ClassNK announced today that it had released the 2013 edition of the Rules and Guidance for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships. ClassNK continuously reviews, updates, and amends its technical rules and guidance as part of its ongoing efforts to improve the safety of life and property at sea, and to protect the marine [...]
STX Europe refers to the recent comments in the media about a potential sale of its shares in STX OSV Holdings Limited. The media comments will need to be addressed in market disclosure by the Company under applicable rules for SGX-ST listed companies. In order to ensure that consistent information is provided by the STX [...]
AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, has released the AVEVA Surface Manager 12.1, another new product in its AVEVA Marine portfolio. AVEVA Surface Manager allows the transfer of surfaces to and from external systems, by the use of neutral standards offering greater flexibility [...]
AVEVA , a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, has announced the release of AVEVA Design Reuse 12.1, a brand new product within the AVEVA Marine portfolio. AVEVA Design Reuse allows the quick and intelligent copying of ship design data to be reused on a similar [...]
The Maritime Administration has released a program that is going to provide grants for small shipyards. Under the Small Shipyard Grant program, there is currently $9,980,000 available for grants for capital and related improvements for qualified shipyard facilities that will be effective in fostering efficiency, competitive operations, and quality ship construction, repair, and reconfiguration. Grant [...]
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division released a shipyard safety music video featuring a song written by one of its shipbuilders. Shipfitter Alfred Flythe wrote “Safety First” for a safety song contest NNS sponsored over the summer. “The safety song contest provided a great opportunity for me to combine two of my passions: [...]
The Netherlands Ministry of Defence released the tender for construction and supply of 2 patrol craft for use by the Marine Corps, Security Division, with a steel or aluminum hull and a 5 person crew capacity. The main dimensions of the vessels are not strictly limited, except that the maximum depth should be less than [...]
Under the open procedure on Oct 15 2011 Finnish Navy, Merivoimien Esikunta, released tender worth 600.000 Eur for Hämeenmaa class mine-hunter ship R&M services. The scope of the work for Hämeenmaa class mine-hunter ship includes design, materials, fabrication, installation, deployment, and documentation. All works should be finished within 6 months from date of contract award. Tender Deadline: [...]
Romanian ministry of defence has announced tender for repairs and maintenance services to the naval vessels type Corvette class with associated works as required. The Ministry of National Defense is the specialized body of the central public administration submitted to the Government conducting the national defense activity according to the stipulations of law and to [...]
On September 3th The Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket) released tender for procurement of five pilot vessels. The Norwegian coastal administration will, as a part of a continual renewal process, procure a new pilot vessel with options for up to 5 further vessels. The vessels shall be built according to the same concept as the previously [...]