Complex requirements that place increasing demands on efficiency are mission-critical challenges for tube forming applications too. This is particularly true for shipbuilding. The high investment in the tooling needed for forming machines has been an unnecessary cost driver – until now. A corresponding tool had to be available for every possible combination of tube geometry [...]
With funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and supported by “Projektträger Jülich” (PTJ), over the next three years Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and the maritime engineering company HeavyLift@Sea will conduct research into the improvement of tools for the simulation of offshore crane operations. The project is named HoOK – [...]
Spanish shipbuilder and repair company Astilleros Armon SA recently delivered tug Cerro Itamut, the first out of 14 vessels that were ordered by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). The $158.3 million contract, awarded to the company offering the best value proposal, involved the construction, testing and staggered delivery of 14 tractor-type tugs of 70 tons. The [...]
Colfax Fluid Handling, a business of Colfax Corporation, has been awarded a contract as the exclusive supplier of hydraulic pumps for a ship capable of lifting the topside structures from offshore platforms. With a lifting capacity of up to 48,000 t, the ship will remove topsides in one piece and transport them to land for [...]
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A two-week voyage through four Great Lakes and the Mississippi River will bring to the Port of Houston Authority the first of three high-performance fireboats to replace the current fleet. The new fireboats will equip the Port Authority’s firefighting team with the most sophisticated fleet in the world. The new Firestorm 70 is a state-of-the-art [...]
Two employees at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division were recognized this month at the CIO Leadership Event. Deborah Morewitz and Karen Ryan both received the annual Ones to Watch Award that identifies rising stars in information technology (IT). The awards, sponsored by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council, recognize IT professionals [...]
Since the integration of Ned-Deck Marine into the PALFINGER GROUP in 2010, the Business Area PALFINGER MARINE has strengthened its position as a deck equipment supplier in the maritime, offshore and wind industries worldwide. Based on these positive developments and to enable the communication of a single strong brand name to the market, the decision [...]
Rafael de Góngora Escrivá de Romaní has been appointed Head of the Marine Engineering Strategic Business Unit (MaSBU) and director of the Department of Engineering and Marine Systems of SENER, an engineering and technology group that has a workforce of more than 5,000 professionals, offices in four continents and a turnover of 1,160 million euros [...]
Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. (Teekay Offshore) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil), on behalf of the field license partners, to provide a floating storage and offtake (FSO) unit for the Gina Krog oil and gas field located in North Sea. The contract will be serviced by a [...]
The 27th new Tamar class lifeboat was handed over to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) by Babcock yesterday, marking the last lifeboat to be built for the charity by Babcock under the existing contract. The 16 metre Tamar class slipway-launched lifeboat, originally developed by RNLI designers with Babcock, represented a major step forward in [...]
