Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd launched the world’s first high speed passenger Ro-Ro ship powered by LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) on Saturday 17th November to allow the vessel to be completed outside the main shipyard shed. The vessel has been moored alongside at the Incat shipyard wha
Faced with plunging demand for ships it seems that shipbuilders have turned to oil and gas sector. One of such examples is Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Ltd., which has formed a new offshore-energy equipment unit aiming to focus on offshore and marine business and hoping that the new uni
Keppel FELS Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, has been selected by Ukraine’s National Joint-Stock Company, Naftogaz, as the winner of a tender to construct two semisubmersible (semi) drilling rigs and will be entering into further contract negotiations with Naftogaz
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has selected Intergraph(®) SmartMarine(®) 3D for its Offshore division. SHI has been a longtime user of the industry-leading solution, deploying it in full production within its Shipbuilding division, and has now extended the use of SmartMarine 3D for its offshore proj
Naming ceremony of the first ship in the series of dual RS/ABS class bulk carriers for OAO NOVOSHIP was held on 19 November, 2012 at the shipyard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co Ltd, Republic of Korea. The ship was named NS ENERGY. Main particulars: length – 225 m width – 32.25 m freeboard depth – [&hellip
Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG is experiencing another end-of-year rush – but that’s regularly par for the course at the German shipyard. Three big cruise ships are in Bremerhaven in the coming days and weeks to be spruced up for the 2013 cruise season. They are the MS “Braemar” and the MS “Balmoral”, b
SinOceanic Shipping ASA’s 100% subsidiary SinOceanic III AS (SinOceanic) owning the TEU 13.100 container vessel “MSC Regulus”, partly financed the vessel by a USD 100 million senior secured loan with a tenor of one year with an option for SinOceanic to extend for one year. The loan carries an intere
Western Baltija Shipbuilding has delivered a hull of fishing trawler ROGNE to the Danish company Karstensens Skibsværft A/S on November 13th. Length of the trawler hull is 69.9 m, breadth – 14.2 m, draught – 4.9 m, speed – 16.5 knots, maximum number of crew – 12 people. This vessel is analogous to a
Vantage Drilling Company announced yesterday that it has entered into a joint venture with an affiliate of Skeie Group and other investors for purposes of constructing a new, high specification drillship at STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.’s yard in South Korea. Through its investment of $31 mil
The Baie St. Paul, Canada Steamship Lines’ (CSL) first of four new Trillium Class self-unloading Lakers was honoured last evening with the prestigious 2012 Bulk Ship of the Year Award at the International Bulk Journal (IBJ) Gala dinner held in Hamburg, Germany. Presented to the year’s most outstandi
TTS Group ASA has through its subsidiary TTS Offshore Handling Equipment AS signed a contract worth approximately NOK 130 million (approx. $22,6 million) in Korea. The contract is with STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd in Korea and concerns delivery of four large offshore cranes and equipment for
Sentinel Marine, owner and operator of offshore support vessels from Singapore, announced on November 12, 2012 that it has ordered two Anchor Handling Towing & Supply Vessels (AHTS) from Nam Cheong Dockyard under the terms from previously exercised option in October. Based on Khiam Chuan Marine desi
On the 14th of November 2012, Hvide Sande Skibs- & Baadbyggeri delivered a 50m ferry to Swedish domestic ferry company Ven-Trafiken. The vessel, named Uraniborg, will be operating between Landskrona in Sweden and the Swedish island Hven in the Øresund. Knud E. Hansen A/S has been responsible for the
The Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal will welcome the Cruise Ship RHAPSODY OF THE SEAS on Thursday 22 November 2012 with 2826 passengers and crew on board. The ship is scheduled to dock in the Port of Cairns at 0800 and stay overnight in the Port departing Friday 23 November at 1700. The cruise ship ind
