Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded the contract to supply integrated power and automation systems for two new icebreakers being built for a Russian state-owned enterprise by Vyborg Shipyard JSC, a long-time partner of Wärtsilä. The contract was
Today, Crowley Maritime Corporation will christen the first two of four tugboats in the ocean class series, Ocean Wave and Ocean Wind, tomorrow in New Orleans. The vessels were designed by Crowley subsidiary Jensen Maritime, which has a recently opened office located at 1515 Poydras Street, Suite 20
The world’s largest classification society ClassNK, announced that the world’s first specialized vessel for the carriage of Nickel Ore has been built and registered to the NK class. The vessel, the Jules Garnier II, was built by Naikai Zosen Corporation and delivered to Japanese shipping major JX Sh
With the global naval sector looking to deploy more energy efficient vessels, GE’s Power Conversion business is supplying its electrical propulsion drive train technology for the U.K. Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s (RFA) new fleet of Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) tankers. When completed,
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered Paradise 400, a high-specification KFELS B Class jackup rig to Safin Gulf FZCO (Safin) ahead of schedule and with a strong safety record. The rig is a refurbishment and upgrade of a KFELS B Class jackup rig that Keppel FELS purchased in 2011. Developed
On October 23rd, 2012 the self-propelled dry-cargo vessel “NEVA-LIDER 2″ (project RSD49) returned to Nevsky Shipyard from builder’s sea trials. The Sea Trials Program was successfully completed during the builder’s sea trials. Designer – Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb, JSC. The vessel will hav
ABS, a leading provider of classification services to the marine and offshore industry, yesterday announced the release of the new Energy & Environmental Manager module within NS5 Enterprise, the industry-leading asset management software suite. This module complements the ABS portfolio of services
Moments ago, a contract signing ceremony for a new tug vessel took place at Damen booth at the Offshore Energy 2012 Exhibition & Conference in Amsterdam. The contract was signed by the Dutch shipbuilder and a privately owned towage company Iskes Towage and Salvage. The new vessel, of ASD 2810 Hybrid
YM Unanimity, an 8,626 TEU full-container vessel built for Yang Ming by CSBC CORP., TAIWAN, was delivered and named at a ceremony held at CSBC Kaohsiung Shipyard on October 19, 2012. The ceremony was presided over by Dr. Frank Lu, Chairman of Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp., and Mr. Robert Lai, Cha
BMT Nigel Gee Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group, the leading international maritime design and engineering consultancy, announced that the first 26m XSS Windfarm Support for Turbine Transfers has been launched at the Sepers B.V shipyard in Holland. The XSS (Extreme Semi-SWATH) offers significant improv
An affiliate of American Petroleum Tankers Parent LLC (APT), a company majority owned by funds managed by Blackstone on behalf of its investors, announced its commitment to build two new state-of-the-art tanker vessels at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego. Th
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. a South Korean shipbuilding company has received an order for construction of a drillship for an unknown European customer, Yonhap News Agency reported Monday. Under the contract worth US$700 million, the vessel should be completed by the second half of 2015, the comp
Leo Hambro, Commercial Director of Tidal Transit, has announced that the company has just placed an order for the manufacture of the third, in its potential fleet of ten, innovative wind farm crew transfer vessels. To be named Tia Elizabeth, this new vessel will be built to exactly the same high spe
Today, the Maritime by Holland Catalogue 2013 was presented at the Maritime by Holland Pavilion at Offshore Energy 2012. A valuable reference book for the international maritime community, including 225 company profiles of Dutch maritime suppliers and shipyards. The catalogue contains up to date inf
