Fire Extinguished on ‘Britannia Seaways’ Cargo Ship Off Norway Danish cargo ship ‘Britannia Seaways’, operated by DFDS, caught fire in the North Sea off Norway trapping at least 32 crew members on board on Saturday, November 16, Reuters reports. The Netherlands: Damen Shipyards Unveils Innovative WS
Zhenjiang Shipyard delivered, on November 21st, the second 78m offshore standby support vessel, the ‘BE RANI’ to Falcon Energy Group (FEG) of Singapore. The 78-metre Multi-Functional Support Vessel (MFSV) was built in compliance with the highest industry standards, and is American Bureau of Shipping
Washington State Ferries is another step closer to significantly reducing fuel costs and transportation emissions by switching a class of vessels from diesel fuel to liquefied natural gas. After more than three years of study, WSF has a plan to safely convert six Issaquah Class vessels to run on cle
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) from Ulsan, South Korea, has signed contract worth circa $186.6 million for the construction of five chemical tankers. The vessels were ordered by an unnamed ship owner from Europe. Hyundai Mipo revealed in a regulatory filing to the Korea Stock Exchange that all the vess
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order worth USD 77 million for optimised cargo handling systems for five A-14-series and five A-18-series container vessels from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd in South Korea.The 14,000 TEU and 18,000 TEU ships are built for the United Arab Shipping Comp
The European Commission has opened formal antitrust proceedings against several container liner shipping companies to investigate whether they engaged in concerted practices, in breach of EU antitrust rules. Container liner shipping is the transport of containers by ship at a fixed time schedule on
Alewijnse Marine Systems, the well-known systems integrator, has been awarded the contract for the full electrical fit out of Damen’s new cable layer, now under construction for international contractor Van Oord for delivery at the end of 2014. The 120m vessel is intended for the installation of ele
Prosafe has completed firm turnkey contracts for the engineering, procurement and construction of two semi-submersible accommodation vessels, plus four units optional, with COSCO (Qidong) Offshore Co., The vessels will be the most advanced and flexible units for worldwide operations excluding Norway
In July of this year PIC (Paint-Inspector.Com) was contracted by Heerema Marine Contractors in the Netherlands to provide the Paint Superintendents for their project H851. H851 is one of the biggest barges around the world and is used to transport big items, such as topsides, part of rigs or any oth
Global Maritime introduced a new and important service line, Marine Casualty Investigation. Building on our existing comprehensive business offering, Marine Casualty Investigation (MCI) acts on behalf of hull & machinery underwriters, P&I clubs, owners, ship managers, drilling rig owners and lawyers
Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) received her seventh LNG booking for the drydocking, maintenance and repair of the LNG carrier ‘Bachir Chihani’. The Hyproc Shipping owned and managed vessel will arrive at November 25th. Jos Goris, managing director of Damen Shiprepair Brest, says: “We are very pleas
The hull of Havyard Ship Technology’s newbuild number 117, a Havyard 587 wellboat for the shipping company Fosnavaag Shipping, has arrived at the shipyard in Leirvik and is facing a hectic period of outfitting and testing. In August 2012, Havyard agreed a contract with Fosnavaag Shipping for the con
On 15 th November, The China Navigation Company confirmed an order for four additional 39,000dwt B.Delta37 handysize bulk carriers to be built at Zhejiang Ouhua Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (Ouhua), Zhoushan, China. This latest order brings the total number of Deltamarin designed vessels ordered by CNCo t
Ferus Smit has won an order to build six vessels of its brand-new ECOBOX design for Symphony Shipping. The design of ECOBOX is characterized by its flexibility of loading combined with very economical and ecological performance. The design comprises: A very large single hold of completely box shaped
