MAN Diesel & Turbo has announced the 500th sale of its MAN 48/60 medium-speed engine. The milestone was reached with the order of two common-rail variants of the engine by Huta Marine of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as part of a diesel-electric system to power a self-propelled cutter suction dredger. Huta Marine is a specialist in [...]
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German-based luxury yacht builder Lurssen has launched the world’s largest yacht, the 180m long Azzam. With an estimated gross tonnage of 14,000GT and a price tag of $520 million, the Azzam is sailing into the record books. She left her drydock 11 month after her transfer last year and only 28 months from cutting steel! [...]
The significant milestone, celebration of the 20th anniversary and entering into Joint Collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard of Japan, was celebrated at a gala event which took place on the 26th of March 2013 at the Cinnamon Grand, Oak Room. Hon. Basil Rajapaksa, Minister for Economic development graced the occasion as the chief guest. Pioneer founder members [...]
Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewables industry, has announced the successful completion of construction of the wind turbine installation vessel, Windcarrier 2 “Bold Tern”. Having resolved all outstanding commercial issues, Lamprell has made delivery of the vessel to the client, Fred [...]
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Signal Ship Repair, a division of Signal International, Inc., recently attained a milestone of 1,000 days without a lost time injury, on January 30th, 2013. This significant milestone was achieved by the commitment of all Signal Ship Repair employees towards a safe work environment. Signal Ship Repair has several crafts which never had an injury, [...]
As the New Year deadline looms, Propulsion Dynamics has seen a 20% increase in ship numbers in its proven performance tool. Hull and propeller performance monitoring service CASPER has reached a milestone with the completion of its 5,000th report. Propulsion Dynamics’ Computerized Analysis of Ship PERformance (CASPER) compares ship performance from hull and propeller fouling [...]
In the beginning of September 2011 Seajacks awarded Conbit with the contract to engineer a solution for the handling of the monopiles for the Meerwind project. One year later the new jackup vessel was supplied, finished its first assignment and is equipped with all tools for its first big job. This project completion forms a [...]
With the dock laying of SylWin alpha, Nordic Yards has reached another milestone in the production of the offshore converter platform. In Warnemünde, the traditional ceremony – which is known as “keel laying” in the case of ships – was held in the presence of representatives of the client Siemens Energy and the end customer, [...]
Damen Shipyards has launched its newly designed ASD Tug 3212 at the International Tug and Salvage Convention (ITS) in Barcelona. This innovative and powerful tug in the 85 t BP range is the result of three years of research and represents a completely new Damen ship type and a milestone in ASD tug design. The [...]
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Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, has passed the unprecedented milestone of 100 million gross tonnage in ships with the delivery of the Cosco Faith for Seaspan on March 8th. The record was achieved just 40 years after the Company broke ground for the world’s biggest shipyard in Ulsan in March 1972. In [...]
