The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (BAHRI) announced that the company signed an agreement on Tuesday the 17th April 2012 to build (5) Kamsarmax vessels to transport dry bulk cargo. These generation vessel are of 82,000 DWT, length 229 meters, with modern fuel saving technologies and lates
South Boats Special Projects Ltd. announced the launch and commissioning of its 56th offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘MPI Cardenio’. The vessel is a fourth of class South Catamaran 17m and is the first of a two boat order from MPI Workboats Ltd. to be delivered. This vessel compliments the
General Dynamics NASSCO today began construction of the future USNS John Glenn, the second ship of the U.S. Navy’s Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) program. The 765-foot long ship is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in the first quarter of 2014. When in service, the ship will be used as an offshor
On April 16th Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard held launching ceremony for the 6.900 DWT product carrier VF Tanker-2. This is the third vessel in a series of 20 river sea-going product carriers of project RST27 ordered by VBTH. Krasnoye Sormovo is responsible for the construction of 10 tankers of project R
South Boats Special Projects Ltd. announced the launch and commissioning of its 54th offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘Iceni Pride’. The vessel is a South Catamaran 13m Rapid Response Vessel (RRV) built to fulfil a 5 year contract Iceni Marine Services has in place with Scottish & Southern E
SeaHold GEOSHIPS Ltd, a marine and subsea services shipping company, has taken delivery of its second multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) on a contract valued at over £30 million, following a successful year for its current vessel, the Stril Explorer. Formed in 2003, Aberdeen-based GEOSHIPS will man
On Wednesday 11th April 2012, Director André Hollander and Sales Manager Theo Kloosterman proudly announced the first shiprepair order of Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) by sounding the bell in the traditional way. It is the first vessel is booked under the new management and comes in the second wee
Lithuanian ship repair company Western Shiprepair and the Dutch dredging company Van Oord continue their co-operation in ships´ repair and modernisation. This week SC Western Shipyard daughter company JSC Western Shiprepair is planning to finish upgrading work of the backhoe dredger Goliath and repa
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited wishes to announce that COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered a bulk carrier of 92500DWT, “TRANS BEIJING”, to its European buyer. The delivery documents were
On Sunday 15 April MSC Divina successfully completed her initial sea trials, returning to the Louis Joubert dock after 3 days on the open seas off the coast of Brittany, France. The ship performed to the full satisfaction of the MSC Cruises team. The rigorous trials involved around 360 people and ov
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting products and services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewables industry, today held a naming ceremony for the Seajacks Zaratan, the third wind farm installation vessel to be built by the Group for Seajacks, as the pr
Wan Hai Lines held christening ceremony for “WAN HAI 275” at CSBC CORP., TAIWAN Keelung shipyard on Apr.11. Mr. Po Ting Chen, chairman of Wan Hai Lines presided over the ceremony. There are total 14 vessels ordered by Wan Hai to CSBC Corp, including four 1,800 TEUs, four 1,000 TEUs and six 4,500 TEU
Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited today announced three and five year charters for two of its modern handysize product tankers to a major end-user. These vessels currently under pooling arrangements will commence within April/May and are expected to generate gross revenues of approximately $42 millio
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea secured a contract for two 160,000 cbm LNG carriers from Angelicoussis Group of Greece, the company said in a statement. Two newbuildings are slated for delivery by mid 2015 and will be operated by Angelicoussis’ unit Maran Gas Maritime. The or
