In June, components weighing up to 420 tonnes each for Liebherr’s new heavy lift offshore crane CAL 45000-1200 Litronic® were loaded from Liebherr MCCtec Rostock GmbH onto two ships in the port of Rostock. These components were subsequently transported to the Crist shipyard in the Polish town of Gdy
TTS has supplied an electric operated stern ramp/door on the specialized Ro-Ro vessel “m/s Sigrid” for the Swedish shipowner SKB. In late June this year Damen Shipyards, Gorinchem, in the Netherlands and its Galati yard in Romania will deliver their newbuilding H1226, to its owner SKB, Swedish Nucle
Kongsberg Maritime has completed the installation and commissioning of an integrated bridge and automation solution during a large-scale retrofit of the Saipem 7000, an advanced Semi-submersible crane and pipelaying (J-lay) DP3 vessel. The project to equip Saipem 7000 with the latest advanced offsho
Boskalis announces that Dockwise safely and successfully offloaded the 23,000 ton Lucius spar last week for the Lucius deepwater oil and natural gas project located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Lucius truss spar, measuring 184 meters (605 feet) long and 34 meters (110 feet) in diameter, was loaded ont
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project (the Project) cut first steel yesterday for the hull of its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility in Okpo, Korea. With fabrication of the hull underway, work on all of the Project’s major offshore facilities has commenced. The FPSO is bein
Almi Tankers S.A. announced that on June 14th, 2013, the first VLCC of its newbuilding project, the M/T Hydra Voyager, was delivered to her owners at DSME’s Okpo Shipyard, and was subsequently delivered to her long term charterers, Chevron. This 319,000 DWT tanker is the first of two VLCCs from Almi
Australian ferry builder Incat Tasmania’s world first high speed dual-fuel vehicle and passenger ferry is now officially fast with a lightship speed of 58.1 knots – (107.6 kilometres an hour) and a thrill for the designers of the 99 metre high speed vessel Francisco (Incat hull 069). This is certain
Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) of Vancouver, Canada announced that long-time customer NAVIS, of Iceland, continue to upgrade their Autohydro Pro hydrostatics & stability software as demand rises for their exceptional naval architecture work. NAVIS has been in charge of the design of various kind
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s solutions and services provider, has been awarded the contract by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., of Panama City, Florida to supply an integrated solution for a new multipurpose support vessel (MPSV) for Harvey Gulf International Marine, LLC (HGIM) of New Orleans. T
The final section of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of two new aircraft carriers being built for the UK Royal Navy, has left BAE Systems’ shipyard at Scotstoun today to embark on a 600 mile journey to Rosyth. The Aft Island, also known as Upper Block 14, is the air traffic control tower of the [&hel
The first vessel of the Triple-E series, owned by Maersk Line, was named on Friday, June 14, in a ceremony at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, who is the chairman of the Moller Foundation, had the honour of naming the first
Gunvor Ulstein, CEO of Ulstein Group, was awarded Tekna’s Gold Medal on 15 June. The Medal is given as an honour and encouragement to Norwegian managers or companies for outstanding efforts in creating new opportunities for Norwegian technologists, both in Norway and internationally. The Medal was l
Sembcorp Marine announced the appointment of Mr Wong Teck Cheong as the Managing Director of PPL Shipyard with effect from 14 June 2013, following the completion of Service Agreement by Mr Douglas Tan Ah Hwa on the same date. Mr Wong, 51 years old, has served as the General Manager for Special Const
Turbine Transfers announced that its most advanced vessel, the BMT Nigel Gee (BMT) designed 26m XSS Cymyran Bay will be on display at Seawork later this month. This is another example of Turbine Transfers’ ongoing investment and commitment to maintaining its position as the premier Windfarm Support
