Inocean has developed an Arctic Drillship – based on the companies’ modern and effective INO-80 concept. The new unit has been named IN-ICE. The ship is completely enclosed and winterized, is environmentally friendly, and has enhanced logistics/ storage facilities. The ice class is for a substantial
Statoil and its partners Total and Det norske have awarded DSME a contract to build the topsides for the Dagny platform, with Aker Solutions as a major sub-contractor. The total contract value is estimated to NOK 6.1 billion. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has been assigned to desig
Recently Nupas-Cadmatic signed a major contract with Russian design office OJSC Vympel Ltd. Vympel chose to extend their CAD/CAM with Nupas-Cadmatic in order to cope with increased demand for complex designs and tight schedules . Vympel’s working methods are integrated with the international shipbui
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewables industry, announced the successful completion of construction of the wind turbine installation vessel, Windcarrier 2 “Bold Tern”. Having resolved all outstanding comm
Songa Offshore SE announced that Songa Trym has now received its AOC diploma and additional work and client acceptance testing of Songa Trym is now completed. As of today, Songa Trym will be on stand-by rate while Statoil undertakes planned upgrade of the mud system. The rig will thereafter enter in
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced that the Nave Rigel, a new building LR1 product tanker vessel of 74,673 dwt, was delivered on February 13, 2013 from a South Korean shipyard. Nave Rigel has been chartered out to a high quality counterparty f
Hotchya Marine Design signed a contract with the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the development of the initial design requirements and the conceptual design of Mezhdunarodny, a large research vessel intended for fish stock assessment research in the global ocean. In accordance with the design re
Update on Emma Maersk Incident (Egypt) On 1 February 2013, Emma Maersk, Maersk Line’s largest container vessel, experienced ingress of water into the engine room. The vessel had just commenced its southbound transit through the Suez Canal en route to Asia. The captain decided to terminate the planne
REMONTOWA SHIPBUILDING S.A. has launched the next generation Platform Supply Vessel (PSV), designed for one of the largest ship-owners operating Offshore Support Vessels in the North Sea. Deck area of more than 800 sq. m., 4100 t cargo capacity and speed of 14.3 knots rank this unit among the larg
Installing tidal energy devices is both costly and technically challenging, but a new Dynamic Positioning (DP) flat-top barge could be the answer that the industry has been waiting for. Adding DP capability to a versatile flat-top barge offers a real cost effective tidal energy installation solution
Today, all conditions have been met for the two newbuilding contracts between DFDS and the German shipyard P+S Werften GmbH, Stralsund, concerning the construction of two freight ships (ro-ro). The newbuildings form part of DFDS’ cooperation with the Danish defence, and since 2006 also with the Germ
The 23m Macduff designed tug named ‘Ayten Cebi’ recently completed its sea trials. Built by Torgem in Tuzla, Turkey the vessel ran successful trials, with a free running speed of 11.7 knots and average bollard pull of 35 tonnes the vessel has surpassed her contract conditions. The vessel comes as a
EXMAR NV announced that together with TEEKAY LNG PARTNERS L.P. they have successfully closed their 50/50 LPG joint-venture. The EXMAR LPG BVBA joint-venture controls 15 owned Midsize Gas Carriers (MGC), out of which 4 are currently under construction at Hyundai Mipo, and one owned Very Large Gas Car
Becker Marine Systems continues to focus on energy savings. The new product innovation for container ships and other fast vessels was developed with the combined expertise acquired from Becker rudders for fast ships and the Becker Mewis Duct® for slower vessels. Becker Marine Systems continues to of