Gearbox specialist Mekanord is now launching a gearbox which is up to 30 % lighter than traditional ones. The new product will be introduced at the SMM fair in Germany, and Mekanord is expecting a large, global potential for use in lightweight, high speed and low energy vessels. Lighter and stronger
The Naming Ceremony for 25,000 DWT IMO II Chemical/Product Tanker (MD096) was successfully held in Nantong prince dock today. On the ceremony, God mother Mrs. Pinker named the vessel “Reinhold Schulte”. More than one hundred people attended the ceremony, including friends from Bernhard Schulte, SMC,
Tsuji Heavy Industries Jiangsu shipyard, on August 28th, started the construction works on one of the world’s first LNG-powered sea-going cargo vessel. The two Rolls-Royce NVC 405 cargo vessels will be built at the Tsuji’s Jiangsu shipyard in China. The vessels will enter service from October 2013,
Smit Lamnalco, on 24 August, launched SL Gabon, the first tug branded under its new corporate identity, following the integration of Smit’s terminal handling activities with Lamnalco in July 2011. Built by Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania, SL Gabon is also the first of two newbuilds contracted for
The amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24), the eighth built at Huntington Ingalls Industries, recently returned from successful builder’s sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. Dock trials started last week, and the ship left HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Aug. 21 for three days of at-sea
Incat Crowther announces that it has been awarded a contract to design a 32m catamaran ferry for Ishigaki Dream Tours. Super Dream will be built by Richardson Devine Marine and will be the second Incat Crowther/RDM vessel for the operator, after 2008’s Premium Dream. True to Incat Crowther’s ethos o
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA, a leading U.S. commercial shipyard has delivered to Crowley a Veteran Class MT-46 product tanker. This is the thirteenth product tanker that the shipyard has completed and the seventeenth vessel overall. The product tankers are 600 feet long and have a cargo capacity
CIC Changxing Shipyard has completed the repair works of MV Deniz-M, a bulk carrier owned by a Turkish company. The main repair works included the M/E cylinder overhaul, the repair of main sea water pump & ballast pump, the fire pump overhaul, the renewal of hatch cover rubber packing and the Cargo
ANADOLU (ADIK) Shipyard has successfully delivered to Turkish Naval Forces Command TCG Ç-158, the Eight vessel of three years long 8 strong vessel Landing Craft Tank (LCT) project. Thus for the first time a Navy project undertaken by a privately owned Naval Shipyard is completed on time and on sched
Gisan has signed a new conversion project. The vessel will be converted to self-discharging bulk carrier with conveyor belts that allows the vessel to discharge cargoes quickly and efficiently. The new system will manage itself all automatically. It is a turn key project and Gisan will deliver the v
The workforce in the Hunter for the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Project has now hit almost 700 across Forgacs’ two Newcastle Shipyard facilities in Tomago and Carrington. There three AWDs are being built for the Australian Navy. Construction of the AWDs involves the fabrication of 90 separate steel
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) answered the call for 132 repairs to U.S. and foreign surface ships taking part in the 2012 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise that ended August 3. Held every two years by the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the two-month-long RIM
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the Research Vessel (RV 3609) ‘Simon Stevin’ to its Belgian client DAB Vloot, the Flemish governmental fleet operator. The RV 3609 was jointly designed by Damen Shipyards Gorinchem and VLIZ, the Flemish Institute for the Sea. While hull and hotworks were built at
Incat Crowther announces the successful completion of the re-fit of the 43m Catamaran Ferry Seastreak Wall Street. Seastreak Wall Street was the third of four such vessels built by Gladding Hearn in Massachusetts, and was launched in 2003. The vessels were originally fitted with four Cummins KTA50 m
