Damen Shipyards and Smit Lamnalco have today signed a contract for delivery of three tug boats. The signing ceremony took place at Damen Shipyard’s booth at the SMM 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. Phil Cornish, Smit Lamnalco Technical Manager , Andrew Brown, Smit Lamnalco Business Development Manager and Arnout Damen COO of Damen Shipyards signed the [...]
STX OSV Holdings Limited, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announces that the platform supply vessel Far Solitaire, built by STX OSV Langsten in Norway for owners Farstad Supply, was elected Ship of the Year 2012. The annual Ship of the Year award recognizes outstanding vessels delivered from [...]
Global maritime and offshore oil & gas engineering company, and IMarEST Marine Partner, Harris Pye is highlighting its 360 degree 3D laser scanner for ballast water treatment system installation on its stand at SMM in Hamburg (Hall A1 / Stand 501). “Since we announced earlier this year that we had successfully used our innovative 360 [...]
Rising demand for considerably complex and highly-developed deepwater field undertakings results in greater, more advanced and technically brilliant offshore vessels. These technological marvels play a vital role in the offshore industry construction, supply and maintenance thus a significant increase in demand for building such vessels has been recorded. The following vessel innovations have marked the [...]
Increasing fuel prices and environmental concerns have been stressing the importance for the marine industry to direct its efforts towards the design and operation of vessels which minimize the environmental impact. Featuring originality and innovation, highly advanced technology is becoming more environmentally-friendly thus green shipping activities will reach its maximum of development with the launch [...]
Yantar Shipyard (PCZ) is planning to conduct mooring trials, ordered by the Russian Ministry of Defense, for Research & Survey Vessel Seliger in January 2012. “Seleger” is a heading vessel of Project 11982 elaborated by the Central Marine Design Bureau “Almaz”. Shipyard “Yantar” has signed the Shipbuilding Contract with the Ministry of Defense of RF in February [...]
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The world’s second largest shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is planning to reach USD 11 billion mark in new orders for 2012. Similar forecasts were made for 2011 despite a bad credit situation resulting in a number of cancelled orders. Nam Sang, Chief Executive Officer at DSME, said that the shipbuilder plans to invest [...]
Chellship is expected to take delivery of three new vessels in 2012. These are the Kamsarmax vessel Darya Kirthi of 80,500 DWT being built at STX Korea and the handy size vessels Darya Ganga and Darya Jamuna being built at HMD Korea. The construction of the vessels is proceeding smoothly with the Keel laying of [...]
Nevsky Shipyard continues to work on the construction of the series of 10 dry-cargo “river-sea” type vessels of about 7000 dwt RSD49 project (The Project is developed by “Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb”, JSC in close co-operation with the specialists of the Customer and Shipyard.). The Customer is North-Western Shipping Company JSC. On November 26 th, 2011 [...]
14 years after the disaster with the Kursk submarine in the Barents Sea, the Russian navy will finally get a modern rescue ship… (barentsobserver) Source: barentsobserver, November 17, 2011; Image:admship
