The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy is an initiative of the Canadian Government to build new ships for the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Coast Guard. Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards won the right to bid on the non-combat vessels under this strategy, and as such is proceeding with a $200 million Shipyard Modernization Program to support execution. [...]
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Seaspan Ship Management Ltd. (Vancouver) one of the leading container vessel managers, has chosen Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL) GL HullManager system to upgrade its in-house hull integrity management system. The condition based monitoring software will be implemented across Seaspan’s entire fleet of 76 vessels over the next several years. “We developed our own temporary Hull Structure [...]
On the first anniversary of the signing of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy’s (NSPS) umbrella agreements with Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax and Seaspan in Vancouver, CADSI re-affirms its support of the Government’s policy decision to build ships in Canada in order to obtain the vessels needed by the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Coast Guard [...]
After RWO’s CleanBallast system was considered as the first choice by Canadian shipowner Seaspan, the Bremen-based marine water treatment expert is proud to announce further contracts for its ballast water treatment system for Belgian and Canadian shipowners. Canada’s Canfornav will install the RWO system on four 36,000 dwt bulk carriers at Yangfan shipyard, and another [...]
Seaspan Corporation has signed contracts for the construction of four 10,000 TEU class newbuilding containerships at Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. The vessels are scheduled for delivery in 2014 and will be constructed using Seaspan’s fuel efficient SAVER design. Concurrently with executing the newbuilding contracts, Seaspan signed [...]
North America’s leading containership owner Seaspan, with a fleetserving customers in Asia, Europe and South America, caused quite a stir when it showcased its revolutionary SAVER (Seaspan Action on Vessel Energy Reduction) design of 10,000 TEU container vessels. Pursuing the aim of top-efficiency ship operation and improved operational performances, Seaspan has now decided to equip [...]
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Seaspan (Vancouver and Victoria Shipyards) will be using ShipConstructor CAD/CAM software on the non-combat portion of Canada’s Federal Fleet Renewal (FFR) contract. Under the original award, Seaspan will be building up to seven vessels for the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Coast Guard. Those vessels include two Joint Support Ships, one Polar Icebreaker, three Offshore [...]
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Seaspan’s North Vancouver shipyard will see a major redevelopment having kick-started a $200-million upgrade at a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, the Vancouver Sun writes. The costly make over will include completion of four new fabrication buildings, a shipbuilding gantry crane, and a load-out pier, all with one goal, namely to facilitate implementation of an $8 [...]
IFS North America announced that Seaspan has selected IFS Applications as its Shipbuilding materials requirements planning (MRP) solution. IFS Applications was chosen because it provides a powerful project-based solution (PBS) with the ability to control cost and schedule in real-time, enhancing Seaspan’s ability to efficiently meet customer requirements. This capability will help Seaspan deliver on [...]
Vancouver Shipyards has been awarded additional NSPS Vessels. Canadian Coast Guard has elected to spend $5.2 billion for the construction of additional ships under the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) program along with other capital expenditures as announced in last week’s Federal Budget. Under the original NSPS award from October 19, 2011, Vancouver Shipyards has [...]
