Iran’s third home-made oceangoing ship named ‘Iran Kashan’ launched in the southern waters of the country on Sunday, deputy director of Iran… (IRNA) [mappress] Source: IRNA, September 12, 2011.
At 15:08 pm on September 8, 3#16900DWT BC, being built for Polish Steamship Co., by SF shipyard, was launched successfully. The vessel to be a single screw motor ship with B type freeboard,fitted with one controlled pitch left-handed propeller driven by low speed diesel engine 5S50MC-C,suitable for
The naming and launch ceremony for the 12,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger, CHANG JIANG KOU 01, took place on 10 September 2011 at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands. IHC Merwede is building the impressive vessel for Yangtze Estuary Waterway Administration Bureau MOT, which
The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (SCI) accepted delivery of a Supramax Bulk carrier, m.v. Vishva Nidhi on 9th September, 2011. The vessel is first vessel of SCI’s six nos. Supramax bulk carriers ordered at STX (Dalian) Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., China, which is part of the world renowned STX Offsh
Keppel AmFELS LLC, a wholly owned US subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has completed the delivery of its fourth EXL jack-up rig to a subsidiary of Rowan Companies, Inc. (Rowan) with a perfect safety record, four months ahead of schedule and within budget. The jack-up rig was c
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. announced that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $482.8 million fixed-price-incentive-firm contract from the U.S. Coast Guard for the construction of a fifth National Security Cutter. Construction and delivery of the yet-to-be-named WMSL 754 will be
After a 26-month fabrication period, PV Shipyard announced its successful load-out of the first “fabricated in Vietnam” 90 m jack-up rig. The rig will weigh almost 12,000 tons when fully finished, in which 9,685 tons is of structural materials, 950 tons of piping system and 1,748 tons of electrical,
The five main builders of LNG carriers are at full capacity and unlikely to take further orders until 2014, resulting in a supply/demand imbalance that could create a bottleneck in the LNG supply chain over the next three or four years. In its assessment of the market, Awilco LNG stated in its 120-p
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has today opened a new Marine Service Centre in the Port of Hamburg, Germany. The investment marks the latest stage in the development of a global marine service network. This year, with Hamburg, four new or expanded Marine Service Centres have been ope
Otto Marine Limited, a leading offshore marine company which specialises in building complex offshore support vessels, ship chartering and offers specialised offshore services, announces today that it has secured newbuild orders for two units of 12,000bhp AHTS worth US$38.5 million each from Go Mari
South Korea’s largest bulk shipper STX Pan Ocean succeeded in obtaining a sizeable loan from a group of domestic and overseas lenders to finance new vessel orders. STX Pan Ocean announced on Friday that it held a signing ceremony at the Millennium Hilton Hotel in Seoul the day before, for the $510 m
President Benigno Aquino III has ordered the release of P4.95 billion to buy six helicopters and a high-endurance cutter and finance other e… (manilastandardtoday) [mappress] Source: manilastandardtoday, September 9, 2011;
The Navy began construction of the thirteenth Virginia-class submarine, the as of yet unnamed SSN 787 Sept. 2. This new construction marks the first time in 22 years that two submarines of the same class have started construction in the same year. “To get to this important point, our Navy/industry s
Samsung Heavy Industries has successfully developed the industry’s first membrane-type cargo hold for LNG tankers. With this, the company has finally tackled the last unsolved development initiative for the Korean shipbuilding industry, which was the cargo hold manufacturing technology for LNG tanke
