The 145,000 gt cruise ship Norwegian BREAKAWAY, whose construction has taken merely 17 months, has left MEYER WERFT’s covered building dock II on Tuesday, 26 February 2013. The float-out of the ship, which is built for the US cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line, commenced around 7 a.m. Following t
The keel of the offshore patrol vessel being built for the Finnish Border Guard was laid, on Monday 25 February 2013, at STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard. The event was witnessed by representatives of STX Finland, Finnish Border Guard, classification society and media. Scheduled for delivery in Novem
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a further order from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd, in China, for its variable frequency drive (VFD) electric cranes. The 32 MacGregor electric cranes have been specified for eight more 3,900 TEU container vessels being built at the yard for Singapore-b
The management of WINS announced it has taken delivery of “WM Natuna”, the company’s latest Platform Supply Vessel (PSV). This latest vessel, together with their other two PSVs, WM Massar and WM Sulawesi are the only three Indonesian flagged PSVs in the 3500 dwt class, thereby strengthening their ma
Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has secured three contracts worth a combined US$300 million from repeat customers. The contracts are for the construction of a KFELS B Class jackup rig from Star Drilling Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based com
Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced yesterday that Vice President of LNG Sales, Tor-Ivar Guttulsrod, will address the 2nd Annual LNG Global Congress (LNGgc) Asia Pacific 2013 in Singapore on March 06, 2013. Mr. Guttulsrod’s presentation will be spe
The month of January 2013 has again been a very busy month for A&P NE On the Tyne there have been a number of dockings / undocking’s:- Longstone (Andrew Weir Shipping) – undocked early January after an intensive 12 day programme overhauling the stern ramp, vent fans and sea valves. The ship sailed a
The innovation house, Supacat, has awarded the build contract to Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd for a new concept offshore support vessel, the Supacat Multi-purpose Vessel 24. The first boat will be built at Mustang Marine’s Pembroke Dock facility and is scheduled for launch in August this year. To deve
A series of vessels designed to operate in complete safety at depths of 3000 meters. The first two sisterships already operate in West Africa. Resource exploration is going into increasingly deep waters and the new milestone for oil and gas marine industry operations is now at 2,500 to 3,000 meters.
The board of directors of China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Limited denies recent news articles reporting that Company is planning a private placement of new shares in the Company to one or a group of new investors to raise US$200 million. The Company would like to inform shareholders
Damen Shipyards Group and ShipConstructor representative CADMatch will speak about challenges and solutions involving Concurrent Engineering at the CADMatch Maritime Days Conference, March 20, 2013. Concurrent Engineering is critical due to tight deadlines and rising customer expectations; engineeri
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its subsidiaries – Keppel FELS Brasil S.A. (Keppel FELS Brasil) and Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) – have secured two contracts worth S$200 million from repeat customers. Keppel FELS Brasil’s contract is with MODEC and Toyo Offshore Productio
Strategic Marine, the leading specialist shipbuilder operating in Singapore and Vietnam, today delivered the Njord Curlew, a high-grade crew transfer and service vessel for Njord Offshore, the UK fleet operator specialising in supply services for the growing offshore windfarm sector. Today’s deliver
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been contracted by the Korean yard STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, to supply exhaust gas cleaning systems for four new Container Ro/Ro (ConRo) vessels being built for Ignazio Messina & Co, the Italy based ship owner and operat
