Top Stories of the Week (May 6 – May 11, 2013)

Hyundai Heavy to Build World’s Largest Boxships for CSCL

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder, today announced that the company has won a USD 700 million order for five 18,400 TEU containerships from China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.

The world’s largest containerships will feature …

NNS Secures Additional Funding for CVN 79

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced yesterday that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has received an increase of $60.8 million to a previously awarded construction preparation contract for purchase of materials in support of aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) construction.

The funds awarded to NNS will be used to …

Subsea 7 Orders One from Hyundai Heavy

Subsea 7 S.A. today announced that it has signed a contract to build a new heavy construction vessel which will be delivered in 2016. Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), one of the world’s largest shipbuilding companies, will build the new vessel.

SHI Lays Keel for World’s First FLNG Project

Samsung Heavy Industries and Shell have laid the keel for Prelude FLNG, the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project. When complete, Prelude is expected to be the largest offshore floating facility ever built. The hull will now be assembled in the dry dock …

Aker Arctic Unveils New ‘Heavy Duty’ Icebreaker

With construction underway on the first ever Oblique Icebreaker, research specialist Aker Arctic Technology has unveiled a new version of the unique vessel type that will bring ice management and pollution control in thick first year ice to a new level.

The first ARC 100 is due delivery to …

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