U. S. Coast Guard has awarded Bollinger shipyards four additional Fast Response Cutters (FRC) contract. This follow-on award will result in an extension of our backlog for several years, and provide jobs for over 500 Bollinger employees. “This award reflects the Coast Guard’s continued confidence in
JSC Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center signed a contract for construction of second vessel similar to salvage tug Zvezdochka on Sept 13, said Arkhangelsk Governor Ilya Mikhalchuk in Severodvinsk at solemn meeting related to 60th jubilee of the yard’s Director General Vladimir Nikitin. The information abo
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. announced that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division was awarded a $697.6 million fixed-price incentive construction contract for a new Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer, DDG 114. It will be the 30th Aegis guided missile destroyer Ingalls has built for the U.S. N
Turkey’s first major domestically made warship, the TCG Heybeliada, will be formally delivered to the Turkish Navy on Tuesday. A second (HurriyetDailyNews) [mappress] Source: HurriyetDailyNews, September 26, 2011;
Van Oord’s new flexible fallpipe vessel, the Stornes, was christened on 24 September. The event, which was attended by hundreds of guests and Van Oord employees, took place at the Wilhelmina dock in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The christening ceremony was performed by Mrs J. van Vonno, wife of forme
On September 23, 2011 the board director and president of China Shipping Group Co. (CS) Mr. Xu Li Rong with his party came to CIC to carry on a work investigation. Group vice president and the president of CIC, Mr. Lin Jian Qing accompanied the investigation. The party members from CS attending the
Caribbean Tug LLC, an affiliate of SEACOR Holdings Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has plans to build two state-of-the-art 50-ton-bollard-pull ASD tugs. The 92’x38’16’9”, 4,640-hp tugs will be used for shipdocking and escort at the Hovensa Oil Refinery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The tugs are sc
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. announces that the keel for the 50,000DWT semi-submersible vessel FINESSE was laid into the dry dock facility in Qidong, China where Guangzhou Shipbuilding International (GSI) in constructing both the FORTE and the FINESSE for Fairstar. Willem Out, Fairstar’s Chief Oper
On September 15, Frontier Lodestar, a new 180,000 DWT class ore carrier built by Koyo Dockyard Co. Ltd. (Mihara city, Hiroshima prefecture), a member of the Imabari Shipbuilding Group, was delivered to NYK. The naming and delivery ceremony was attended by Mr. Ronald Peter Jackson, former chartering
Front Street Shipyard is unveiling initial plans for the Sparkman & Stephens -designed Front Street 118 and Front Street 130 sloops. The yachts have traditional hull lines and trademark S&S sheers, invoking a classic aesthetic from yachting’s golden era. The construction will be of advanced compos
In 2012-2014 Russian government plans to bring RUR 9.8 bln in authorized capital of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation. Substantial part of this sum will be appropriated to increase capital stocks of Severodvinsk shipyards Sevmash and Zvezdochka. As was said in the draft federal law “On Federal Bud
The launch ceremony for the self-elevating heavy-lift jack-up vessel NEPTUNE took place on 23 September 2011 at the IHC Merwede Shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. This jack up vessel is built by IHC Merwede for GeoSea N.V., the offshore marine construction specialist of the DEME Gr
Norway-based boat handling system and specialised davit supplier Vestdavit has been contracted by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry on behalf of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) to design and supply extra-long outreach workboat/lifeboat/FRC davits for PGS’s 5th generation Ramform new building seismic vessels. T
Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Inc. on (THICI) Tuesday delivered MV Cape Sampagita, the second largest ship the company built next to MV Tenshu… (SunStar) [mappress] Source: SunStar, September 23, 2011;
