On Wednesday 2 January 2013, Fendercare Marine announces the launch of a new division, Fendercare Marine Equipment and Lifting Services, located at their Great Yarmouth base. Fendercare Marine, one of the world’s leading suppliers of marine products and services, opened their energy support base in
STX OSV Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, informed that Fincantieri Oil & Gas S.p.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fincantieri – Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A., has signed an agreement for the acquisition of 50.75% of the share
A Norwegian fisheries company Ytterstad, based in Lødingen, has ordered a new flagship. The main function of the ship is to purse seining and pelagic trawling. The ship will have a length of 75 m, a width of 15.40 m and a tank capacity of 2100 m3. This advanced type of ship is developed by […
GPC Baru is the latest addition to the RAmparts 3200CL series, delivered to its owners Sociedad Portuaria Regional De Cartagena (SPRC) on October, 2012. Two more sister tugs for the same owner will follow. The vessel was constructed by Cheoy Lee Shipyards, Hong Kong. The vessel is a high performance
MAN Diesel & Turbo has announced another order for the MAN B&W ME-GI dual-fuel, two-stroke, gas-injection engine. Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (Teekay LNG), an offshoot of Teekay Corporation, the international shipping group, has placed an order for two LNG carriers powered by 2 × 2 5G70ME-GI engines, i
Lloyd’s Register has provided approval in principle (AIP) for the new ‘Clean Sky’ bulk carrier design incorporating an LNG-as-fuel system. COSCO, Golden Union and Lloyd’s Register started the project in June 2011 to investigate the potential to develop a commercially viable bulk carrier design based
An agreement has been signed to merge DNV and GL. The new entity will be called DNV GL Group. It will be one of the world’s leading ship classification societies and risk experts in the oil and gas, renewable energy and power sectors, and among the global top three within management system certifica
Ulstein has entered into a contract with Island Offshore and their American partner Edison Chouest Offshore for the delivery of a multifunctional offshore vessel based on ULSTEIN’s SX121 design, with an option for an additional vessel. The vessel is prepared and tailored for the well intervention, I
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, two contracts in support of the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer program. Bath Iron Works is the lead shipyard and design agent for the class. The first contract, valued at $28.3 million,
A series of new MacGregor offshore winch orders, secured in October, will serve the strong demand for maintenance, hook-up and commissioning services for existing oil platforms within the shallow water region of the Malay basin, says Francis Wong, Director, Segment Sales and Marketing, Offshore. “As
TTS Group ASA has, through its subsidiary TTS Marine AB in Gothenburg, signed a contract regarding ships equipment worth approx. 23 million NOK ($4.2 Mln). The contract is with STX Finland Oy and concerns delivery of equipment to one vessel. The deliveries will take place during 2014. [mappress] TTS
On 18th of December, Western Baltija Shipbuilding delivered new fishing trawler hull (NB56) for the Norwegian client “Liegruppen Fiskeri AS”. The vessel is a sister ship to the newbuilding “LIAFJORD” (NB51) which was delivered on March. Length of this fishing trawler – 64.0 m, width – 13.8 m. Nine r
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced yesterday that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has reached 90 percent structural completion in the building of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). Shipbuilders successfully added three units to the ship last week. Two of
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (APSI), the sole operating subsidiary of Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA, began production activities yesterday on the second of two Aframax tankers that it is building for SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. (SeaRiver), Exxon Mobil Corporation’s U.S. marine affiliate. The constr
