Recently, ZPMC has signed a supply contract for 128 iron ore barges with Brazil’s HDB (Hidrovias Do Brasil). This is the largest hull fabrication contract the company has ever signed. Under the contract, ZPMC will provide services including iron ore barge design and fabrication, as well as transport, unloading and delivery. These barges will be [...]
February 22, 2013 | Posted in
Company News,
Contracts & Tenders,
Featured,
News by topic,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipbuilding News,
Shipyard News,
South & Central Asia,
Top Stories |
Read More »
Minister for Defence Stephen Smith, Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare and Attorney General and Member for Gellibrand Nicola Roxon yesterday, Dec. 3rd, visited the BAE Systems dockyard in Williamstown, Melbourne, to view progress on the construction of Australia’s largest ever warship. Australia is acquiring two Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ships at a total cost [...]
This fall, ShipConstructor Software Inc. (SSI) will be hosting its largest user conferences ever. The theme of the 3-day conferences will be Empowered Engineering. The focus of the conferences will be on giving engineering teams more power. Day 1 will outline the roadmap for ShipConstructor’s future development and soon to be released, groundbreaking new features [...]
The first 250-meter-long tanker, out of four ordered by the Venezuela’s Oil Company, was launched on Monday evening at Sadra shipyard Bushehr yard, Iran. This Aframax tanker is the largest oil tanker manufactured in the Middle East region so far. With the astonishing efforts of all employees, the shipyard managed to complete the vessel within just [...]
July 25, 2012 | Posted in
Americas,
Company News,
Featured,
Middle East,
News by topic,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipbuilding News,
Shipyard News,
Top Stories |
Read More »
Becker Marine Systems has been elected by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding to design and supply the largest ever built full spade rudders for Zodiac’s container vessels of more than 90m2. The rudder type will be Becker Marine Systems’ well proven TLKSR® (Twisted leading edge king support rudder) for the 400m long and 54m wide 16,000 [...]
![Denmark: Knud E. Hansen AS Executes Largest Ever Ship Lengthening Feasibility Study]()
Knud E. Hansen A/S has executed a feasibility study for the most extensive lengthening project in the history of ship conversions. Building a new 240m long vessel to transport cars and passengers (RO-PAX vessel) takes two years work on the shipyard and is a tremendous investment of about 120 million Euros. Conversion, and more specifically [...]
