Today Island Offshore Management AS took delivery of the 21’st vessel in the fleet . Island Contender is of design UT 776 CDG and equipped for operating on gas alone. Christening of the vessel is performed earlier, therefore a small ceremony with change of flag was held in Brevik today. Island Conte
Lockers Trawlers Ltd. of Whitby have placed an order for a versatile 25m whitefish vessel with local boat builders Parkol Marine Engineering. The latest hull and propulsion technology will by a key feature of the vessel, which, as the biggest order placed by owners in England for fourteen years, rep
On September 26, 2012, the sixth-generation semi-submersible drilling platform ISLAND INNOVATOR was successfully delivered by COSCO Shipyard Group. Built for Norwegian shipowners, the multifunctional platform, detailed design, production design, procurement of equipment, system installation and comm
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) presented Carisbrooke Shipping with energy efficiency design index (EEDI) certificates for four low emission dry cargo vessels. Built by Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, the four 8.500 DWT sister vessels, the Vectis Eagle, Falcon, Harrier and Osprey incorpor
Last Thursday, on September 20th 2012, Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) took delivery of VOS Atlanta. This new addition to the VOS fleet was delivered from Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. VOS Atlanta is a 59-metre “A class” anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel and the second of three vessels be
Survitec Group has played a key role in the refurbishment of US registered seismic survey vessel Fairfield New Venture, which is owned by the seismic data specialist Fairfieldnodal. Survitec’s engineers have ensured the vessel is now fully compliant with LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipme
Built at Tsuneishi (Zhoushan) Shipbuilding Inc., China, the vessel is a sister of the recently delivered Isabelita, Bonita and Kristinita of the TESS 58 design. Star Norita is 100% owned by Ugland Shipping AS. Ugland’s Purchaser Margrethe Nes Beisland, Managing Director Øystein Beisland’s wife, was
The Vripack Design Studio has been munching over this one for several years and in the recent year she has grown to be the Vripack vision of the Research Vessel Yacht 2.0 (RVY). Therefore her internal project name has long been Turmoil II. The main reason for this is her striking long forward part b
Admiralty Shipyard, United Shipbuilding Corporation’s subsidiary, is planing to launch rescue ship Igor Belousov of Project 21300 by the end of October 2012. Construction of the Igor Belousov started in 2005 at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg but has faced a series of setbacks. The constru
DNV has been awarded the contract to class the Petronas LNG FPSO (FLNG). The unit will be built by DSME in Korea and is destined for the Kanowit field offshore Sarawak, Malaysia. It is expected to be the world’s first floating liquefaction unit in operation when completed in 2015. The Petronas FLNG
Santierul Naval Constanta SA (SNC) will build two new 50,000 dwt product tankers to be classed by Germanischer Lloyd (GL). The letter of intent was signed during the SMM trade show in Hamburg. The two Chemical Tankers Type 2 / Oil Tankers will be built according to the Common Structural Rules and SN
STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard has completed all modification works on multipurpose deck cargo vessel Aura, owned by Oy Gaiamare Ab which is part of Meriaura Group. During the two-and-a-half-month long overhaul process the special cargo vessel underwent important modifications. The vessel arrived a
The Aker Yards-built vessel Island Vanguard, has had various maintenance work done at Ulstein Verft during the last week. “We are always keen to take on after market missions, and we are well equipped to take on most of this type of work on ships,” says service manager Håkon Langeland. “Ulstein Verf
Being built at the STX Europe shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France and promising to set new luxury standards on the worldwide oceans, EUROPA 2 ill join the Hapag-Lloyd Cruises fleet (currently 4 ships) in May 2013. The 40,000 ton EUROPA 2 will be positioned as the modern, lifestyle-orientated sister sh
