South Korean shipbuilder and one of the world’s biggest, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has set a new daily naming ceremony record. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Nikolas Lemos, Chairman of Enesel, Mr. Kim Oi-hyun, President & CEO of Hyundai Heavy Industries, as well as other 130 participants at H
IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the 23,545kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger ‘AL BAHAR’ C/D HUTA 12 in a ceremony on 8 March 2014 at the company’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands. It is building the innovative vessel for Huta Marine Works, which is based in Saudi Arabia
Gondan Shipyard to Build New Vessel for Marine Research Institute of Norway Gondan shipyard has been awarded the construction of a new oceanographic vessel for the Institute of Marine Research of Norway. The contract is due for signing on 14 March. STX O&S Wins New Tankers Order from Greece STX Offs
Star Bulk Carriers Corp., has taken delivery of M/V Star Sirius, a Post-Panamax bulk carrier of approximately 98,000 deadweight tons carrying capacity. The Star Sirius is the second of the two modern Post-Panamax bulk carriers to be delivered to the company, pursuant to the relevant binding agreemen
Conoship Naval Architect Jan van der Zee has won the VNSI Wim Timmersprijs award for his graduation work ‘Collaborative Design Tools’. At this moment, data exchange between ship design applications is often done manually, which takes a lot of time and is prone to errors. Based on technologies develo
Dutch builder AMELS sold its newbuild AMELS 180 superyacht in February. The yacht will be delivered in May 2015. Advised by the experts at Burgess in Monaco, the owners opted for a customised design provided by Christian Liaigre. “In just 16 months, these owners will be enjoying a very personal yach
The Dutch company Sima Charters successfully delivered a Multi Purpose 66ft Tender, christened SC Amethyst. Built by Sima Charters and Shipinstall, the tender features design and naval architecture by Vripack and is engineered for countless activities in the offshore sector. The SC Amethyst is a hea
The following video, brings you a taste of the entire process on a particular type of vessel, namely the Damen Platform Supply Vessel 3300 CD. The Damen Platform Supply Vessel is a highly efficient, large-capacity ship, especially suited for transport of crew and supplies to and from offshore struct
Bergen Group said in a release today that it has decided to accelerate the process of reducing the Group’s future involvement in the shipbuilding business in favor of a more dedicated focus on offshore related activities. As a part of this process, Bergen Group has entered into an agreement of selli
Lomar has declared a further three options to build new container vessels at Chinese shipyards. The company now has over 20 firm newbuilding orders for container ships and bulk carriers within its fleet of over 60 vessels. The company has declared its final two options in a total order for six 1,100
The icebreaking rescue vessel Baltika left on sea trial on Thursday morning 6 March 2014. The trial will last for a couple of days. The sea trial is part of the test use of the ship, which is done to assure the functionality of the vessel systems. Baltika is the first ship ever to break […]
Aqua-Guard has signed a contract with Damen Shipyards of Gorinchem, The Netherlands for the supply of two large URO 300Z1 offshore oil skimming systems. Damen Shipyards are currently building two Oil Spill Response Vessels (OSRV’s class 1050) for the end customer GeoNavegação of Rio de Janeiro, Bras
The Dutch offshore contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting has ordered Amarcon’s OCTOPUS-Onboard decision support technology for her monohull crane vessel Stanislav Yudin. This order is the second OCTOPUS-Onboard installation for Seaway Heavy Lifting. In 2011 the Oleg Strashnov was equipped with Amarcon’s m
Cemre Shipyard launched a new ship built for Norwegian Havyard Group based on the order of Icelandic oil service company Fafnir Offshore on 1 March 2014. The vessel, Polarsyssel, is a state-of-the-art platform supply vessel (PSV) of Havyard 832L L WE design, specially built for operations under extr
