The Spanish Association of Naval and Oceanic Engineers just named ESVAGT AURORA as the Best Spanish Built Ship in 2012. The owner is Esvagt AS, company belonging to the Danish multinational A.P. Møller-Mærsk. The main missions of the vessel include providing stand-by assistance in emergency situatio
Damen Shipyards Group, a worldwide shipbuilder with forty self-managed shipyards, has launched IFS’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at its Romanian branch in Galati. The IFS 7.5 go-live at the start of this week follows the system’s earlier implementation at Damen’s headquarters in Gorinc
TTS Group ASA has through its subsidiary TTS Offshore Handling Equipment AS (OHE) in Norway signed a contract for delivery of two offshore cranes worth approximately 50 MNOK (approx. USD 8.4 million). The contract is with a shipyard in China, and concerns delivery of two cranes for an offshore vesse
South Boats Isle Of Wight, the UK’s class-leading manufacturer of offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels, has launched its latest 24-metre DNV-class certified workboat. The vessel, that was officially named Iceni Victory earlier this morning, will now begin extensive sea trials before being formal
China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Limited, a large heavy industries group in China, announced the delivery of its 380,000 DWT class Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) “VALE CAOFEIDIAN” to Vale S.A. (Vale) today. The vessel is the fourth 380,000 DWT class VLOC delivered by the Group this yea
Rafał Baniak, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Treasury, participated in the away meeting of the Treasury Commission at the Lotos Group on July 17, 2013. The visit to Pomerania was, above all, an opportunity to review the situation of the shipbuilding industry. Deputy Minister Baniak visit
On July 19th, 2013, Delivery-Acceptance act for the second multipurpose salvage vessel of MPSV07 project “SPASATEL KAVDEJKIN” was signed. The vessel was built at Nevsky Shipyard. The owner of the vessel is The Direction of State Contractor of Marine Transport Development Program of Federal Marine an
Seadrill Limited (Seadrill) has signed a contract with Chevron China Energy Company for the newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship West Tellus in support of Chevron’s affiliated global exploration program. The contract commences in China immediately upon shipyard delivery and thereafter relocates to Lib
Fire Onboard MV ‘HANSA BRANDENBURG’ Shipmanagement Company Leonhardt & Blumberg Hamburg, Germany reports that on July 15 2013 a cargo container caught fire onboard MV “HANSA BRANDENBURG” container ship, during her voyage from Singapore to Durban about 200 nautical miles northeast of Mauritius. Manni
The keel, which is the first part of the boat to be built, was unveiled at a ceremony at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness by Defence Minister Philip Dunne yesterday, 18 July. It comes as MOD announces that the first 2 of the 7 Astute Class submarines, HMS Astute and HMS Ambush, are nearing
Bergen Group ASA has today entered into a Share Purchase Agreement for the group’s Shipbuilding Division with JSV Zaliv Shipyard, Ukraine, one of the leading hull construction shipyards in Central and Eastern Europe. For a purchase price of USD 18.2 million, Zaliv will acquire 51% of the shares in a
In 2012 and also this year, Carnival Cruises docked two of its globally operating fleet of luxury liners – “Queen Victoria” and “AIDAbella” – at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG. Now the traditional Bremerhaven facility has landed yet another attractive repair and conversion contract from the same group.
June saw more enquiries than May, and more were converted into fixtures, but Drewry’s LNG freight index was stubbornly unchanged according to the latest LNG Insight. However, market sentiment remains positive as Cheniere took three vessels on mid-term charter, plus options. One vessel from Dynacom w
Gudrun sailed away from the yard in Haugesund on Wednesday afternoon, July 17. Now she is well on her way to the field where the jacket has been awaiting her since last summer. It is an approximately 24 hour long journey to the field location. “After two years of hard work, dedicated commitment and
