Reinforcing its role as a major supplier of electric propulsion technology for liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships, GE’s Power Conversion business recently received a series of new orders from South Korean companies Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries. The GE equipmen
The Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the future USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), departed from the Marinette Marine Corp. shipyard in Marinette, Wis., Aug. 6, beginning its journey to her commissioning site in Galveston, Texas, before heading to her eventual homeport of San Diego, Calif. Fort Worth is the
On Monday Huntington Ingalls Industries began construction on the amphibious transport dock LPD 27. The ship, being built at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, is the 11th ship in the USS San Antonio (LPD 17) class of ships. “This is the 11th LPD in what has become a hot production line,”
Sembcorp Marine Ltd, through Jurong Offshore Pte Ltd’s wholly-owned subsidiaries has secured total contracts worth approximately US$4,32 Billion from Sete Brasil Participacǒes S.A. (Sete Brasil), for the design and construction of five drillships based on Jurong Shipyard’s proprietary Jurong Espadon
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) delivered a 120T Bollard pull Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS), “SCI Ahimsa”, at the ceremony held on Tuesday to the Shipping Corporation of India Ltd, Mumbai (SCI). This is the third in the series of four 120T Bollard pull AHTS’ being built by CSL for SCI. The
Excelerate Energy today announced it has entered into a shipbuilding option agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for the delivery of up to eight Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRUs) between early 2015 and early 2017. The agreement affords Excelerate, the worl
The Senate Defense Appropriations Bill for FY2013 contains $1,784,959,000.00 requested by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl and the Department of the Navy for the construction of four Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), Senator Kohl announced today. Two of those ships will be built by Wisconsin’s Marinette Marine and
The global AC drives manufacturer Vacon will deliver altogether 81 AC drives for 3 new fishing trawlers, owned by the international seafood company Aker Seafoods, headquartered in Norway. The new fishing vessels will be built at the STX shipyard in Braila, Romania. They will be further outfitted and
FMC Dockyard Ltd. (subsidiary of FMC Group) is about to pioneer construction of fishing trawlers in Bangladesh, with a four unit order under construction at its shipyard, scheduled for delivery to a local buyer already in January. According to the Financial Express, with the launching of indigenous
Principals of Rethymnis & Kulukundis Ltd., the UK-based shipbrokers and agents, have taken delivery of the first vessel built at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s (DSME) new shipyard at Yantai, Shandong, China. The 58,518 dwt Astra Centaurus, built to Lloyd’s Register class, is the first
United Shipbuilding Corporation, its subsidiary Baltiysky Zavod JSC (Baltic Shipyard), has won the contract worth $1.6 Bln for the construction of icebreaker LK-60 of 22220 Project with the capacity of 60 MW. To successfully operate in the Arctic, Russia is constantly developing and improving atomic
On early Sunday morning of 12 August the Celebrity Reflection, the new cruise ship for the US cruise company Celebrity Cruises (Miami), will be floated out of the covered building dock II of MEYER WERFT, assisted by tugs. The float-out will start around 7.30 a.m. By 9 a.m. the ship will be berthed a
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) launched two Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) being built for European clients on 04 August 2012 bearing the yard Hull Nos. BY-89 & BY-90. Shri Osman Sevver, Owner’s Representative launched the first vessel BY-89 and Shri George Thomas Roy, Chief General Manager (Tech), C
Veka-Group is constructing a series of catamarans for the offshore industry. The vessels have been specially developed for crew tendering and offer also enough deck space for transporting three 10 ft containers. The first vessel, destined for an operator of a wind farm, will be delivered mid Septemb
