Central Industry Group (CIG) is a group of 10 companies, all providing industrial goods and services to the international shipbuilding market and to complex architectural projects. Shipkits and Vuyk Engineering Groningen, both subsidiaries of CIG, working together under the name CIG Shipbuilders, herewith proudly present the VG 6000-E, a unique ‘proven design’ solution for multipurpose [...]
Complex requirements that place increasing demands on efficiency are mission-critical challenges for tube forming applications too. This is particularly true for shipbuilding. The high investment in the tooling needed for forming machines has been an unnecessary cost driver – until now. A corresponding tool had to be available for every possible combination of tube geometry [...]
With funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and supported by “Projektträger Jülich” (PTJ), over the next three years Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and the maritime engineering company HeavyLift@Sea will conduct research into the improvement of tools for the simulation of offshore crane operations. The project is named HoOK – [...]
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited today announced that COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard, a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered one bulk carrier of 57.000 DWT, “OCEAN LADY” and one bulk carrier of 82.000 DWT, “DL ACACIA”, respectively to its European and Asian buyers. The delivery [...]
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Spanish shipbuilder and repair company Astilleros Armon SA recently delivered tug Cerro Itamut, the first out of 14 vessels that were ordered by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). The $158.3 million contract, awarded to the company offering the best value proposal, involved the construction, testing and staggered delivery of 14 tractor-type tugs of 70 tons. The [...]
Colfax Fluid Handling, a business of Colfax Corporation, has been awarded a contract as the exclusive supplier of hydraulic pumps for a ship capable of lifting the topside structures from offshore platforms. With a lifting capacity of up to 48,000 t, the ship will remove topsides in one piece and transport them to land for [...]
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A major milestone was reached on 23 February with the semi-launch of the first Triple-E at the shipyard in Okpo, Korea. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo Shipyard, South Korea is building the world’s largest ships – Maersk Line’s 400m long Triple-E container vessels. In order to make room for completing the next ships, the [...]
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A keel laying ceremony for new 40m ferry project (ASA040) was held at Afai Southern Shipyard on May 22, 2013. This is a brand new ship type jointly designed by Afai and its joint venture, i.e. CoCo Yachts Holland B.V.. The ferry, ordered by Shenzhen Pengxing Shipping Co.,Ltd., has the overall length of 40.0m, overall [...]
SinOceanic Shipping ASA has entered into a contract with Jinhai Heavy Industries, China, to build 10 x 8800 TEU state-of-the art super eco containerships for delivery from mid 2015. Upon delivery, all vessels will enter into long term, fixed charter parties. The vessels will be built to meet the latest IMO CSS Code for container [...]
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Two employees at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division were recognized this month at the CIO Leadership Event. Deborah Morewitz and Karen Ryan both received the annual Ones to Watch Award that identifies rising stars in information technology (IT). The awards, sponsored by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council, recognize IT professionals [...]
