Two sizes of MacGregor’s offshore cranes have each been specified for Marine Assets Corporation’s new series of four accommodation support vessels being built at Fujian Mawei shipyard in China. MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a contract that will see eight cranes fitted on board a new serie
On June 19, 2013, China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) signed agreements for the construction of 15 vessels. The 15 vessels, including one output enhancement vessel, four 6,000HP platform supply vessels (PSVs), two 9,000HP PSVs, two 8,000HP anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTS vessels), four 1
Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) announced that the company has taken delivery of a new PSV addition to their offshore fleet. VOS Purpose, a platform-supply vessel (PSV), is the second of two 75-mtr PSVs built at Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. The vessel was delivered on Friday 21 June 2013, in Ch
Aker Solutions ASA and Statoil ASA have cancelled a contract for delivery of a semi-submersible rig capable of year-round well-intervention services on the Norwegian continental shelf. The companies in April 2012 agreed Aker Solutions would build the so-called Category B (Cat B) rig and use it to pr
MOL Comfort Suffers Damage During Trip to Jeddah Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. informed that the MOL-operated containership MOL Comfort suffered a crack amidships and ingressed water in the hold while under way from Singapore to Jeddah on the Indian Ocean on June 17, 2013 due to inclement weather. MOL C
UNIVERSAL AFRICA LINES LTD (UAL) has named its new build 8,600dwt cargo ship MV UAL Texas at a festive event at the Cruise Terminal Rotterdam. Shipyard Bodewes launched the MV UAL Texas in May in the Netherlands. As well as the ship naming, the event also celebrated the new name for UAL’s global age
The Board of directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced that COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned subsidiary, COSCO Shipyard Group Co. Ltd., has secured contracts from a Singapore entity for the conversion of two semi-completed hulls to high- e
Marco Polo Marine Ltd , has via its 49.6%-owned subsidiary, PT Pelayaran Nasional Buana Bina Raya TBK, acquired and taken delivery of a newly built 9,000 BHP Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel from a third party shipbuilder. The acquisition, which is in line with the group’s expansion plans to
Gudrun is almost ready for her journey into the North Sea. Today the platform deck was moved to the barge at the yard in Haugesund. The operation of moving the enormous structure started in the morning of June 18. It took the entire day. This afternoon a relieved and satisfied Aibel project director
Dorian/Seacor‘s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers are to benefit from the latest reliquefaction plant development from Babcock’s LGE Process, following a contract signed last month (May) for the innovative vent gas cooler enhancement to be fitted on two new very large gas carriers (VLGCs) being
USS Enterprise (CVN 65) made her final voyage to the Newport News Shipyard June 20. The ship, nearly six months into her dismantling process, was moved by tugboat on the James River to Newport News Shipyard with almost 150 Newport News Shipbuilding and Huntington Ingalls Industries shipbuilders aboa
Today at Saint-Petersburg International Economic Forum Russia’s largest shipping company OAO Sovcomflot has signed an agreement with OAO United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) on the reservation of construction slots for the placement of orders to build further gas carriers of the Velikiy Novgorod se
The Panama Canal has increased its tugboat fleet with the arrival of the first two of 14 tugboats that will improve the waterway’s resources to offer a safer and more efficient service to the global shipping industry. These tugboats will strengthen the Canal’s capacity for the operation of the Third
TANJUNG PIAI 1, the first Malaysia built diesel electric PSV with design from Focal Marine & Offshore, was successfully delivered by Muhibbah Marine Engineering on 19 Jun 2013 to owner Icon Offshore. The PSV will go straight for 1+1 year contract in offshore Malaysia. The vessel was built in 20 mont
