Disney Cruise Line took possession of its newest ship – Disney Fantasy – today from the Meyer Werft shipyard in a traditional maritime ceremony aboard the ship. The Meyer Werft flag was lowered, while the Disney Cruise Line flag was raised, transferring ownership from the shipbuilder to Disney. This
P&O Maritime, together with South Boats Special Projects Ltd., announcse the delivery of the latest addition to the P&O Maritime crew transfer vessel fleet; ‘Chinook’ This multi-purpose crew transfer vessel was designed by Incat Crowther, Australia and built by South Boats at Cowes on the Isle of Wi
Vigor Shipyard has reportedly commenced the construction of a new 144-car ferry. Construction work on this vessel was agreed under a 147M$ agreement signed between Washington State Ferry and Vigor Shipyard on November 1. The 32 M$ ferry design is based on the 130-car Issaquah class, which accounts f
Diana Shipping Inc., a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, yesterday took delivery of the newly-built m/v “Los Angeles”, a Newcastlemax dry bulk carrier of 206,104 dwt that was contracted in April 2010. As previously announced, the m/v “Los Angele
A HULL shipyard is to build and operate a fleet of vessels to serve giant offshore wind farms planned for the North Sea. MMS Ship Repair will both construct and run the boats, which will transfer technicians and equipment to the wind turbines. Capable of carrying 12 passengers, the vessels would be
In the future, operators of offshore wind farms will have one point of contact for all technical and service issues: Voith and the SCHRAMM group will pool their vessel design expertise and will jointly develop special vessels for the transfer of staff and material to wind farms in the North and Balt
Russia’s Yantar shipyard, last week , successfully finished trials for Indian Navy new Talwar class frigate. Previously, Russia completed frigates INS Talwar, INS Trishul, and INS Tabar. The $1.6-bln contract for second 3-ship batch for Indian Navy was signed on July 14, 2007 in Delhi. Remaining two
Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte. Ltd. (GGOS), a Singapore incorporated subsidiary of Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), which is a subsidiary of The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited has taken delivery of GREATSHIP VIMLA, a 150T Anchor Handling Tug cum Supply Vessel, from Drydocks World-Si
The Signet Constellation and Signet Stars & Stripes are the latest development in Robert Allan Ltd.’s RAstar series of tugs. These two powerful new escort tugs have been delivered to their owner’s – Signet Maritime Corporation of Houston, Texas. They were constructed to provide marine support servic
Evergas has secured additional four orders at the Sinopacific Offshore and Engineering Shipyard where the company is already engaged with its extensive newbuilding program. The vessels will be either 12.000 cbm or 17.000 cbm liquid ethylene carriers, and will be built to the highest specifications i
In the first half of 2012, Caspian Flotilla (CF) will be reinforced with Project 11661K missile ship Dagestan and Project 21630 small-size gunnery ship Volgodonsk. The ships are designed by Zelenodolsk Design Bureau (Tatarstan, Russia). Considering latest scientific achievements and assigned mission
CWind, the only British company to be awarded a Siemens vessel charter contract out of a European shortlist, today took delivery of CWind Athenia, a 20-tonne payload, multi-purpose catamaran (MPC). CWind Athenia is the second of the work vessels built by CTruk Boats to fulfil CWind’s Siemens contrac
Bergen Group Fosen has signed a contract with Volstad Maritime AS to build a large high end offshore vessel. The contract has an estimated value of more than NOK 800 million (approx USD 138.7 million), and the ship is scheduled for delivery in Q3 2013. The signed contract is subject to final board a
Saturday 4th February saw the arrival in Cowes of the replica of King George V’s J-Class Yacht Britannia, built in Arkhangelsk, Russia. The vessel is a replica of the original which was scuppered off St. Catherine’s Point on 10th July 1936 in accordance with the King’s dying wish that the “boat shou
