Dutch-owned Sima Charters has taken delivery of the latest vessel to join its fleet, a CTruk 20T multi-purpose catamaran. Sporting Sima Charters’ eye-catching yellow and blue livery, SC Buzzard is the tenth vessel to be completed at the Brightlingsea yard in two years. The relationship between Sima
Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft this morning successfully launched the second of two identical RoRo freight ferry new buildings for the Turkish shipping company Ulusoy Sealines. “At 208 metres, these are the longest and biggest freight ferryies ever built at FSG”, declared shipyard Managing Direc
The platform supply vessel Bourbon Calm, yno DH1003 at Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. was delivered on 2 November 2012. Bourbon Calm is the third in a series of four platform supply vessels of ULSTEIN’s PX105 designs to Bourbon Offshore Norway from this yard. The ship has a length of 88.8 metres, a
The latest additions are for a series of three firm ships plus options of B.Delta37 design as open hatch general cargo ship, which will be built at the Chinese CSC Jinling Shipyard. This will bring the number of firm B.Delta37 newbuilding orders to 21 units and the total number of newbuilding orders
Penguin Shipyard International delivered the WORLD’S FASTEST TRIPLE-SCREW MECHANICALLY DRIVEN crewboat in October 2012, the Flex-38S, which can cruise in excess of 26 knots with 31.5 tons of deadweight. The Flex-38S is a new generation of crewboats designed specifically for speed efficiency. Penguin
OSIL announced the launch of a Vessel Motion Monitoring System (VMMS), a system designed to monitor motion of a vessel in order to increase safety of transfers during offshore wind farm operations. With a second generation 6 DoF (Degrees of Freedom) motion sensor, the Vessel Motion Monitoring System
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced that the Nave Cetus, a new building LR1 product tanker vessel of 74,581 dwt, was delivered on October 30, 2012 from a South Korean shipyard. Nave Cetus has been chartered out to a high quality counterparty fo
Hull protection, being one of the key challenges common for all stakeholders in maritime industry has seen development of various innovative solutions over the recent years. That was the reason why World Maritime News Staff asked a specialist from Cathelco, the company that designs and manufactures
With the christening of the new pilot station vessel ’Polaris’, Alphatron Marine of Rotterdam has completed the design, installation and commissioning of one of the most comprehensive deliveries since its founding in 1991. In close cooperation with Fysergo, a Dutch company specialised in ergonomic w
Grandweld Shipyards celebrated, November 1, the keel laying of the three new 42m Aluminum Crew Boats for the repeat client Global Marine. The contract was signed in August 2012 following the successful delivery of the three sister crew boats in 2011. The series is a heavily modified version of the 4
Golar LNG Ltd announced Thursday, November 1 that it has reached agreement for the development of the company’s first floating liquefied natural gas vessel (FLNGV). The agreement is with Keppel Shipyard Limited and is based on the conversion of existing Moss LNG carriers of which Golar owns three po
Improving hull and propeller performance is an effective and quick-win solution for shipowners seeking to boost the energy efficiency of their fleet. The reliable and accurate measurement of performance allows owners to make both fuel-cost and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions savings, based on informe
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has received its 1000th order for its 2-stroke low-speed diesel, electronically controlled, common-rail RT-flex engines. This important milestone was passed in August with the placing of an order for a 7-cylinder Wärtsilä RT-fl
During a ceremony held in Tokyo, DNV was confirmed to be formally authorised by the Japanese government to carry out surveys on ships flying the Japanese flag. Under Japanese legislation, DNV has been designated as a Recognised Organisation by the Japanese government and is granted delegated respons
