Austal continues to demonstrate its commitment to enhancing its support offering to the United States Navy and other navies active in the Asia-Pacific region, announcing new strategic partnerships with regional shipyards at the IMDEX Asia defence exhibition in Singapore this week. Following on from the strategic partnership with Singapore’s Sembawang Shipyard Pte Ltd announced in [...]
Over the next five years, Quest expects an 88% growth in floating production system (FPS) award levels illustrating a strong resurgence of investment in high-capital, major deep water developments. This growth coupled with current high levels of offshore rig construction will buoy oil & gas related utilization of major offshore fabrication shipyards to record levels. [...]
The future of the Melbourne-based Williamstown naval shipyard depends on the ability of the shipyard to keep the orders coming, since the company owner BAE Systems is considering closure or even scrapping of the shipyard if it fails to secure naval work beyond 2015, The Australian writes. Various steps are being discussed in order to [...]
As one of the first ballast water treatment systems, RWO’s CleanBallast has received the Alternate Management System (AMS) approval. This certificate is awarded by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and is considered to be the crucial supporting requirement for future purchasing decisions of shipowners and shipyards. Martyn Ayris, Managing Director of RWO commented satisfied [...]
Combined debt owed by South Korea’s seven largest shipyards spiked 44 percent last year as shipbuilders sought more loans from banks and debt sales to cope with falling demand, industry data showed Thursday. As Yonhap reports and according to the data, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Samsung Heavy Industries Co., and five other shipyards held a [...]
Austal, the Australian-headquartered global leader specialising in the design, construction and maintenance of high-performance vessels for defence and commercial purposes, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Unithai Shipyard and Engineering, Thailand’s premier shipyard. The MOU strengthens the companies’ cooperation and collaboration in sharing expertise and providing high-quality ship repair services to support defence [...]
OceanSaver is ripping up the rulebook of the ballast water treatment (BWT) industry to give shipyards and shipowners something that is truly unique for the sector – total certainty in an increasingly uncertain world. For just 10% of the cost of its market-leading BWT system, OceanSaver has announced that it will configure new ships for [...]
Safety lies at the heart of the vast majority of the guidelines published by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). The latest ‘Guidance on Safety in Shipyards’ (IMCA SEL 032/M 221) is certainly no exception to the rule. Offshore vessels are the platform from which offshore project operations are undertaken. Consequently vessel owners will take [...]
Traditional shipyards in Singapore are benefitting from booming oil and gas business, as work orders flow in for Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) and Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) conversions, states a new report by business intelligence experts GBI Research. The new report cites Singapore as the location of around 70% of conversions for [...]
For the third time in a row Jan de Nul Dredging chooses No Limit Ships Shipyards. After first having bought two survey vessels, they now opted for a No Limit 1640 Crewtender with thirteen passenger seats. For the next five years the vessel is expected to be deployed for various projects in European waters and [...]
