Baltiysky Zavod JSC (Baltic Shipyard) is about to start construction on a new 25 MW icebreaker ordered by Rosmorport. The keel laying is scheduled for the end of the May. The shipbuilding contract, worth around USD 640 million, was signed by the United Shipbuilding Corporation and Federal Agency for
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced that its subsidiary has chartered a new state-of-the-art pressure pumping vessel that will provide offshore stimulation services to Maersk Oil in the North Sea. Upon completion, scheduled for late 2013, the Blue Orca(TM) will become the eighth vessel in the Baker
Damen Dredging Equipment and Astilleros de Murueta are cooperating at present in the new building of two maintenance trailing suction hopper dredgers and one sand mining hopper. Each party contributes its specific knowledge : MURUETA designs and builds the vessels and Damen Dredging designs and buil
NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank is participating in the financing of an installation vessel for offshore wind energy farms. Commissioned by the international provider of construction-related services HOCHTIEF, the “VIDAR” is a jack-up vessel being built at the Crist shipyard in Poland and scheduled
COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd has successfully delivered a bulk carrier of 57.000 DWT named “CONTI FLINT” to its European buyer. The delivery documents were signed by and between COSCO Guangdong and the European buyer on Ma
MSC Cruises continues its rapid expansion with the announcement that the company has finalized negotiations with STX France and signed a contract to take over a 140,000 ton cruise ship following the termination of the agreement with the original owner. The new ship is named MSC Preziosa and will bec
On 10 March 2012, after successful sea trials and finishing of outfitting details, SIGMA Class Frigate, Sultan Moulay Ismail, built by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) in Vlissingen, was transferred to the Royal Moroccan Navy. The ship was delivered, on schedule and meeting all the requiremen
Østensjø Rederi has signed a contract with Sanmar, Turkey for delivery of one RAMparts 2800-E ASD design tug. The tug is of Robert Allan design with dimensions 28×12,6 m, 80 t BP and FiFi 1 class. Sanmar is the same yard that delivered “Vivax” in 2008. The tug will be delivered end 2012. The RAmpart
VEVA, yesterday announced that STX OSV has standardised its engineering and 3D design work on AVEVA Marine and has purchased more than 100 additional software licenses. The technology, which STX OSV has selected over Tribon and a competitive solution, will be implemented globally across ten shipyard
Danaos Corporation, a leading international owner of containerships, announced that on March 8, 2012, it took delivery of one more newly built containership, the HYUNDAI TENACITY, expanding its operational fleet to a total of 62 containerships aggregating 325,879 TEU. The HYUNDAI TENACITY, built at
Identifying and seizing chances for improvement in a difficult business environment was the theme that ran through this year’s annual meeting of Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL) Hellenic Technical Committee, held in Athens on 8 March. The dramatic increases in fuel prices, new regulations and an increased
Groningen Shipyard launched successfully number 3 from the series Sea-River vessels for Wijnne Barends, MV LADY ALEXANDRA. The vessel is the third in a series of 4 vessels. Because the design and performance of vessel and shipyard is so succesful Wijnne Barends and Groningen Shipyard are negotiating
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $60 million to provide complete power and propulsion systems for two new cruise ships to be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. at their shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan, for German cruise line operator AIDA. ABB’s deli
The new hopper dredger with 4500 m3 hold, the second from a series of 3 for Boskalis, is now under construction at Shipkits’ yard in Poland. The completion of the finished hull will be done by D.W. den Herder Maritiem B.V. Project Manager is Klaas Beuckens. Shipkits’ scope of work consists in buildi
