MV Industrial More was launched successfully, on Friday January 25th, at Peters Shipyards in Kampen, the Netherlands. The Industrial More is the fifth in a series of 10,000 DWT cargo ships built under the project name of Sole, denoting the largest vessels ever made at the Kampen yard. The Momentum S
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has announced that an offshore vessel, currently under construction for Simon Møkster Shipping, will be the first in the world to feature the new highly innovative Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge solution – representing a step change in vessel operation. As
The first of totally twelve platform supply vessels of ULSTEIN’s PX105 design, ‘Sea Falcon’, was delivered on 5 February 2013 from Zhejiang to Seatankers Group. ULSTEIN delivers twelve design and equipment packages to Sinopacific’s Zhejiang yard in Ningbo, China, where all the vessels for Seatankers
HHI-EMD, the engine and machinery division of Hyundai Heavy Industries, has reported that the world’s first MAN B&W 7G80ME-C9.2 passed its official shop test on 16 January 2013 in Korea. The MAN Diesel & Turbo licensee reported that the shop test proceeded as expected and was a success. Engineers fr
Hereby we bring you a short video of an innovating vessel design for heavy marine transport and offshore dry-docking developed by Dockwise and Delta Marine. Dockwise Vanguard is the first vessel of this design and it is the largest heavy lift vessel in the world. Dockwise Vanguard is a semi-submersi
A launching ceremony was held on Tuesday at Drydocks World shipyard for the floating regasification terminal “FSRU Toscana” of OLT Offshore LNG Toscana. The terminal will reach Italy in the second quarter of 2013 and will be located 22 kilometres off the coast between Livorno and Pisa. The terminal
Lamprell announced that it has received a new contract award from Dev Drilling Pte Limited, a company within the Jindal Group, based in Singapore, for the construction and delivery of a completely outfitted and equipped, LeTourneau designed, self-elevating Mobile Offshore Drilling Platform of a Supe
The first steel-cutting taking place in MEYER WERFT’s laser centre marks the start of construction of the new Project Sunshine ships for Royal Caribbean International. The first ship of this class will be completed in October 2014. It took the plasma torch in the yard’s state-of-the-art laser centre
TTS Group ASA has through its subsidiary TTS Offshore Handling Equipment AS signed a contract worth approximately 65 MNOK. The contract is with Kleven Verft AS in Norway and concerns delivery of an active heave compensated subsea crane for an offshore construction vessel for REM Offshore ASA. The de
Far Sitella (STX PSV08 CD) has been delivered today from STX OSV Vung Tau in Vietnam to Farstad Shipping Pte.Ltd in Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA. Upon arrival in Australia, the vessel will commence its long term commitment to Shell Australia related to their Prelude d
Boat builder Alnmaritec has launched the latest of its windfarm support vessels (WFSV) for long time client North Sea Logistics. The 19m Wave Captain class boat is powered by 2 x 880bhp Doosan engines and reaches over 25 knots. She has demonstrated exceptional sea keeping characteristics and superb
Incat Crowther announced that Briggs Commercial has taken delivery of the 18m Coastal Survey Catamaran, Severn Guardian. Severn Guardian is the third in a line of such vessels deployed by Briggs Marine to support coastal survey operations for the Environment Agency of England and Wales. Launched by
Ocean Rig UDW Inc., a global provider of offshore deepwater drilling services has received a $1.35 billion Bank Facility firm commitments from lenders for a $1.35 billion syndicated secured term loan to partially finance the construction costs of the Ocean Rig Mylos, the Ocean Rig Skyros and the Oce
ABS, a leading provider of global classification services, yesterday announced it will relocate its Northern European regional marine operations office from London to Hamburg, Germany. “This relocation is part of ABS’ ongoing effort to place our frontline decision makers closer to our clients and be
