The keel of the offshore patrol vessel being built for the Finnish Border Guard was laid, on Monday 25 February 2013, at STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard. The event was witnessed by representatives of STX Finland, Finnish Border Guard, classification society and media. Scheduled for delivery in Novem
The month of January 2013 has again been a very busy month for A&P NE On the Tyne there have been a number of dockings / undocking’s:- Longstone (Andrew Weir Shipping) – undocked early January after an intensive 12 day programme overhauling the stern ramp, vent fans and sea valves. The ship sailed a
The innovation house, Supacat, has awarded the build contract to Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd for a new concept offshore support vessel, the Supacat Multi-purpose Vessel 24. The first boat will be built at Mustang Marine’s Pembroke Dock facility and is scheduled for launch in August this year. To deve
A series of vessels designed to operate in complete safety at depths of 3000 meters. The first two sisterships already operate in West Africa. Resource exploration is going into increasingly deep waters and the new milestone for oil and gas marine industry operations is now at 2,500 to 3,000 meters.
Damen Shipyards Group and ShipConstructor representative CADMatch will speak about challenges and solutions involving Concurrent Engineering at the CADMatch Maritime Days Conference, March 20, 2013. Concurrent Engineering is critical due to tight deadlines and rising customer expectations; engineeri
Strategic Marine, the leading specialist shipbuilder operating in Singapore and Vietnam, today delivered the Njord Curlew, a high-grade crew transfer and service vessel for Njord Offshore, the UK fleet operator specialising in supply services for the growing offshore windfarm sector. Today’s deliver
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been contracted by the Korean yard STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, to supply exhaust gas cleaning systems for four new Container Ro/Ro (ConRo) vessels being built for Ignazio Messina & Co, the Italy based ship owner and operat
Arctic shuttle tanker SCF Timofey Guzhenko, currently engaged in work on the Varandey project, bears the name of this great Russian statesman. 15 February marked 95 years since the birth of Timofey Guzhenko – a prominent Russian statesman who made a significant contribution to the historical develop
Leading manufacturer of major maritime projects, Nordic Yards, has signed a contract to construct an offshore transformer platform. The client, Alstom, with whom Nordic Yards will be working for the first time, was awarded the tender by transmission grid operator TenneT Offshore GmbH. DolWin gamma i
Fiskerstrand BLRT AS and the ship owner Egil Ulvan Rederi AS have signed contracts for delivery of two advanced LNG-gas powered fish feed vessels. The concept is developed by Multi Maritime AS in close cooperation with Egil Ulvan Rederi AS, based on functional requirements from Marine Harvest ASA. T
Super tug Fairmount Alpine has delivered the container vessel Emma Maersk, one of the largest container carriers of its kind, at Fincantieri’s repair yard in Palermo, Sicily. To tow the 398 meter long 156,907 DWT Emma Maersk towards Palermo Fairmount Marine was contracted by Maersk Line. Tug Fairmou
The delivery of “Jolly Quarzo” has taken place on February 21st at the Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering shipyard. The Industrial Plan, that will lead Messina shipping Group to enlarge its fleet by four 3900 teu or 6350 linear meter new ro-ro containerships the largest of this kind eve
On Friday the brand new Damen Stan Pontoon 9127 (SPo 9127) arrived at the EDT base in Limassol, Cyprus. The ‘EDT REGAS’ was delivered from stock with a delivery time of 2 weeks after the contract. The SPo 9127 has a length of 91,5, a beam of 27,4 and a height of 6,1 metres. It […]
On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 the 145,000 gt cruise ship Norwegian BREAKAWAY, whose construction has taken merely 17 months, will float out of MEYER WERFT’s covered building dock II. Over the last few weeks the shipyard has been busy conducting extensive tests and machinery trials. The float-out of t
