Setting the ball rolling for yet another diversification initiative, the keel for the newly designed Fisheries Oceanographic Research Vessel (FORV) was laid on 9 March 2012 at Goa Shipyard Ltd. This is the first in the series of three vessels being built by GSL for the Central Marine Fisheries Institute (CMFRI) Kochi. Dr. Philipose K. [...]
Work on Viking Line’s new passenger ferry, the MS Viking Grace, is proceeding as planned. The keel laying ceremony took place today at the STX Finland shipyard in Turku. The vessel will be launched in mid-August. It will go into service in January 2013. The keel laying ceremony is an old tradition that is intended [...]
Festive keel-laying ceremony for frigate Admiral Makarov ha been held at JSC Yantar Shipyard (affiliate of United Shipbuilding Corporation). This is the third ship in the series built by Yantar shipyard for Russian Navy since 2010. In accordance with two contracts tied with Russian Defense Ministry, Yantar Shipyard will build six Project 11356 frigates developed [...]
On February 15th 2012, the keel-laying ceremony of Martens Marine’s 58.7 m AHTS Vessel YX3159 was held on slipway No.2 at Yuexin shipyard. The vessel is built to ABS Class standards and includes following notations: “OFFSHORE SUPPORT VESSEL, AH, TOWING VESSEL, FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL CLASS 1”，AMS,and DPS-1. YX3159 is a KHIAM CHUAN MARINE (KCM) design [...]
Recently, COSCO Nantong Shipyard commenced keel laying of Sea Installer, hull number N370. This will be the first offshore vessel to be built to meet the PSPC (Performance Standard for Protective Coating) standard. The steel cutting ceremony for the Sea Installer was held on November 15th in COSCO Nantong Shipyard facilities. This jack-up vessel SEA INSTALLER, specially designed for the [...]
Today on February 17th in the assembly and welding workshop of JSC “Amur Shipbuilding Plant” the keel laying ceremony, which symbolizes the beginning of construction Steregushchy class corvette of Project 20380 named Gromky, was held. The ceremony was attended by Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Chairman of Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, chairman of [...]
Baltic Shipyard today laid the keel for the 4th oil tanker under the Project 2734 for KONTUR LLC. Baltic Shipyard and Baltic Fuel Company Group (BFC) signed the contract in November 2010, and it will be financed by the Bank of Saint Petersburg. The Project 2734, designed by Marine Engineering Bureau, was developed to satisfy [...]
Solemn keel-laying ceremony of Project 21820 landing boat (serial number 701) took place at Yaroslavl Shipyard on Jan 18. The contract for construction of such boats was tied between JSC Yaroslavl Shipyard and Russian Defense Ministry on June 23, 2011. Developing organization is the Alekseyev Hydrofoil Ship Central Design Bureau (Nizhny Novgorod). Lead boat of [...]
The hull assembly of icebreaking supply vessel NB-506 has started with the Keel Laying Ceremony held at Helsinki Shipyard 19 January 2012. The Russian Shipping Company Sovcomflot ordered two icebreaking supply vessels from Arctech a year ago. The vessels will be delivered in April 2013 and they will supply the Arkutun-Dagi oil and gas field [...]
Zaliv Shipyard’s work over the order from Bergen (vessel purposed for servicing of offshore oil-gas platforms) has come to the stage of forming of the hull. In the beginning of January the first solid block consisting of bottom unit and tweendeck units was laid up in the dry dock. The total weigh of the block [...]
