The Baie St. Paul, Canada Steamship Lines’ (CSL) first of four new Trillium Class self-unloading Lakers was honoured last evening with the prestigious 2012 Bulk Ship of the Year Award at the International Bulk Journal (IBJ) Gala dinner held in Hamburg, Germany. Presented to the year’s most outstandi
TTS Group ASA has through its subsidiary TTS Offshore Handling Equipment AS signed a contract worth approximately NOK 130 million (approx. $22,6 million) in Korea. The contract is with STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd in Korea and concerns delivery of four large offshore cranes and equipment for
On the 14th of November 2012, Hvide Sande Skibs- & Baadbyggeri delivered a 50m ferry to Swedish domestic ferry company Ven-Trafiken. The vessel, named Uraniborg, will be operating between Landskrona in Sweden and the Swedish island Hven in the Øresund. Knud E. Hansen A/S has been responsible for the
A ceremony was held at the site of Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Association due to the completion of fabrication of the fixed platform for Zhdanov oil field being under development in the shelf area of Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan Governor Alexander Zhilkin, representatives of the
On the 7th of December 2012 the naming ceremony of Anthony Veder’s new LNG carrier takes place at the Cruise Terminal in Rotterdam. The Coral Energy is world’s first direct driven dual-fuel ice class 1A LNG carrier. The development of the Coral Energy started in 2010 in close cooperation with Norweg
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Cryonorm Systems receives order to install the LNG fuel system on two gas carriers for Anthony Veder. The order consists of a turn key LNG fuel system for two gas tankers. Cryonorm Systems will engineer, produce and supervise the installation of the LNG system. Anthony Veder and Cryonorm Systems rea
A new Finnish Border Guard patrol vessel will be installed with box cooler anti-fouling systems designed as the result of collaboration between Blokland Non-Ferro and Cathelco Ltd. The 96 metre vessel is under construction at the STX Finland Oy’s Rauma shipyard with delivery scheduled for November 2
A&P Falmouth is soon to drydock the Condor Express, one of the aluminium fast cats operated by Condor Ferries. Falmouth regularly drydocks the conventional Condor ferries, Condor Clipper and Condor Goodwill, but will now also see the aluminium catamaran Condor Express arrive for drydocking during No
A survey conducted by NAPA Group, the leading software house for ship design and operations, into preparation levels for the upcoming IMO ship energy efficiency management plan (SEEMP) has revealed that a majority of respondents were unaware of scope of potential fuel savings the plan could trigger.
DUNCAN, the sixth and final Type 45 destroyer built by BAE Systems, set sail on November 16 from the company’s Scotstoun shipyard on the Clyde to embark on her second stage sea trials off the west coast of Scotland. During the next 19 days at sea, DUNCAN will undertake an extensive programme of tria
Marin Teknikk AS has signed a contract for design and engineering of a new Subsea Support & Construction vessel for Otto Candies LLC in Des Allemands, Louisiana, USA. The vessel will be built on the owner’s private shipyard, Candies Shipbuilders. The ship is a new design from Marin Teknikk called MT
BAE Systems announced on Thursday that it has entered into a definitive agreement with American Maritime Holdings, Inc. to acquire Marine Hydraulics International, Inc. (“MHI”), a privately held company that operates a shipyard, pier and waterfront facilities in Norfolk, Virginia. The proposed acqui
Navantia received, on 15th. November, the first Algerian Navy ship for its repairing and modernization. The contract for the reparation and modernization of the two units came in force last 25th July. With the arrival of this ship to Reparaciones Fene-Ferrol facilities, Navantia Reparaciones will st
