Her Majesty The Queen will officially name the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony in Scotland this summer. The naming ceremony at Rosyth dockyard in Fife on Friday 4 July 2014 will mark the completion of the 65,000-tonne ship which will be Britain’s biggest ever carr
Construction on the 135,000-ton Carnival Vista is officially underway. Last week at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, the first steel was cut on Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest Tun Ship, which is slated to enter senvice in spring 2016. Following the initial start-up of construction, worke
Njord Offshore is about to add a 26m Damen 2610 Twin Axe Crew Transfer Vessel, the Njord Alpha to the fleet. Njord Offshore has worked with Damen to create an optimised vessel to suit its needs, making minor changes to the standard design to improve comfort, efficiency and safety. The vessel is desi
Norway-based boat handling system and specialised davit supplier Vestdavit has been contracted by French shipyard Socarenam to supply the davits for a new 50 m patrol boat which it will build for the French customs. Vestdavit will supply two davits, one PAP6000 and one PAP3250 davit which will give
First Jack-Up Vessel Built in Germany for Offshore Wind Farms Leaves Sietas Shipyard It is a first in the German shipbuilding industry: The “Aeolus”, the first jack-up vessel for offshore wind farms designed and built in Germany, which was constructed at Sietas Shipyard for the prestigious Dutch mar
Vroon has taken delivery of MV Gelbray Express, the third of six livestock carriers being constructed at Cosco Guangdong Shipyard. The remaining three vessels are scheduled for delivery to the company in May 2014 and the second half of 2015. These livestock carriers are “next‑generation” livestock v
The new Wärtsilä slop water treatment system has been ordered for an ultra-deep water drillship operating in the Gulf of Mexico. The order is the first for the new system, which enhances Wärtsilä’s position as the marine industry’s leading provider of innovative products, solutions and services. The
Diana Shipping Inc. has taken delivery of the newly built m/v “Crystalia”, an Ice Class Panamax dry bulk vessel of 77,525 dwt that was contracted in March 2012. As previously announced, the m/v “Crystalia” is time chartered to Glencore Grain B.V., Rotterdam, at a gross charter rate of US$15,800 per
In January 2014, Mojo Maritime, the British marine renewable energy specialists, and Hammonia Reederei, a German ship owner based in Hamburg, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to finance and build the “High Flow Installation Vessel” (HF 4). With its ability to operate in currents up to ten knots
Sigmund Borgundvaag, a ship designer at Rolls-Royce, has won a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the design of offshore support vessels for more than 40 years. Sigmund designed the very first Rolls-Royce UT Design vessel, back in 1974, a design that has influenced the industry stand
IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel SAPURA TOPÁZIO in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming of the fully integrated IHC Merwede vessel was carried out by Puan Sri Datin Seri Yazreen Yahya, spouse of Tan Sri Dato’
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder, has held a naming ceremony for the world’s first newbuilding LNG floating storage regasification unit (LNG FSRU), ordered from Höegh LNG in June 2011. The 170,000 cbm LNG FSRU, measuring 294 m in length, 46 m in width and 26
Kelvin Hughes, a global supplier of surveillance and navigation systems, revealed that they have recently supplied two SharpEyeTM Solid State X Band surveillance radars to the Maryland Natural Resources Police (MPRP), to provide additional coverage around protected oyster beds. The SharpEyeTM radars
It is a first in the German shipbuilding industry: The “Aeolus”, the first jack-up vessel for offshore wind farms designed and built in Germany, which was constructed at Sietas Shipyard for the prestigious Dutch marine engineering company Van Oord, has left the shipyard. Having passed through the Es
