Last week the enormous Gudrun platform was moved out of the North Sea Hall at Risøy. This marks a new and important milestone for Aibel’s prestigious new structure. The platform is mechanically complete, and only testing and finishing work remains before sailing into the North Sea on 11 July. 1,700
The German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz reports a number of contract awards for the delivery of integrated bridge systems to newbuilt vessels for offshore operations. Raytheon Anschütz Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Anschütz, will deliver the bridge navigation s
Environmental Protection Engineering S.A.(E.P.E.) has become the first Greek company to obtain certification from classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) as a certified provider of Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM) services. E.P.E. becomes one of only a handful of companies worldwide tha
TTS Group ASA has through its subsidiaries TTS Offshore Handling Equipment AS (OHE) in Norway and TTS Neuenfelder Maschinenfabrik GmbH (NMF) in Germany signed a contract for delivery of two offshore cranes worth approximately 50 MNOK. The contract is with COSCO Qidong Offshore co., Ltd shipyard in C
On 19th April 2013, Jiangsu Hantong signed a contract with Peter DÖhle in Wenjing International Hotel regarding the order of 3+2 SDARI design 38,800 DWT bulk carriers. These vessels will be delivered from the second quarter of 2015. Vessels belonging to the 38,800 DWT BC and 64,000DWT BC series will
Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. – Philippines (HHIC-Phil Inc.) has reached yet another milestone when it held the simultaneous unveiling of two newly-built bulk carriers in its modern 30-hectare shipyard in Redondo Peninsula on Tuesday, April 16th. The vessels, named after famous ex
Desgagnés and its subsidiary Relais Nordik conducted on April 19, at the Port of Sept-Îles, the christening of the M/V Bella Desgagnés, a new vessel specially designed for and dedicated to the maritime service of Anticosti Island and the Lower North Shore. This event was held in the presence of many
VIDEO: Royal Caribbean Unveils First Details of New Quantum-Class Building on a legacy of more than 40 years of innovation and creative design, Royal Caribbean International yesterday unveiled first details of the next generation of cruise vacations – Quantum cruising. South Korea: SHI Signs Shipbui
Today early in the morning, the mighty lift gate of ship assembly hall 290 at the Volkswerft shipyard in Stralsund (Germany) opened for the roll-out of the first of two RoRo special ships for the Danish shipping company DFDS. The construction phase “ship hull assembly” of the new vessel with the shi
DSME’s affiliate Daewoo-Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI) from Romania has won a contract to build four LR2 product carriers for Greek-based Eastern Mediterranean Maritime. As TradeWinds reports, Thanassis Martinos of Eastern Mediterranean Maritime confirmed the deal for the four vessels with deliver
Following a six-year acquisition program, the Government of the Bahamas has announced the signing of a Letter of Intent to acquire 9 vessels for the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. The contract has been placed with Damen Shipyards Group, headquartered in Gorinchem, the Netherlands. In announcing the co
Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology in the Netherlands has received the order to supply and install the electrical installations on four newly built multipurpose heavy lift vessels. The Groningen yard Shipkits, part of the Centraal Steel group, is building the vessels for the Daniel Hartman shipping comp
Multraship, a towage and salvage specialist has continued its fleet renewal programme with confirmation that it has bought two new Damen ASD 2810-type tugs with state-of-the-art FiFi 1 firefighting capabilities. The tugs, to be named Multratug 26 and Multratug 27, are building in Romania for deliver
Noble Corporation today announced that the Company has entered into two three-year term drilling contracts with Plains Exploration & Production Company for the Noble Sam Croft and the Noble Tom Madden, two of Noble’s new ultra-deepwater drillships currently under construction at the Hyundai Heavy In
