For the third time in a row Jan de Nul Dredging chooses No Limit Ships Shipyards. After first having bought two survey vessels, they now opted for a No Limit 1640 Crewtender with thirteen passenger seats. For the next five years the vessel is expected to be deployed for various projects in European
The new vessel Olympic Taurus has been delivered to Olympic Shipping AS from Kleven Verft AS, the company informed. Olympic Taurus will after delivery sail to Oslo for the vessel’s naming ceremony. Olympic Taurus is a Multipurpose Offshore Vessel with diesel electric propulsion, low fuel consumption
Klaipeda University and “Western Baltija Shipbuilding” signed an agreement on the design and construction of a new research vessel. “Today is a historic day. A process, which started about four years ago, became a reality today. There are no higher level schools in Lithuania which have constructed a
The offers for the purchase of Peene Shipyard are expected to arrive by the end of November. The Swedish coast guard has concluded a new agreement with the insolvency administrator of P+S WERFTEN, Berthold Brinkmann. This means that both coast guard ships ordered from the Peene shipyard can now be c
Arnout Damen, COO of Damen Shipyards Group, officially opened a new office in Norwegian Stavanger on 16 November 2012. When asked why Dutch headquartered Damen Shipyards sets up an advanced base in Stavanger, its new Sales Manager Remko Hottentot said: “It is the European Oil & Gas capital and the p
BMT Nigel Gee Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, announces that three new Windfarm Support Vessels built to a BMT design have been launched over a period of ten days from three different shipyards, two in Europe
The Spanish tug company, Remolcadores Ibaizabal has taken delivery of two new AVT 36/70E Escort tugs from the drawing board of Robert Allan Ltd. The tugs were constructed by Astilleros Armon in Navia, Spain. The design features a full raised forecastle running nearly half the length of the tug to pr
Subsea 7 has signed a contract to build a new Dive Support Vessel (DSV). The new vessel will be delivered in 2015. This state-of-the-art vessel will be built by Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), one of the world’s largest ship building companies. The vessel will reinforce our leading di
Representatives of POLSTEAM and Polish Register of Shipping met in the Polish Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy on 21 November 2012 to sign an agreement on PRS supervision of four big bulk carriers constructed for POLSTEAM by the Japanese shipyard Tsuneishi. The Shipowner deci
Keppel FELS Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, has been selected by Ukraine’s National Joint-Stock Company, Naftogaz, as the winner of a tender to construct two semisubmersible (semi) drilling rigs and will be entering into further contract negotiations with Naftogaz
Naming ceremony of the first ship in the series of dual RS/ABS class bulk carriers for OAO NOVOSHIP was held on 19 November, 2012 at the shipyard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co Ltd, Republic of Korea. The ship was named NS ENERGY. Main particulars: length – 225 m width – 32.25 m freeboard depth – [&hellip
Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG is experiencing another end-of-year rush – but that’s regularly par for the course at the German shipyard. Three big cruise ships are in Bremerhaven in the coming days and weeks to be spruced up for the 2013 cruise season. They are the MS “Braemar” and the MS “Balmoral”, b
SinOceanic Shipping ASA’s 100% subsidiary SinOceanic III AS (SinOceanic) owning the TEU 13.100 container vessel “MSC Regulus”, partly financed the vessel by a USD 100 million senior secured loan with a tenor of one year with an option for SinOceanic to extend for one year. The loan carries an intere
Western Baltija Shipbuilding has delivered a hull of fishing trawler ROGNE to the Danish company Karstensens Skibsværft A/S on November 13th. Length of the trawler hull is 69.9 m, breadth – 14.2 m, draught – 4.9 m, speed – 16.5 knots, maximum number of crew – 12 people. This vessel is analogous to a
