Seaspeed Marine Consulting was recently commissioned to undertake instrumented full scale sea trials on board a fleet of fast catamaran wind-farm support vessels, covering both calm water and rough water performance monitoring. The vessels ranged in size from 18 to 24 metres in length, all with speeds up to approximately 30 knots. For the calm [...]
On April 30th, 2013 the vessel ‘NEVA-LEADER 3′ set off on builder’s sea trials. The self-propelled dry-cargo vessel «NEVA-LEADER 3» (Yard Number 403) of 7150 dwt is being built at Nevsky Shipyard, LLC for North -Western Shipping Company, JSC. The project RSD49 is developed by Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb, JSC. RSD49 project vessels are multipurpose dry-cargo [...]
The FREMM frigate built for the Royal Moroccan Navy put to sea for the first time on 17 April. This key milestone marks the launch of sea trials, which will be conducted over the next few weeks off the Brittany coast. The ship will be delivered to the Royal Moroccan Navy at the end of [...]
April 19, 2013 | Posted in
Africa,
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News by topic,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipbuilding News,
Shipyard News,
Top Stories |
Read More »
China’s largest state of the art patrol vessel, the Haixun 01, has started its sea trials. The vessel was built by Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd, with the primary task of conducting search-and-rescue operations including investigation of maritime disputes and providing aid in case of maritime hazards, oil spillage etc. The 128.6 meter long vessel [...]
The Brazilian Navy’s latest BAE Systems built warship has set sail for the first time to be put through her paces on an extensive programme of sea trials off the UK coast. ARAGUARI, the third Ocean Patrol Vessel in the Amazonas Class, sailed out of Portsmouth this morning with her BAE Systems crew and Brazilian [...]
April 5, 2013 | Posted in
Americas,
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News by topic,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipbuilding News,
Shipyard News,
Top Stories |
Read More »
On March 22, the 35,000-DWT bulk carrier N366, built by COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard for Harbor Shipping, successfully completed three-day sea trials. In addition to meeting all conventional construction specification requirements, N366 is equipped with a new set of ballast water treatment system which meets the new requirements of NK classification society, making it possible for [...]
April 5, 2013 | Posted in
Asia Pacific,
Company News,
Featured,
News by topic,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipbuilding News,
Shipyard News,
South & Central Asia,
Top Stories |
Read More »
The 145,000 gt Norwegian Breakaway, the largest cruise ship to ever be built in Germany and Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest and most innovative ship to date, has completed her technical and nautical sea trials which took place off the coast of Norway and Denmark. Over the course of several days beginning on March 25, Norwegian [...]
March 31, 2013 | Posted in
Americas,
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News by topic,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Shipbuilding News,
Shipyard News,
Top Stories |
Read More »
Aluminium alloy fast ferry, bearing the Hull No. ASA037, of 3609 project, co-built by Afai Southern Shipyard and Damen Holland, successfully completed sea trials on March 20. The trials comprised various tests which determined the ship’s endurance, speed, crash stop distance, turning circle etc. The construction work of Afai was approved by Damen Holland and BV [...]
F.T. Agro Food-1, the largest fishing trawler in Bangladesh at present, built by Western Fishers Shipyard Ltd (WFSL), a joint venture between Western Marine Shipyard & Fishers Shipyard, successfully completed its trials in the Bay of Bengal last week. Western Marine Shipyard has provided the full technical know-how in this venture. F.T. Agro Food-1 is [...]
Arctic offshore vessel Aleksey Chirikov has left on sea trial for four days on 19 March 2013. Arctech Helsinki Shipyard is building two identical offshore icebreaking supply vessels for Russias largest shipping group Sovcomflot (SCF Group). The first vessel in the series, Vitus Bering, was delivered in December 2012 and has reached its destination at [...]
