Caspian Flotilla (CF) will receive two new ships till the end of 2011, says Russian defense ministry’s press release. The question is Project 11661K Gepard corvette Dagestan and Project 21630 Buyan small-size gun ship Volgodonsk. Both warships were developed by Zelenodolsk Design Bureau and built by
The Vaagland Batbyggeri shipyard in Norway has entered into a contract to build a new purse seiner for Norwegian fishing company Fiskebas AS… (WorldFishing) [mappress] Source: WorldFishing, November 11, 2011; Image: Rolls-Royce
The Navy will christen and launch dry cargo/ammunition ship the USNS Medgar Evers, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, during a 9 a.m. PST ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. The ship is named to honor civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will deliver t
Recently, the Marketing Director of Yuexin Shipbuilding, Mr. Eric Lim ,signed a contract of two 77 m DP2 Offshore Support/ Oil Recovery Vessels. The vessel measures 77.8m in length with a molded breadth of 17.6m, a molded depth of 7.8m and the maximum draft is 6.4m. With 3600T dead weight, the vesse
Grandweld Shipyards has commemorated the delivery of the second of three 41M crew boats in a special ceremony held at Grandweld facility in Dubai Maritime City. This marks Grandweld’s seventh delivery in 2011. Global Queen, an advanced version of the 41m crew boat, is the 18th of its type to be buil
Severodvinsk-based Zvezdochka Shipyard has completed the construction of the jack-up drilling rig “Arkticheskaya” for LLC Gazflot… (Port News) [mappress] Source: Portnews, November 10, 2011
In a solemn event at the Halifax Shipyard, Minister Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Regional Minister for Nova Scotia and Minister Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans unveiled the first of nine ‘Hero’ Class Mid-shore patrol vessels currently being built for the Canadian C
Huntington Ingalls, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded an $8,673,842 cost-plus-fixed-fee level of effort contract for planning and design yard functions for standard Navy valves in support of nuclear powered submarines. This contract includes options, which, if exercised, would bring the cumu
Thursday 10th of November 2011 Deepsea Metro II naming ceremony was officially held in Ulsan at the Hyundai Heavy Industries yard. This is the fourth successful ultra deep water vessel delivery for Odfjell Drilling, with regards to project planning, delivery and excellent HSE performance. “This is
On 08 November 2011, at HVS Dock No.2, Keel Laying Ceremonies for 03 Bulk Carriers having Hull Nos. S043, S047 and S046 were held under the attendance of representatives from Owners, Class and the Yard. S043 is the last in the series of 2 vessels contracted with ESL Shipping, Finland; S047, the seco
Astrakhan Ship Repair Plant (affiliate of Zvezdochka shipyard) builds Project 22870 salvage ship for Caspian Flotilla (CF) Search and Rescue Service under Russian Navy’s order. The project developer is JSC Vympel Design Bureau (Nizhny Novgorod). The project documentation was developed under contract
Jasper Investments Limited has awarded a USD 73.6 million contract to a subsidiary of the China Merchants Industry Holding Co., Ltd (“CMIH”) to retrofit and convert its Neptune Finder (“Finder”) semi-submersible into an accommodation vessel / floatel. The contract between Jasper Finder Pte Ltd, a su
MAN Diesel & Turbo has announced the first order for its second- generation EGR system, to be applied aboard a Maersk Line container vessel – the 4,500-teu new building #2358. The system will be fully integrated with the vessel’s main engine, a two-stroke MAN B&W 6S80ME-C9 type to be built by Hyunda
Leighton Offshore launched the newest edition to the fleet, the Leighton MPV-1 cable lay vessel, at the Al Jazeera Port in Ras Al Khaimah. The MPV -1 will be mobilised to undertake the cable lay scope of the $799m Phase 1 Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP) currently underway. The MPV-1
