Defence Secretary Liam Fox and the country’s top military brass will this week assemble on the banks of the Clyde for a ceremony to mark the start of construction on Britain’s second giant aircraft carrier, the Prince of Wales. But there is a good chance that the 65,000- ton vessel, which is not due
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider and systems integrator, has been contracted by the STX Finland shipyard in Turku, Finland, to supply the main engines for a new multi-purpose cargo vessel. STX Finland is part of the international STX Europe Group. The ship is being built fo
Ulstein Verft has sold the construction vessel Karianne of SX121 type design to Island Offshore. The vessel was completed on time from ULSTEIN in the fourth quarter of 2010. The vessel was originally contracted by the shipping company Marine Subsea, which could not to take delivery of her after comp
Transas Marine developed a new shipyard crane simulator under a request from BALENCIAGA Shipyard (Spain). The simulator will enable safe and cost-effective training of crane operators working with berth gantry crane of 160 t. BALENCIAGA Shipyard purchased this crane in 2006 in order to build large s
RENK AG, Augsburg, is known throughout the world as a supplier of sophisticated gear sets for navy ships. A RENK recipe for success: Professional support of shipyards and Navies with technical innovations in both the development and the search for optimiza-tion potential, accomplished with continuou
Wärtsilä Corporation opens a new workshop in Gdansk, Poland on 20 May 2011. Located close to Polish shipyards and ports, the workshop further strengthens Wärtsilä’s presence in the Baltic area and its position as the leading services provider for shipping customers visiting Poland. The new facilitie
JSC Shipyard Zaliv (Kerch, Crimea) and large Norwegian ship owning company Argali Holdings Ltd have signed the contract for construction of offshore drilling rigs supply vessel (project 832 CD). By words of Nikolay Kuzmenko, chief of Supervisory Board of shipyard Zaliv the peculiarity of this contra
Hamburg’s Hapag-Lloyd has won a US$925 million loan with a banking syndicate made up of HSBC, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, KfW IPEX-Bank and UniCredit Bank… (TransportWeekly) [mappress] Source: TransportWeekly, May 19, 2011
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, strengthens its offering in the mid-size, low-speed engine sector by adding new 62- and 72-bore low-speed engines to its portfolio. These standardised engines offer high propulsion efficiency, reliability, and optimised total cost
Ukraine is serious about reviving and further development of its ship-building industry in Mykolaiv region (South Ukraine – Ed.). This is the theme of the visit of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Chernomorsky Shipyard in Mykolaiv, where he participated in laying the keel of the corvette
White Smoke AB and Frederiet AB have decided to join forces in the development of the world’s first LNG bunker vessel operation. All the future activities of the partners within the LNG bunkering business will be done through the jointly owned White Smoke Shipping AB. Fredrik Grenestedt, the managin
Austal’s largest catamaran built to date, the 113 metre “Leonora Christina”, was recently handed over to her owners, marking completion of construction of the high speed vehicle-passenger ferry at Austal’s Henderson shipyard. “Leonora Christina” was constructed for Danish company Færgen (formerly No
Russia will prepare a law to support shipbuilding industry in Far East by next week, Vice Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov said Sunday while inspecting the construction of maritime terminal on Kunashir Island. According to the RIA Novosti report, the document will include a number of measures aimed at e
In April Cargotec confirmed a new order vfor 21 MacGregor ariable frequency drive (VFD) electric cranes to be installed on seven 28,000 dwt multipurpose cargo ships. The ships will be built at Huanghai Shipbuilding in China for Ethiopian Shipping lines, and the MacGregor cranes are scheduled for del
