Today early in the morning, the mighty lift gate of ship assembly hall 290 at the Volkswerft shipyard in Stralsund (Germany) opened for the roll-out of the first of two RoRo special ships for the Danish shipping company DFDS. The construction phase “ship hull assembly” of the new vessel with the shi
DSME’s affiliate Daewoo-Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI) from Romania has won a contract to build four LR2 product carriers for Greek-based Eastern Mediterranean Maritime. As TradeWinds reports, Thanassis Martinos of Eastern Mediterranean Maritime confirmed the deal for the four vessels with deliver
Following a six-year acquisition program, the Government of the Bahamas has announced the signing of a Letter of Intent to acquire 9 vessels for the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. The contract has been placed with Damen Shipyards Group, headquartered in Gorinchem, the Netherlands. In announcing the co
Transocean Ltd. announced yesterday that its newbuild, ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepwater Asgard, was awarded a three-year contract with a major integrated international oil company for work offshore Indonesia at a dayrate of $600,000. The contract is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2
A high precision Enerpac SyncHoist system has been successfully deployed by heavy lift and transport specialists Universal Cranes to ensure optimum accuracy and safety in the hoisting and positioning of key components of one of the largest ships ever built for the Royal Australian Navy. The Enerpac
Ever Liven, the tenth in a series of L-type containership to be operated by Evergreen Line, was christened by S.S. Lin, the Evergreen Group’s First Vice Group Chairman, at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Korea yesterday. The official rope-cutting of the new 8,452-TEU vessel was performed by
Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology in the Netherlands has received the order to supply and install the electrical installations on four newly built multipurpose heavy lift vessels. The Groningen yard Shipkits, part of the Centraal Steel group, is building the vessels for the Daniel Hartman shipping comp
The Wilson Sons Group inaugurated the second Wilson Sons Shipyards unit in Guarujá (SP, Brazil) on April 18th. As a result of a US$ 60 million investment, the shipyard, which builds tugboats and offshore support vessels, is expected to double its capacity. The shipyard, which has been named Guarujá
Multraship, a towage and salvage specialist has continued its fleet renewal programme with confirmation that it has bought two new Damen ASD 2810-type tugs with state-of-the-art FiFi 1 firefighting capabilities. The tugs, to be named Multratug 26 and Multratug 27, are building in Romania for deliver
In efforts to extend ship life, increase capability and assure critical operations, the U.S. Navy is refitting its USS Mount Whitney Blue Ridge class command ship. GE’s Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) has signed a contract worth US$14 million if all options are exercised with Military Sealift C
Noble Corporation today announced that the Company has entered into two three-year term drilling contracts with Plains Exploration & Production Company for the Noble Sam Croft and the Noble Tom Madden, two of Noble’s new ultra-deepwater drillships currently under construction at the Hyundai Heavy In
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited today announced that subsidiaries of the Company ’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd have made the following deliveries: COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered a bulk carrier of 57.000 DWT, named OCEAN LOVE, to its Euro
Herbert Koelman has been announced as the winner of the GL COMPIT Award 2013. The Dutch computer aided design expert was honoured for his paper’s contribution to the promotion of innovative approaches in ship design, at the COMPIT Conference which took place from 15 to 17 April in Cortona, Italy. Th
This year’s International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (COMPIT) covered a broad spectrum of the latest developments in ship design and shipbuilding, IT trends and marine robot technology. Organised by Germanischer Lloyd (GL), the conference took place for the
