Eleven years after the launch of its first Articulated Tug-Barge (ATB), Crowley Maritime Corporation christened its 17th ATB, the Liberty/750-3, on May 2 at the VT Halter Marine Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. The tugboat and 330,000-barrel petroleum tank barge are the final vessels to be built in a m
Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, will provide the complete back deck solution for handling of up to 20 streamers simultaneously aboard a GC Rieber owned new-build seismic exploration vessel, awarded by builder Kleven. The ST324XT designed by Skipsteknisk in Ålesund, will be built a
Seven Cryobox® LNG nano stations, designed and manufactured by Galileo, will fuel the tanks of the “López Mena”, the world´s first high speed passenger RO-RO ship powered by Gas Turbines fed on LNG, which will daily cross the River Plate between Argentina and Uruguay. It will also be the first time
The hopper dredger “Jean Ango” has been handed over to its owner, DRAGAGES-PORTS. The 1,500 m3 dredger was designed and built in Spain by Astilleros de Murueta, using Damen dredging equipment. The “Jean Ango” has specifically been designed for round the clock maintenance dredging. The 1,500 m3 hoppe
The hopper dredger “Stellamaris” has been handed over to its owner, DTM, by the Spanish yard Astilleros de Murueta. The TSHD, designed for sand mining, will work not far from its building location. The dredging equipment on board was supplied by Damen Dredging. The 2,600 m3 dredger has been specific
IHC Merwede has today successfully launched Subsea 7’s 550t pipelaying vessel, SEVEN WAVES, at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming ceremony was carried out by Mrs Lucia Andrade, the ship’s God Mother and Subsea 7 Brazil’s Vice President Projects & Operations. The SEVE
South Koren shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co (HMD), a subsidiary of HHI, has been awarded a contract to construct three bulk carriers for an unnamed European client. The contract, announced on May 2nd on the Korea Exchange, is said to be worth around $101 million. The delivery of the vessels is
SEACOR Holdings Inc. (SEACOR) announced on May 2 that it has executed an agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI), through a subsidiary of SEACOR Ocean Transport Inc., for the construction of two Liquefied Petroleum Gas tankers (Very Large Gas Carriers, otherwise known as VLGCs) with
Vard Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announced that it has entered into a new contract with Island Offshore for the construction of one advanced offshore support vessel of Rolls-Royce design. The value of the contract amounts
Moving MOUs to sheltered waters or drydock facilities for surveys is disruptive and expensive. Using the experience gained from several years of dealing with floating production units and surveying drilling units on location, DNV is now preparing a Recommended Practice (RP) to allow mobile offshore
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has developed an offshore crane featuring three-axis motion compensation to carry out installations, repairs, maintenance and general service duties in the renewable energy and oil and gas markets A 74m infield support vessel (ISV) will debut a new MacGregor offshore cra
The U.S. Navy’s first Mobile Landing Platform, USNS Montford Point (MLP) 1, successfully completed Acceptance Trials on April 19, in San Diego, Calif. Built by General Dynamics-NASSCO, MLP is a highly flexible platform that will provide capability for large-scale logistics movements such as the tran
GE Marine will provide Austal USA, Mobile, Alabama, with four LM2500 marine aeroderivative gas turbines to power the United States Navy’s 14th and 16th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). GE is providing 20 LM2500 gas turbines for the Austal USA LCS program, part of a contract for up t
Peter Zoeteman (52) has been appointed as the new General Director of the Holland Shipbuilding Association as of 1 May. With a long and broad career in the maritime business sector, Zoeteman is well positioned for this job. He was member of the board of the association until 2012. He will succeed Mi
