Mr. Murilo Ferreira, the new Chief Executive Officer of Vale, the largest iron ore supplier, attended China’s first 400,000 DWT VLOC naming and launching ceremony. The Ceremony was held at the shipyard of China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Limited (01101.HK), the builder of this vessel.
Next year will see 1.55MTEU added to the global containership fleet, an expansion of 9.5% and increasing available capacity to 16.8MTEU… (imarest) [mappress] Source: Imarest , July 11, 2011;
Otto Energy Ltd. attach an announcement by the Galoc Production Company (GPC) regarding an upgrade of the mooring and riser system for the FPSO Rubicon Intrepid operating at the Galoc field. The new turret mooring system is designed to substantially increase the reliability and uptime of the FPSO an
In the course of the next six months, we will decide where to build our six new icebreakers, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov… (barentsobserver) [mappress] Source: barentsobserver, July 7, 2011;
UAE-based GMMOS Group announces it has rebranded to Stanford Marine Group (SMG) in order to better reflect its focus on chartering, operation, building, and maintenance of Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs). The Group has two main divisions focused on the marine sector: Stanford Marine (OSV chartering)
EXMAR announces that the OPTI-EX® floating production system has been successfully delivered to LLOG Deepwater Development Company on July 5th, at Mississippi Canyon 547 in the Gulf of Mexico. Mooring and installation of the OPTI-EX® will follow. Processing capacity of the OPTIEX® is 60,000 BOPD and
The International Forum “Marine Industry of Russia” 2011 (18-20 May, 2011) has successfully finished its work. 268 companies from Russia, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands and Ukraine showcased their products and participated in the business events of t
DOF Installer ASA christened the latest addition to a new generation of high powered anchor handling vessels built to match the challenges of deepwater mooring and field installation operations. Skandi Skansen, the company’s fourth Installer Vessel was officially named at a ceremony held on the 2 Ju
HOCHTIEF has a new partner for the construction and operation of dynamically positioned offshore jack-up vessels for offshore windfarms and oil&gas: GeoSea, which is part of the Belgian DEME Group, is taking over the BELUGA HOCHTIEF Offshore GmbH shares that were sold by the heavy-lift shipping comp
Hemisphere, the yachting world’s most eagerly awaited sailing catamaran, has commenced sea trials in the UK. Delivery from Pendennis Shipyard is set for late July. With a length overall of 44.2m (145ft) and a gross tonnage of just under 500, Hemisphere will scoop the record as the world’s largest lu
Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (“MHB”) announces that it has entered into a Joint Venture Agreement with Technip Geoproduction (M) Sdn Bhd (“TPGM”) for the establishment of a jointly controlled entity, to be known as Technip MHB Hull Engineering Sdn Bhd (“TMH”), that will perf
On July 6, NYK Line and Tokyo LNG Tanker Co. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd., held a naming ceremony for a jointly owned LNG carrier being built at the Sakaide Shipyard of the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation. At the ceremony, Tsuyoshi Okamoto, the president of Tokyo Gas Co. L
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line; head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; president: Yasumi Kudo) and Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (head office: Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture; president: Takao Kawamoto) have jointly developed a new energy-saving technology called the MT-COWL, which reduces t
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that California (SSN 781), the nation’s newest and most advanced nuclear-powered submarine, returned to the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division after completing the ship’s first round of sea trials. The submarine returned July 2 with a broom on
