Fjord Line said that Bergen Mayor Trude Drevland will christen the second of its two new cruise ferries in Bergen on Thursday, 6 March 2014. During the two following days, people in Bergen and Stavanger are invited aboard MS Bergensfjord before the ship embarks on its first sailing with passengers.
Johannes D. Neteland has been appointed CEO for NorYards AS with effect from March 1st 2014. He will replace Asle Solheim who has been acting CEO since the company was established last fall. Neteland will take up the position as CEO for NorYards as an engagement running from March 1st 2014 and six m
What if, in the near future, fishing boats replaced the diesel engine by a propulsion mode reducing both their energy bills and their polluting emissions, while contributing to the improvement of their crews’ working conditions? That is the goal of FILHyPyNE, a major naval hydrogen technology projec
“Britannia”, the new flagship of the P&O Cruises fleet owned by the Carnival Group, was launched on Friday, 14 February 2014, at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard. Delivery is scheduled for the beginning 2015. The construction of “Britannia” consolidates Fincantieri’s primacy in building the largest
Portugal –based shipping company Portline Transportes Marítimos Internacionais, SA (Portline) has placed an order for six bulk carriers with unnamed Asian shipyards, Macau Business Daily reports. The vessels are intended for domestic and international service. The first vessel is scheduled for deliv
On 21st Feb 2014 UZMAR Shipyard, also known as “Workboat and Tug Factory” of Turkey, delivered first two most advanced diesel electric shallow draft river push boats to Brazilian owners, Hidrovias do Brazil S.A. A total of eight ordered push boats will operate in Parana River, South America under a
British company Sure Wind Marine Ltd. has taken delivery of its second Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier – the Sure Swift – in a little over a month after the first joined the company’s fleet. Established in 2009, Sure Wind is a specialist in the German offshore wind market and now has 10 dedicated
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) signed an agreement with Baku Shipyard LLC of Azerbaijan for the design approval of project 38m сrew boat high speed craft (designer – SHIPTECH, Singapore). The new boats are intended for the carriage of specialised personnel employed at offshore oil and ga
With the AHTS Bourbon Liberty 320, BOURBON is now running a fleet of 100 Bourbon Liberty series-built, diesel-electric propelled and DP 2 vessels, a first in the oil services industry. This milestone coincides with the delivery of the first two of 20 deep offshore PSVs of the new BOURBON series: the
Sovcomflot Group (SCF) has taken delivery of the first of two 320,000-dwt Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), the Svet from Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. (BSHIC). The Svet, classed by Det Norske Veritas, is 332 m long, 60 m wide, has a depth of 30.05 m, draught of 22.6 m and operational
On 25 February 2014, approximately nine months after the keel laying of TUI Cruises’ first new building Mein Schiff 3, TUI Cruises and STX Finland celebrated the keel laying of Mein Schiff 4 in the Turku shipyard. Following the old shipbuilding tradition, the lucky coins were placed under the keel b
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won an order for two subsea cranes from South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd. The active heave-compensated cranes will have an SWL of 100-tonnes and 25-tonnes respectively. They will be fitted on board a new 160m heavy construction vessel (hull 2654)
ABB, a leading global provider of innovative, reliable, safe and environmentally-friendly power and energy solutions, is to supply a complete S2S system to Color Line’s ro-pax ferry, SuperSpeed1. The 34,231 tons gross SuperSpeed1, built by Aker Finnyards at Rauma in Finland, has been in service on t
Ulstein announced today the shipbuilding contracts for two new platform supply vessels (PSVs) for Blue Ship Invest. The vessels are of the PX121 design and are scheduled for delivery from Ulstein Verft Q1 2015. Ulstein Verft currently has seven vessels on order. In total, Ulstein has sold 20 designs
