The second-in-series Cape Class Patrol Boat was named Cape Byron during a ceremony held at Austal’s Henderson shipyard in Western Australia on April 28, Austal Limited announced. The vessel was launched at Austal’s Henderson shipyard in January 2014 and has since undergone final fit out and sea tria
The keel of the first vessel in the series of six Post-Panamax vessels ordered by Höegh Autoliners from Xiamen Shipbuilding Industries, China was laid on April 30. The six Post-Panamax vessels, of the New Horizon design, will be delivered to Höegh Autoliners in 2015-2016. This will be the world’s la
Tianjin Marine Shipping, a subsidiary of Hainan Airlines Group (HNA Group), has signed a letter of intent with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC) for the construction of four LNG carriers. The shipper has six months to confirm the order. The order forms part of the company’s fleet expansion plan an
Windwave Workboats will be the launching customer of the Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2008, Damen announced. The Twin Axe FCS 2008 is a smaller version of Damen’s successful FCS 2610 which launched in 2011 and has subsequently become the industry standard for the offshore wind market, given its
Following media reports, Rolls-Royce confirmed that it was in talks with Siemens regarding the sale of its Energy gas turbine and compressor business. The business supplies aero-derivative gas turbines, compressor systems and related services to customers in the Oil and Gas and Power Generation sect
Fujian Mawei Shipyard in Fuzhou, China has successfully launched the Stanford Mustang, a 50m Anchor Handling Tug (AHT). The tug, owned by Stanford Marine, is equipped with a special low air draft design, to enable the safe passage below the bridges that connect offshore installations. The Stanford M
Marine Assets Corporation (MAC) has signed four contracts for construction of Offshore Supply Vessels (OSV) with Fujian Mawei Shipyard, SE China, valued at $125m. This will bring the current MAC order book to 25 vessels, due for delivery between May 2014 and June 2016, ranging in size and specificat
Three shipbuilders have been selected by the developers of the “Yamal LNG” project to build sixteen gas tankers for a total amount of five billion dollars. The winners of this mega deal are Russian “Sovcomflot”, Japanese Mitsui OSK and Canadian Teekay LNG, as written by the Russian newspaper Vedomos
COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered a Self-Erecting Drilling Tender Barge to Energy Drilling. The delivery documents were signed by and between COSCO Guangdong and the buyer recently.
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has signed contracts for four subsea cranes with subsidiaries of a Malaysian shipbuilding, shiprepair and chartering group, Coastal Contracts Bhd. MacGregor 100-tonne SWL active heave-compensated (AHC) subsea cranes will be installed on four subsea support vessels (SSV)
Estonian company Marketex Marine has been awarded a contract by the Norwegian company AKVA Group to build the biggest fish feeding steel barge in the world which has a very unique storage capacity. According to business analysts’ forecasts, fish farming is escalating rapidly and it’s predicted the i
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) took delivery of a new vessel specialized in general cargo with a size of 26,000 DWT in South Korea on 28th April 2014. The ship was named “Bahri Yanbu” and it was built by Hyundai MIPO in South Korea. This is the sixth vessel and the last [&hell
Dynamic positioning control systems from Navis Engineering have met performance expectations set out in the sea trials of the innovative multifunctional icebreaking rescue and emergency vessel Baltika. The state-of-the-art icebreaker, commissioned in early April, is fitted with the Nav DP4000 (DP Sy
BAE Systems has received a multi-ship, multi-option (MSMO) contract from the U.S. Navy to repair, maintain, and modernize nine destroyers and cruisers, either homeported in or visiting Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The five-year contract, awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, includes modernization, mai
