STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard started a production of a Double Ended newbuilding no. 1380 for Finferries, on Tuesday, December 13. Delivery of the 65-metre vessel is planned for the end of 2012. The double ended and environmentally friendly passenger ferry will operate in Turku Archipelago, Finlan
Western Marine, the country’s leading shipyard, laid four keels weighing 350 dwt (dead weight tonnage) each to build tankers for Nurjahan Group. Representatives from Nurjahan Group and Germanischer Lloyd Bangladesh, and 13 honorary consuls of Bangladesh from 12 different part of the world were prese
Fugro Brasil has signed a contract with Wilson Sons to build a DP-2 ROV Support Vessel in Brazil. The vessel´s total length is 83 meter with a main deck space of 520 square meter, gross tonnage of 4,400 ton, and accommodation for in total 60 persons. The vessel will be built at Wilson Sons´ shipyard
The Dutch shipbuilder, Damen Shipyards Group, has agreed with Norwegian shipowner World Wide Supply (WWS) to build 4 Platform Supply Vessels of the design “Damen PSV 3300 CD”. The vessels will be delivered from Damen`s shipyard in Romania from June to December 2013 and has a contract value of € 95 m
Almi Tankers S.A, the expansion-minded Greek wet-market operator, yesterday took delivery of its first of 10 Suezmax tankers during a ceremony at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s (DSME) main shipyard in Okpo, Korea. The 157,787 dwt Almi Horizon is the first of seven tankers being built b
Vigor Industrial, headquartered on Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, upon building a new 144-car ferry has terminated a subcontract with Tacoma-based J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding. According to Vigor, Martinac showed unwillingness towards meeting demands to lower its price to $14.8 million, which Vigor
Oceansaver has achieved a milestone for the ballast water treatment industry with the commissioning of the first treatment system to include filters on a crude oil tanker in Korea. The 159.000 DWT Suezmax tanker, Ottoman Integrity, is being delivered from a Korean shipyard for Turkish owner Gungen M
Namsung Shipping of Korea is preparing to place a new order for three 1,850 teu containerships at an undetermined South Korean yard, Seatrade Asia reports. The delivery is planned to be carried out by the first half of 2013 with the newbuilding boxships set to be deployed in Southeast Asia, includin
Earlier this month Bohandymar Limited, subsidiary of CMB, ordered 6 Handysize ECO-type bulk vessels (36.000 dwt) from Samjin Shipbuilding Industries Korea (Samjin) on very competitive conditions. The order includes two options each for two additional units. The delivery of the first four units is sc
Zvezda shipyard in Russia’s Far East has commenced the construction of an ice-breaker tanker for the Russia’s leading extraction and refinement company Rosneft. The ice-breaker tanker accounts for the first in a new series of “enhanced ice-class” tankers. Two vessels expected to have a capacity of o
On Dec. 9th 2011, China Shipping Industry (Jiangsu) Co, simultaneously named and delivered the 3rd and the 4th 57.000 DWT bulk carrier “Lan Hai He Xie” and “Lan Hai Sheng Hui” to Minsheng Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Lanhai Shipping Co., Ltd., which was another success after the naming
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured a US$291.6 million contract to build an accommodation semi-submersible rig with options for another two units from Prosafe, the world’s leading owner and operator of accommodation and service rigs. Scheduled for delivery in the second quarter
Maersk Supply Service has signed a contract with Chilean shipyard Asenav for two innovative new offshore vessels with an option for – up to – four additional vessels. The project value for the two vessels is close to USD 200 million. The vessels will replace existing vessels operating in the Canadia
JSC Severnaya Verf shipyard, affiliate of United Industrial Corporation (USC) belonging to ex-senator Sergei Pugachev, confirms corvette Boiky will be delivered to Russian Navy in 2012, reports RIA Novosti referring to the yard’s director general Andrei Fomichev. “Third corvette, Boiky, is ready to
