STX OSV Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announced that it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of one Offshore Subsea Construction Vessel for DOF Subsea. The vessel will be of OSCV 12 design, developed by
STX OSV Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announced that it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of one Offshore Subsea Construction Vessel (“OSCV”) for Farstad Shipping. This newbuilding, designed for subs
The most iconic section of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Forward Island containing the bridge, begun her delivery journey from the dock hall on HM Naval Base Portsmouth where the first steel was cut just 70 weeks ago. After leaving the dock hall’s basin and passing through a lock, the Forward Island paus
Femco Group, in frame of their program of fleet renewal and further market expanding, has placed an order to build 4 anchor- handling tug supply vessels (AHTS) by Sinopacific. The vessels will be built at Dayang shipyard in China owned by Sinopacific which is the world’s biggest supplier of offshore
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) has entered into a new contract with STX OSV AS for building of a construction service vessel (CSV) of type OSCV 03. The vessel’s contract value is around NOK 600 million (approx. USD 109 million) and she will be delivered during 2nd quarter 2014. SOFF has signed a 5 year
Italian Visemar has placed an order with the Cantiere Navale Visentini yard, near Venice, for a RoRo ship. The vessel will be powered by a complete MAN propulsion package featuring 2 × 9L32/44CR medium-speed engines. The 9L32/44CR engines each develop 5,040 kW at 750 rpm and are complemented by 2 ×
GC Rieber Shipping has entered into an agreement with Kleven Verft to build a new 22 streamer 3D seismic vessel with ice-class 1A*. The seismic company Dolphin Geophysical has contracted the vessel for a fixed period of five years, and the high end vessel will enter this contract directly upon deliv
IHC Merwede has successfully launched the first IHC Beaver® 65 DDSP at the company’s Sliedrecht shipyard in The Netherlands. The successor to the highly successful IHC Beaver® 6518 is part of the renowned IHC Beaver® series of standard cutter suction dredgers. The new vessel has been designed with a
Teekay LNG Partners has ordered two 173,400m3 LNG carriers from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Korea. The vessels will each have two MAN Diesel & Turbo ME-GI dual-fuel, ultra long two-stroke gas injection engines. These engines received DNV type approval in 2010 and their use as part of
Wilh. Wilhelmsen group operated Mark V class vessels are the most sophisticated vessels ever built in the roll-on roll-off segment. The Mark V class vessels are the largest of its kind, with a length of 265 metres, offering a cargo volume of 138,000 cubic metres over six fixed and three hoistable de
Technomar, a shipping company based in Greece, has ordered a pair of containerships from Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction shipyard in the Subic Bay, the Philippines, SeaShipNews reports. The order for 6,900 teu vessels comes with an option for two more of the same type. Allegedly, the vessels
Croatian based shipbuilder 3. MAJ held a spectacular launching ceremony, on Feb. 11th, for the last in a series of four tankers the shipbuilder is building for the Swedish company WISBY TANKERS. The vessel named Palanca Singapore (Yard No. 719) was launched from the shipyard’s slipway N0.1. The tank
NYK Group is targeting the achievement of “zero emissions” by 2050 and has designed the concept ship NYK Super Eco Ship 2030 as a milestone for 2030. The idea behind the concept is not only to make it clear what the industry needs to develop technically in the long term, but also to lead the [&helli
Toisa Ltd. signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of a Multipurpose Offshore Construction Vessel (MOCV) designed by Dutch design office Ulstein Sea of Solutions. The DNV classed vessel is a customized version of Ulstein’s Deepwater Enabler design. The DP3 vessel i
