On behalf of the insolvency administrator of P+S WERFTEN the following statement has been released: The signed order for two RoRo special vessels for the Danish shipping company DFDS is now in the hands of the insolvency administrator and is subject to various conditions. As the insolvency administr
The European Union will co-finance with over €250,000 from the TEN-T Programme a project to convert an existing vessel into a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunkering ship so that it may be used to refuel other ships. The project, which takes place in the Port of Stockholm and contributes to the realis
BW has signed a ship-building contract with Samsung Heavy Industries for BW’s first Liquefied Natural Gas Floating Storage Regasification Unit (LNG-FSRU). Expected to be delivered in 2015, it will be the latest addition to BW Maritime’s fleet of 16 LNG carriers, building on and increasing the Compan
Together with partners White Smoke Shipping has developed the WS3 project. The vessel is designed for the growing LNG bunkering market of the North European ECA with special focus on the Baltic sea. The WS3 project is developed together with Delta Marine and Omega Marine of Turkey as well as Frederi
The Suezmax tanker AST Sunshine was named yesterday at a ceremony at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in Geoje, South Korea. The vessel is owned by Stena Bulk and Japanese Asahi Tankers, each with 50 percent, in the joint venture Asahi Stena Tankers. The tanker is a third generation, fuel-efficient Su
Deltamarin Ltd has been retained to become the designer for five 38,000 deadweight ton (dwt) stainless steel parcel chemical tankers for Stolt Nielsen Ship Finance Ltd, a subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen Limited, to be built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. Ltd. in China. The design contract i
With the heightened expectations of stakeholders in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon incident, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has listened to its drilling operator clients and designed a new generation of drillship. The new 80k class, heavy duty, wide beam drillship design, HD12000, can drill
STX OSV Holdings Limited (“STX OSV”), one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announced that Tidewater Inc. (“Tidewater”) has acquired contracts for three Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) under construction at STX OSV in Norway. STX OSV had originally se
On Thursday 10 January 2013, STX Finland Oy’s Turku shipyard delivered a next-generation cruise ferry to Viking Line ABP. Building of the environmentally friendly M/S Viking Grace started at the STX Turku shipyard in September 2011 and the ship was floated out in August 2012. The ship provided some
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced that COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered a bulk carrier of 57000DWT, “KLIMA”, to its European buyer. The delivery documents were signed by a
SKF Group announced they have signed an agreement to acquire German-based ship components provider Blohm + Voss Industries (BVI) from Star Capital Partners. SKF will pay EUR 80 Mln for 100% of the equity of BVI and assumes net loans/cash of EUR 18 Mln . The transaction is subject to relevant regulat
Golden Union, a Greek company specialized in sea transportation of dry cargo, has placed an order for an eco-friendly bulk carrier with COSCO, Shipping Herald reports. With this order Golden Union becomes a part of the “Clean Sky” initiative which is launched in 2011 within Greek – Chinese maritime
Dwarfing the mother of all parliaments, this is how the nation’s future flagship would look if you could sail her up the Thames to the Palace of Westminster. Thanks to the team behind the 65,000-tonne leviathan, we can give you a sense of scale of the largest warships ever built for the Royal Navy,
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured an order from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd, in China, for 16 variable frequency drive (VFD) electric cranes. They have been specified for four 3,900 TEU container vessels being constructed for Singapore-based Pacific International Lines (PIL). The orde
