d’Amico International Shipping S.A., an international marine transportation company, operating in the product tanker market, announces today that its operating subsidiary d’Amico Tankers Limited (Ireland), entered into contracts for the construction of two additional new product/chemical tanker vess
STX Construction Dalian Co. Ltd in China has recently built a goliath crane, the world’s largest. The goliath crane installed on a dock at the STX Dalian Shipbuilding Complex weighs 1,000-tons and spans 248m, its lifting height is 84m and dead load reaches a whopping 8,300-tons. The goliath crane ma
China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Limited, a large heavy industries group in China, has delivered, today, one 380,000 DWT class Very Large Ore Carrier (“VLOC”) to each of Vale S.A. (“Vale”) and Oman Shipping Company S.A.O.C., with a combined tonnage of nearly 800,000 DWT, marking a new
Scorpio Tankers Inc. announced today that it has taken delivery of STI Onyx, the fifth MR vessel under its previously announced Newbuilding program. STI Onyx is the fifth of ten vessels scheduled for delivery under the Company’s Newbuilding program. Upon delivery, the vessel began a time charter for
Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $296 million contract modification, under a previously awarded contract, for continuation of long-lead-time material procurement for and advance construction of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79). The company’s Newport News Ship
Crowley Maritime Corporation christened the 16,000-horsepower tugboat Legend and 330,000-barrel tank barge 750-2 today in Tampa, Fla. Together the vessels comprise the company’s newest articulated-tug-barge (ATB) and will be used to transport petroleum products between the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts,
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. announced yesterday that one of its subsidiaries had entered into a turnkey construction contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (“DSME”) to construct a third ultra-deepwater drillship, to be named the Atwood Admiral, at the DSME yard in South Korea.
Damen Shipyards Group will be supplying Acta Marine with four Shoalbuster anchor handling tugs. Three of the anchor handling tugs will be supplied from Damen Marine Services’ charter fleet, while Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld will be supplying the fourth, a new Shoalbuster, in March 2013. “Shoalbuster
Red7Marine recently announced the investment in the seventh Jack-up barge called “Haven Seariser 2″. Key features of the vessel are: – Modular design with overal dimensions of 29.3m x 17m x 2.44m. – The vessel has a maximum deck load capacity of 250 tonnes and a point load capacity of 5 tonnes per s
Today Island Offshore Management AS took delivery of the 21’st vessel in the fleet . Island Contender is of design UT 776 CDG and equipped for operating on gas alone. Christening of the vessel is performed earlier, therefore a small ceremony with change of flag was held in Brevik today. Island Conte
Noble Energy, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a 36 month contract with a subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics Inc. for a new build drillship to support its global new ventures efforts in deepwater exploration and development. The agreement demonstrates the Company’s commitment to global offsh
Lockers Trawlers Ltd. of Whitby have placed an order for a versatile 25m whitefish vessel with local boat builders Parkol Marine Engineering. The latest hull and propulsion technology will by a key feature of the vessel, which, as the biggest order placed by owners in England for fourteen years, rep
Wilson Sons Limited announces that Atlantic Offshore Services S.A., in which Wilson Sons and Ultratug International Inc. each have 50% participation, has signed a contract with the Singaporean shipbuilding company Pacific Ocean Engineering & Trading PTE LTD for the acquisition of a 3,500 deadweight
On September 24, the first CNPC made jack-up drilling rig CP-300 was brought into use at the Bohai Bay’s new Panjin Port, Liaoning Province. CNPC Vice President Li Xinhua attended the delivery ceremony and cut the cable. CP-300 jack-up rig, independently designed and manufactured by CNPC Bohai Equip
