The video captures construction of Washington’s newest Olympic Class ferry, 144-car Tokitae, from the start of construction through summer 2013. Vigor Industrial began construction of the Tokitae in March 2012 at the company’s Seattle shipyard. Vigor fabricated major modules and assembled them, alon
Al Khalij Commercial Bank (al khaliji) QSC has provided financing for two Nakilat shipyard joint ventures, Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) and Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar (NDSQ) for $120m and US $40m respectively. Signing for the financing worth a total of $160m was held at Nakilat’s head
The Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Government has awarded Damen Shipyards a contract for a second state-of-the-art, 80 m Ice Class ferry, just a few weeks after placing an order for its first vessel, which will serve the Fogo Island-Change Islands. This second order is for an identical vessel
In close cooperation with Allseas, Iv-Consult is designing the tilting lift beams for the Jacket Lift System (JLS) of the Pieter Schelte vessel. Pieter Schelte is a unique, single-lift offshore platform installation/decommissioning vessel capable of lifting topsides of up to 48,000 tons and jackets
Ferry operator TESO asked Vripack to carefully integrate the emotions one gets when wandering on the old Dutch island of Texel. The whole Wadden Sea is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2009 and romantically described as a place where “heaven and earth share the stage”. On Texel there is the Nation
Vroon announced yesterday that the launching of Girolando Express took place in Guangdong, China on Sunday, 22 December 2013. The vessel named Girolando Express is a livestock carrier, currently under construction at Cosco Guangdong Shipyard in China. Girolando Express is the last in a series of fou
Ocean Rig UDW Inc., a global provider of offshore deepwater drilling services, yesterday announced that it successfully took delivery of its newbuilding drillship, the Ocean Rig Skyros, on Friday, December 20, 2013. The drillship is currently mobilizing to offshore Angola to commence drilling operat
BW LPG announced that it has advanced the delivery of two Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) newbuilds from Hyundai Heavy Industries, at a cost of US$1.1 million per vessel. Delivery is now expected in August and October 2015, instead of May and August 2016. This is in line with BW LPG’s commitment to
NYK will build a tugboat featuring a dual fuel engine that can be powered by either liquefied natural gas (LNG) or heavy oil. Other than LNG carriers, this tugboat will be the first building in Japan of an LNG-fueled vessel. NYK has enhanced its initiatives to mitigate environmental loads through
Ensco plc has taken delivery of ENSCO 121, the second of four ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rigs in its ENSCO 120 Series. The rig is contracted to work in the North Sea beginning in the second quarter of 2014 at a day rate of approximately $230,000. Chairman, President and Chief Executive O
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, and our CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster, attended the work completion ceremony for the P-62 platform, this Tuesday (Dec. 17), at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard, in Ipojuca (state of Pernambuco). Before the ceremony, Rousseff, Graça Foster and their entourages
Western Marine Shipyard has signed a new agreement for the construction of one more container ship for Aryan Traders Ltd. The deal was signed by the Technical Director of Western Marine Shipyard Mr. Arifur Rahman Khan and the Managing Director of Aryan Traders Mr. Hasan Saife Jalil on behalf of thei
Shipowner and operator, Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Ltd (SPO) welcomed another new anchor handling tug supply vessel, Pacific Dispatch to its fleet with her launch and naming ceremony. This vessel is built by Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine) shipyard in Singapore. More than
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that IHC Merwede, the global market leader in efficient dredging and mining vessels and equipment, has selected IFS Applications™ to support its key business processes. The contract licenses are worth approximately EUR 2 million. As part of
