The Board of Directors of Vard Holdings Limited announced that pursuant to the rationalization of operations in Romania, Vard Piping SRL’s pipe fabrication business was integrated in the Tulcea Shipyard and its engineering division was transferred to Vard Engineering Constanta SRL, a newly incorpora
DCNS shipyard in Saint-Nazaire recently held a launching ceremony for Russia’s first Mistral-class helicopter carrier named Vladivostok. The vessel will receive its additional Russian systems at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg, and then be handed over to Russia’s Pacific Fleet in Novem
Navios Maritime Partners L.P. an owner and operator of dry cargo vessels, announced yesterday that the Navios Harmony, a 2006-built panamax vessel of 82,790 dwt, was delivered to Navios Partners’ owned fleet on October 11, 2013. The Navios Harmony has been chartered out to a high quality counterpart
Rolls-Royce has won an order to provide an integrated design and equipment package for two offshore supply vessels to be built at COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd in China for the Singapore based Chellsea Group, an ambitious and quality conscious player in the offshore oilfield services industry.
CTruk scored a hat-trick with the delivery of its 12th 20T multi-purpose catamaran, CWind Challenger. As well as being the first of these popular offshore wind support vessels to be designed, built and classed to Bureau Veritas (BV) rules, the 18.5m multi-role workboat is also the first Category 1 v
Volstad Maritime & Bergen Group have returned to PG Marine again to order extensive utility- and engine room- pump-packages for their new Offshore Construction Vessel. The vessel, of Skipsteknisk design ST-259 CD, is purpose built Offshore Construction Vessel (OCV) / ROV / under construction at Berg
The charter demand for the latest generation of offshore wind farm Personnel Transport Vessels [PTVs] from Tidal Transit Limited has enabled this young North Norfolk company to commission the construction of a fourth vessel with Spanish boat builder Mercurio Plastics. Kitty Petra will be constructed
Osiris Projects, part of Bibby Marine Survey Services, yesterday announced building has commenced on a sister ship to Bibby Tethra, named Bibby Athena, to be launched in winter 2014. The vessel will mirror the capabilities of Bibby Tethra with a few subtle changes to reflect the company’s developmen
Imagine holding a 100-meter long, subsea construction vessel in position as it lowers with its 250-ton crane, heavy subsea modules to the seabed. GE’s Power Conversion takes the guess work out of complex dynamic positioning (DP) operations with its advanced human-machine interface (HMI) and returns
MacArtney has recently delivered a customised CORMAC 5 stainless steel electrical winch coupled with an EdgeTech 4200 Side Scan Sonar system to STX Finland. Next generation winch for a next generation offshore patrol vessel Back in December 2011, STX Finland and the Finnish Border Guard signed an ag
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order for two MacGregor active heave-compensated (AHC) offshore cranes from a Turkish shipyard for a new subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) and construction vessel for a Norwegian owner. A 250-tonne and a 15-tonne MacGregor subsea crane will
NDM has signed new contracts with VARD Group for supply of deck machinery for two Pipe Lay Support Vessels (PLSVs) of VARD 3 16 design. The vesselse will be built by VARD Promar in Brasil and delivered to DOF/Technip in Q4 2016 (EP09) and Q2 2017 (EP10). For these vessels NDM will supply the followi
Everything is falling into place at the exhibition floor of the 6th edition of the Offshore Energy event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as the exhibitors put the final touches on their stands. Over 500 offshore companies will be showcasing their latest developments and products in three exhibition ha
With the development and creation of the MPV 500, the maritime engineering specialist HeavyLift@Sea, with headquarters in Hamburg’s HafenCity, has now expanded its design family of extremely versatile heavy lifters. The multi-purpose vessel is based on the HLV 1600 heavy lifter, which was introduced
