![The Netherlands: De Hoop Shipyard Finishes SBBA Project for Global Marine Systems]()
Over the last few months De Hoop has designed and build a 60 person / 4-deck SBBA (Single Block Barge Accommodation) for Global Marine Systems. On Dec 20th a special lift-operation was performed in the Rotterdam harbour as the almost 500 ton weighing SBBA for Global Marine was lifted on the pontoon ‘Smit Anambas’. The [...]
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ sixth amphibious transport dock, San Diego (LPD 22), successfully completed her U.S. Navy acceptance trial this week. The ship returned to Ingalls Shipbuilding Thursday after a two-day sea trial. “It’s amazing what 25,000 tons of steel can do sailing through the Gulf of Mexico,” said Doug Lounsberry, Ingalls Shipbuilding’s vice president and [...]
Huntington Ingalls Industries, its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, has completed construction of the 2011 Quicken Loans Carrier Classic trophy that will be presented on Veterans Day to the winner of the Division I men’s basketball game being played on USS Carl Vinson. The pewter trophy is inspired by the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers’ island house, [...]
Advanced Building Services (ABS), expedited on deadline the completion of a highly customized, 10×30-foot geological/geophysical office for a newbuild, ultra-deepwater drillship in the Gulf of Mexico. This “G&G” office was the fourth in a series of customized buildings that ABS has manufactured for new drillships in the Gulf. Fabricated to the exacting specifications of a [...]
![CIC Changxing Shipyard Finishes Bulk Carrier ROBUSTO Repair Project (China)]()
On the afternoon of Oct. 18, 2011, the vessel “ROBUSTO” repaired by CIC Changxing Shipyard smoothly departed from the yard’s premises and made a successful conclusion of her special survey project. The vessel is a Cape size bulk carrier, with LOA 289 m and moulded breadth 45 m. Her main work scope was all nine [...]
![Gibraltar Based Gibdock Finishes Repair Works on Siroco’s Two VSP Units]()
Gibdock has completed a complex and demanding propulsion system job, following the recent docking of the 57 tonne bollard pull capacity Boluda group harbour tug Siroco. The 2001-built Siroco, which operates in the port of Algeciras, arrived in Gibraltar in early June for a one month docking that included the complete removal and overhaul of [...]
![A&P Group’s Falmouth Yard Finishes Multi-Million Pound Refit of RFA Largs Bay (UK)]()
A&P Group’s Falmouth yard has marked the end of the multi-million pound refit of RFA Largs Bay – the second ship in her class to undergo a major refit at the docks. The RFA Largs Bay was formally handed over to the Australian Department of Defence, which bought the ship, at an official signing ceremony [...]
![Great Lakes Towing Co Finishes Maintenance and Inspection Works on U.S. Brig Niagara]()
The U.S. Brig Niagara is scheduled to return to Erie after two weeks of maintenance and inspection work at Great Lakes Towing Co. in … (goerie) Source: goerie, October 12, 2011;
![China: Taizhou Sanfu Shipyard Finishes Sea Trials for 12.000 DWT MPC Ellensborg]()
Last wednesday, 20#12000DWT MPC, being built for Danish NORDANA company, came back from sea trial successfully and anchored at No.3 quay at Taizhou Sanfu shipyard. Its LOA is 138.5m, LPP 130.0m, moulded width 21.0m, moulded depth 11.0m with design draft 7.5m. This vessel would be delivered around middle of October as scheduled. 12000DWT MPC is [...]
![Vietnam: SEAS Finishes and Delivers 40-m LCT Barge HIRUNDO]()
South East Asia shipyard, (SEAS), PIRIOU’s shipyard in Vietnam, has delivered the “HIRUNDO”, a 40-m LCT barge ordered in 2010, to SOLEXIA for its sea and air freight subsidiary “RMP CARAIBES” . Delivered 1 month earlier than the contractual date, this ship will replace the ship currently in service, “Le Bouffi”, for the daily freight [...]
