Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a £12 million order to design and equip two platform supply vessels (PSVs). The vessels will be built at Jiangsu Eastern Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. in China. Rolls-Royce UT 755 LN vessels are designed specifically for transporting solid and liqu
QGOG Constellation S.A. announced today that on November 14 it exercised, through one of its affiliates, an option for an advanced-capability DP3 ultra-deepwater drillship to be constructed by Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. This will be the third drillship with SHI in South Korea and is scheduled
Consilium is now launching the new flexible and user-friendly gas detection system Salwico GDS. Salwico GDS is designed and developed to meet the demands of the customers as well as the regulatory requirements from SOLAS, the majority of Classification societies and the EC (European Community) rules
Blue Ship Invest, a wholly-owned company in Ulstein Group, has entered into an agreement with Atlantic Offshore on management of the third out of six platform supply vessel of ULSTEIN’s PX121 type design. Currently under construction at Ulstein Verft, the vessel is scheduled for delivery in February
Shipham Valves, a subsidiary of Wärtsilä, has completed the development programme for a new range of composite single plate wafer check valves, which will be introduced to the market place at the Valve World Exhibition to be held in Düsseldorf at the end of November. Available in sizes from 3” – 12”
JES International Holdings Limited, further to the Company’s announcement on 8 October 2012 and 30 October 2012 relating to contracts won for four UT 755 LN PSVs in total, has entered into the option agreement to build another four UT 755 LN platform supply vessels (PSVs) for the same Norwegian cust
In the past week shipbuilding industry recorded 13 orders, according to Fearnleys Weekly report. Three of four contracts have been assigned to Chinese shipyards and one went to Korea. Norwegian-Bermudean shipping company Stolt-Nielsen awarded CSSC Hudong shipyard with a contract for four 38,000 dwt
Due to continuous delays in the construction and delivery of two long term charter vessels originally to be built at Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard Co. Ltd., China, Ultrabulk has mutually agreed with head owners to cancel the charter contracts for two Kamsarmax (large Panamax) bulkers without further c
IHC Beaver Dredgers has delivered another Delta Multi Craft (DMC) 1200 workboat to Subsea7. The workboat will be used in combination with a new IHC Beaver 1200 cutter dredger and set to work in Western Africa. It was supplied from stock to ensure a minimum lead time, and the workboat and dredger hav
VOSTA LMG announced that effective on the 12th of November a conditional sale and purchase agreement of VOSTA LMG Group of Companies and CFT International GmbH by a company of ASL Marine Group has been agreed upon. VOSTA LMG’s business is complementary to the Group’s current business segments of shi
Four new Royal Fleet Auxiliary tankers which will be bought as part of the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) programme will be called the Tide class. The 37,000 tonne ships will come into service from 2016 to replace the RFA’s single hulled tankers and will maintain the Royal Navy’s de
Offshore handling systems specialist, Caley Ocean Systems, has been awarded a contract to supply leading dredging and marine engineering company, Jan de Nul NV, with a 5,400Te capacity cable turntable for the MPV Willem De Vlamingh. Mid 2013, Jan de Nul is installing 245kV export cable connecting th
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced that the Nave Aquila, a new building MR2 product tanker vessel of 49,991 dwt, was delivered on November 9, 2012 from a South Korean shipyard. The Nave Aquila has been chartered out to a high quality counterpa
Viktor Lenac has won a contract for a new platform for IKA SW gas field in the Northern Adriatic. INAgip, a joint venture between Croatia’s oil company INA and Italy’s Eni, has just ordered an offshore production platform from Rosetti Marino. A significant portion of the construction works will be u
