Clipper has taken delivery of the fourth Bari-Star design handysize vessel from Imabari Shipyard. The 38,000 dwt Clipper Bliss joined her sisters Clipper Bari-Star, Clipper Bettina and Clipper Belle in company’s significant handysize fleet of about 70 controlled vessels. Clipper Bliss represents the
Rolls-Royce has won an order to provide integrated design and ship equipment for a highly innovative offshore vessel for Norwegian ship owner Island Offshore. The new striking UT 777 design has been developed in close cooperation with Island Offshore, to be used in offshore drilling operations durin
The Damen 67m SEA AXE, 6711 performed flawlessly during its sea trials in Holland reaching speeds over 22 knots. Due for delivery ahead of schedule in January 2014, 6711 has been configured with an extensive dive centre, including its own decompression chamber. Deck space, excluding fully certified
The hull of BN 169, a large and advanced offshore vessel being built for North Sea Shipping ASBN arrived in Bergen yesterday, January 23rd. The hull has been constructed at the Daewoo-yard in Romania. The vessel will be completed and delivered in July 2014. The advanced offshore vessel has a length
On 9 January, TGE Marine Gas Engineering signed the contracts for one firm and three optional vessels for the design and supply of the cargo handling systems, high pressure fuel gas systems including LNG fuel tanks and tank material packages for the next generation of ethane/ethylene carriers of 35,
On Thursday 23 January, the 5,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger, DCI DREDGE XXI, was handed over within the contractual delivery date to Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) at IHC Merwede’s Kinderdijk shipyard in The Netherlands. The Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance was signed on behalf of DC
Maersk Drilling’s second and third ultra deepwater drillships were named Thursday morning in a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea. Lisa Lance, wife of Ryan M. Lance, chairman and chief executive officer, ConocoPhillips, had the honour of naming Maer
The keel laying of the world’s first LNG Hybrid Barge took place at a ceremony held at the ”SAM Shipbuilding & Machinery“ shipyard in Komárno, Slovakia in the second week of the new year. In the presence of representatives of the shipyard, AIDA Cruises, Becker Marine Systems and Hybrid Port Energy (
Bocimar recently expanded its fleet with five newbuilding Capesize units that will all be built by Imabari (Japan). It concerns four 206.000 dwt units: two fully-owned scheduled for delivery in the first and second quarters of 2016 and two ships taken on time charter for a period of ten years schedu
Karstensen Shipyard recently won an order for an 87.8 m Purser / Trawler to be built for the fishing company Ruth Ltd. The newbuild, bearing the Yard No. 429, is a result of an extensive and close cooperation between owners and the yard. Like the other vessels, currently under construction at the sh
Kleven has signed a contract with Rem Offshore for the building of a PSV specially designed to operate in challenging arctic conditions. The type VS 485 MK III ARCTIC design includes a number of features for ice prevention and de-icing, and hull and propulsion systems will have ICE-1B class. “We hig
Royal Dutch Boskalis named its OSD-designed multi-functional vessels the NDURANCE and the NDEAVOR last week at the Keppel shipyard in Singapore, Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) said via social media platforms. The vessels, 99-meter long and 30-meter wide each, have been built at Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy
GTT membrane technology has been selected by STX France to fit out PEGASIS (Power Efficient GAS Innovative Ship), the new environmental ferry propelled with LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), ordered by Brittany Ferries. This innovative vessel will use GTT Mark III insulation system and will be built in S
Arctech Helsinki Shipyard will build the new icebreaker for the Finnish Transport Agency. The Finnish Transport Agency informed about the results of the tendering process on the 22nd of January 2014. The Finnish Transport Agency procures a new icebreaker to renew the aging fleet of state-owned icebr
