At its meeting in Moscow on 12 September, the Sovcomflot Board of Directors approved the Company’s strategy for the period until 2017, and reviewed the Company’s performance and results for the first half of 2011. Together with Government agencies, the Board also considered the status of preparation
After successful seatrials and finishing of outfitting details, SIGMA Class Frigate Tarik ben Ziyad, built by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) in Vlissingen, today was transferred to Rear Admiral Mohamed Laghmari, Commander in Chief of the Royal Moroccan Navy. Once again DSNS has proven to be
Part of Britain’s biggest ever warship sailed up to Scotland yesterday (Sunday) where HMS Queen Elizabeth is being assembled like a giant jigsaw at Rosyth. A&P Group’s Tyne yard at Hebburn is the only North East shipyard involved in building the new aircraft carrier, which will measure 280 metres lo
AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, announced today that SungDong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (SungDong) has extended its contract for the use of AVEVA Marine to drive the design of commercial vessels.
The naming and launch ceremony for the 12,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger, CHANG JIANG KOU 01, took place on 10 September 2011 at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands. IHC Merwede is building the impressive vessel for Yangtze Estuary Waterway Administration Bureau MOT, which
The five main builders of LNG carriers are at full capacity and unlikely to take further orders until 2014, resulting in a supply/demand imbalance that could create a bottleneck in the LNG supply chain over the next three or four years. In its assessment of the market, Awilco LNG stated in its 120-p
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has today opened a new Marine Service Centre in the Port of Hamburg, Germany. The investment marks the latest stage in the development of a global marine service network. This year, with Hamburg, four new or expanded Marine Service Centres have been ope
The construction of 15 new river-sea tankers under RST27 project (capacity – up to 6.9 thousand of tons) was launched at the Krasnoe Sormovo plant (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia). The customer of new vessels is Volgo-Balt-Tanker, LLC, the subsidiary of holding’s company B.F. Tanker. Five new tankers are
STX Finland Oy and Eide Marine Semi AS, a subsidiary of Eide Marine Services A/S, have signed a contract for the outfitting, completion and delivery of two highly sophisticated well intervention vessels with an aggregate contract value exceeding EUR 300 million. The technically advanced well interve
DCNS and KND have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the promotion, construction and sale of offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) in South Africa. The Gowind OPV leverages the most innovative technologies to ensure the success of maritime safety & security (MSS) and counterpiracy missions. DCN
Spanish shipbuilding company Navantia plans to sign a contract on additional patrol ships for Venezuelan Navy. According to Jane’s Defense Weekly, the parties hold active negotiations about additional delivery of two corvettes for exclusive economic zone patrols (POVZEE), and two littoral patrol shi
Russia and France will sign contracts for construction of third and fourth Mistral-class assault landing ships for Russian Navy in the current year, reports RIA Novosti on Sept 7 referring to the statement of defense minister Anatoly Serdiukov. “Most likely, we will finish the negotiations and sign
Imtech (technical services provider in Europe and on the global marine market) is observing a substantial increase in the number of marine service and maintenance contracts managed by Imtech. Recently Imtech signed a new global partnership agreement for 350 vessels operated by an international ship
In cooperation with Voith, Dutch Offshore Innovators BV, (DOI) developed together a new concept for economical operations of a wind turbine foundation installation vessel. The so-called TFliner concept is a move towards compact design and simplicity, which drastically reduces construction costs. An
