Incat Crowther announced commencement of construction of a 26m Catamaran Passenger Ferry at Aluminium Marine in Queensland. The vessel has been commissioned by Southern Discoveries of New Zealand’s South Island. The new vessel will operate out of Queenstown, transferring passengers to isolated desti
Over two consecutive days on 2 and 3 February 2013, Keppel FELS held naming ceremonies for twin jackup rigs built for Transocean, and another jackup rig built for Asia Offshore Drilling (AOD), which is majority owned and managed by Seadrill Limited. For the early completion of two of these rigs, Kep
Scorpio Tankers Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement with SPP Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. of South Korea (“SPP”) for the construction of four MR product tankers for approximately $32.5 million each, two of which are the exercise of options from a previous contract. These vessels will be delive
USS Guardian Still Sits on Tubbataha Reef, Philippines The mine counter-measures ship ‘USS Guardian’ (MCM 5) still sits on the Tubbataha Reef. Operations to safely recover the ship while minimizing environmental effects are being conducted in close cooperation with allied Philippines Coast Guard and
German shipping company NSC Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Cie. KG (NSC) has decided to implement a Condition Monitoring (CM) survey arrangement on the main diesel engine pistons of 49 GL-classed vessels of its fleet. The arrangement was agreed to at the end of 2012 at NSC’s head office in Hamburg b
A number of 54 vessels were successfully delivered by Redwise Maritime Services, in 2012. The transports involved the delivery of a wide range of newly built vessels (30 in total) that made their maiden voyage from the yard to their new destination worldwide. The mobilization of existing tonnage – a
Following sea trials during the past few weeks, Dockwise now confirms the delivery of Dockwise Vanguard. The vessel has left the yard of Hyundai Heavy Industries (“HHI”) this morning and started its maiden trip. Dockwise Vanguard will sail to the Samsung Heavy Industries (“SHI”) yard in Korea to pic
Navis Engineering is supplying six DP2 systems for the new series of Fast Support Intervention Vessels (FSIVs) being built at the Piriou SEAS shipyard in Vietnam for Paris-based Bourbon, the offshore marine services provider. The first vessel in the six-ship series, the Bourbon Sirocco was delivered
Cecon signed Completion Contracts for the three Vessels under construction at Chantier Davie Canada Inc. Hull 717 with a cost of CAD 69.5 mill and delivery autumn 2013. Hull 718 at a cost of CAD 75 mill and hull 719 at a cost of CAD 100 mill. The entering into these contracts fulfills the […]
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA, a leading U.S. commercial shipyard, has delivered to Crowley their second Veteran Class MT-46 product tanker. It is the fourteenth product tanker that the shipyard has completed and the eighteenth vessel overall. Crowley took delivery of the sistership, the Pennsylvan
Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Co signed a $397 million contract in Beijing to build nine patrol vessels for the marine patrol force, china. org.cn reported on Thursday. The nine ships are five 3,000-ton vessels and four 5,000-ton vessels, and their design will be based on Haijian 50, a 3,000-ton shi
Seadrill has entered into an agreement for the construction of two high specification jack-up drilling rigs with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Inc. (DSIC Offshore) in China. The new units are scheduled for delivery during the first and second quarter 2015, and the estimated total project pri
GasLog Ltd. announced the delivery of the fully owned LNG carrier GasLog Shanghai, from Samsung Heavy Industries. The vessel was delivered on budget and ahead of schedule. Immediately on delivery she commenced a medium-term charter to Methane Services Ltd. (BG Group). The vessel is a 155,000 cubic m
Far Spica (STX PSV08 CD) has today Thursday 31 January been delivered from STX OSV Langsten to Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA. The vessel will commence a term charter contract with Statoil to support their drilling campaign on the coast of East Africa. Reference
