Sembmarine SLP Limited (SLP), a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, announced that it has secured a contract worth approximately £7 million to fabricate the Bridge and Flare Structures for Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd’s Golden Eagle Project. SLP is already the EPC provider for the Project’s Living Quarters Platform which, together with the Bridge and Flare Structures, [...]
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has honored five teams and three individuals with “President’s Awards for Excellence” for their outstanding and innovative work on shipbuilding projects. The award-winners were formally recognized at a dinner held March 14 in Gulfport, Miss. “We build very sophisticated and complex products, and it takes skill and innovation to [...]
Drydocks World & Maritime World has announced the institution of an employee award scheme to recognize performance excellence among its staff. The award which recognizes an employee’s commitment & work ethic in embracing the challenges required in the transformation phase of the business is available to all employees including those at the most senior levels. [...]
Barrow shipyard has scooped three Best in Trade awards in BAE Systems UK Apprenticeship Awards. Pipe fabricator Alex Holmes won the Craft Mechanical Achievement award, Sarah Linton won the Overall Craft Electrical award, and Joanna Edmondson won the Best Higher Apprentice award. Apprentice Co-ordinator, John Harris MBE, was also awarded a BAE Systems UK Recognition [...]
The 2013 Boatyard of the Year Award was presented to Front Street Shipyard of Belfast, Maine at the American Boat Builders & Repairers Association (ABBRA) Boatyard Business Conference Awards Dinner & 70th Anniversary Celebration held in Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida from January 16th – 18th at the B Ocean Hotel. Given to the service or [...]
On the 21st of December, Algirdas Butkevičius, the Prime Minister, and Robertas Dargis, the President of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, greeted and presented the awards of the “Lithuanian Products of the Year” competition to the heads of the companies at the House of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Environmentally friendly tug “GEO”, [...]
The prestigious prize has been awarded to the innovative ship, which was designed and mostly built in the Netherlands, during the annual Maritime Awards Gala in Rotterdam on 8 November 2012. HMS Holland was competing against ten other ships for the award, with the decision ultimately coming down to HMS Holland and two other vessels: [...]
Detyens Shipyards Inc. has been awarded a contract to work on a Navy refueling vessel USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189) in North Charleston. The contract foresees additional options, which, if used, could result in higher costs rising up to $9 mill. The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Fleet Support Command is the contracting authority awarding contract on [...]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $9.98 million in grants to 15 small shipyards throughout the United States to pay for modernizations that will increase productivity and help the country’s small shipyards compete in the global marketplace. “In cities and towns across America, shipyards are creating jobs and keeping our nation’s economy growing,” said Secretary [...]
TITAN Salvage, a Crowley Maritime Corp. company, has been awarded a contract to serve as the commercial marine salvage and engineering support contractor for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the division of the U.S. Navy responsible for engineering, building, buying and maintaining Navy ships and submarines and their combat systems. In this new role, [...]
