Navgathi Marine Design and Constructions has signed a contract with SENER for the use of FORAN in their design and shipbuilding activities in the town of Kochi, India. According to the agreement, the marine engineering company acquires licenses of FORAN, specifically the package of Forms (hull form
Marin Teknikk AS has signed a contract for design and engineering of a new Subsea Support & Construction vessel for Otto Candies LLC in Des Allemands, Louisiana, USA. The vessel will be built on the owner’s private shipyard, Candies Shipbuilders. The ship is a new design from Marin Teknikk called MT
The new heavy-duty cutter suction dredger (CSD) ‘Amazone’, was named yesterday at Marina Bay Cruise Centre in Singapore by Mrs. Monique Marcourt, spouse of Mr. Jean-Claude Marcourt, Vice-president and Minister for Economy, SME’s, Foreign Trade and new Technologies of the Walloon Government. This new
Malaysian shipping company Shinline has taken delivery of its newbuild general cargo vessel, named ‘Shinline 12’ from domestic shipyard Shin Yang at Kuala Baram, Baird Maritime reports. This is the third in a row delivery from Shin Yang shipyard and Shinline expects one more next year. The main char
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, announced an industry engagement session for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) Project. The CSC is one of the projects of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) and is in
BAE Systems announced on Thursday that it has entered into a definitive agreement with American Maritime Holdings, Inc. to acquire Marine Hydraulics International, Inc. (“MHI”), a privately held company that operates a shipyard, pier and waterfront facilities in Norfolk, Virginia. The proposed acqui
Navantia received, on 15th. November, the first Algerian Navy ship for its repairing and modernization. The contract for the reparation and modernization of the two units came in force last 25th July. With the arrival of this ship to Reparaciones Fene-Ferrol facilities, Navantia Reparaciones will st
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a £12 million order to design and equip two platform supply vessels (PSVs). The vessels will be built at Jiangsu Eastern Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. in China. Rolls-Royce UT 755 LN vessels are designed specifically for transporting solid and liqu
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co. held the launching ceremony for 82.000 DWT KAMSARMAX bulk carrier named NBA MAGLITTE, build for NYK BULKSHIP (ATLANTIC) NV, on November 6th 2012. The name KAMSARMAX derives from the ship’s length, which is the maximum possible for entry into the port of Kamsar in Guinea, W
QGOG Constellation S.A. announced today that on November 14 it exercised, through one of its affiliates, an option for an advanced-capability DP3 ultra-deepwater drillship to be constructed by Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. This will be the third drillship with SHI in South Korea and is scheduled
A christening ceremony of Ever Lawful, the seventh L-type containership in the Evergreen Line’s fleet took place today at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in South Korea. The L-type ship is 334 meters in length, 45.8 meters wide, with 942 reefer plugs and a draft of 14.2 meters. The vessel ca
Consilium is now launching the new flexible and user-friendly gas detection system Salwico GDS. Salwico GDS is designed and developed to meet the demands of the customers as well as the regulatory requirements from SOLAS, the majority of Classification societies and the EC (European Community) rules
Blue Ship Invest, a wholly-owned company in Ulstein Group, has entered into an agreement with Atlantic Offshore on management of the third out of six platform supply vessel of ULSTEIN’s PX121 type design. Currently under construction at Ulstein Verft, the vessel is scheduled for delivery in February
Shipham Valves, a subsidiary of Wärtsilä, has completed the development programme for a new range of composite single plate wafer check valves, which will be introduced to the market place at the Valve World Exhibition to be held in Düsseldorf at the end of November. Available in sizes from 3” – 12”
