Huntington Ingalls Industries has started fabrication on the U.S. Navy’s next Aegis guided missile destroyer, John Finn (DDG 113). The ship will be built at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division and will be the 29th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built at Ingalls. “This is a significant day for
DNV and AMOS system supplier SpecTec have launched an all-in-one planned inspection and maintenance system for ship structures. AMOS is a system that crew and management are already familiar with, and in combination with DNV’s Hull Integrity Management system, the software’s accessibility further si
Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. announce the upcoming retirement of its Vice President Central Division, Larry Vauclin. Vauclin’s retirement was announced by Bollinger Executive Vice President, Ben Bordelon, who said, “Larry has been a critical part of the growth of Bollinger over the past 16 years, and a
Oman Shipping Company is expanding its current fleet of 41 vessels with five new carriers so as to cater for the rising demand from the Oman’s oil and gas, petrochemical and other industries, including flourishing LNG sector, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the company, Tarik Mohamed Al Junaidi to
Sinopec, Chinese super-large petroleum and petrochemical company and its transportation partner China Shipping Group have placed an order with the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, a large shipbuilding enterprise under the leadership of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation (CSSC) for construction of fou
Last weekend, the 35th edition of the World Port Days were held in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Damen Shipyards Group looks back on three successful days. Thousands of visitors got to know Damen through visiting the Damen stand or one of the many Damen-built vessels that participated in the event. S
PT Pelindo Marine Services (PMS) has produced two mini dredgers with dredging capacity of 360 cubic meter (m3) per hour valuing IDR1.5 billion. The subsidiary of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III also managed to book IDR81.8 billion until June 2012. The two mini dredgers will be tested for maintenance of p
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) presented Carisbrooke Shipping with energy efficiency design index (EEDI) certificates for four low emission dry cargo vessels. Built by Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, the four 8500 DWT sister vessels, the Vectis Eagle, Falcon, Harrier and Osprey incorpora
Drydocks World, the most productive shipyard in the Middle East will have a dedicated service point for ABB turbochargers. ABB Turbocharging will now have a dedicated service point for ABB turbochargers in the Drydocks World facility in Dubai, a leading international player in ship repair, ship conv
The shipbuilders of General Dynamics NASSCO have completed the structural assembly and weld-out of 26,241 metric tons of steel to erect the entire structure of the first Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) for the U.S. Navy. Construction of the ship is progressing on schedule and under budget, with delive
On September 6, the construction of the world’s most advanced semi-submersible accommodation and service platform N511, designed and built by COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard for COTEMAR, has started in COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard. N511 adopted the OCEAN 500 model provided by GUSTO MSC. The detailed design, pr
ANADOLU Shipyard has successfully completed the LCT (Landing Craft Tank) project of 8 vessels for Turkish Navy back in August 2012. On August 28th 2012 Tuesday, TCG Ç-158, the last vessel of the serries was delivered to Turkish Navy with a ceremony. ANADOLU Shipyard is actually proceeding with 8 ves
Daeyang Shipyard based in Dalian, China, a subsidiary of Daeyang Group, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, will use its acquired know-how from ship repair and offshore conversion sector to expand its services into offshore newbuilding business, Seatrade Asia online announced citing one of the comp
The long-term strategy to expand J. Lauritzen’s participation in the high-end offshore accommodation sector has reached a new milestone. Axis Offshore, the newly established joint venture between J. Lauritzen A/S and the leading oil and gas private equity firm HitecVision today announced the orderin
