc. one of the nation’s leading domestic ocean shipping companies, announced that it plans to convert the power plants on two of its steam turbine cargo vessels to modern diesel engines capable of burning conventional liquid fuels or liquefied natural gas (LNG). “We are viewing this
The christening ceremony of Wind Force II, a wind farm catamaran built by Baltic Workboats, occurred end of May 2013 in Norddeich, the homeport of FRISIA Offshore (FO) vessels in Northern-Germany. Wind Force II is a sistership of FO-s Wind Force I and also the fifth vessel within the FO fleet. Altho
The Supacat Multi-purpose Vessel 24 (SMV24), which will transform support operations in today’s growing offshore wind farm and maritime engineering sectors, receives its official launch at Seawork International. The SMV24 is a new concept in offshore support vessels, designed to provide operators wi
