In addition to the announcement covering three newbuilding units made by Ultrabulk on March 19 th, Ultrabulk now confirms having added five further units to its long term fleet. The new units are one additional 61,000tdw Supramax bulker to be built at a Japanese yard and scheduled for delivery 2016, joined by another 81,000tdw Kamsarmax [...]
Sluggish newbuilding market has proven a great time to invest for the long-term, especially for Wisdom Marine Group, one of the largest bulk ship owners in Taiwan, that decided to add nine new dry bulk carriers to its expanding fleet. Three Japanese shipyards, those being Sasebo Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co Ltd and [...]
Wan Hai Lines held a christening ceremony for the latest addition to its fleet, a 4,680 TEU container ship “WAN HAI 516″. The ceremony was organized at CSBC CORP., TAIWAN Kaohsiung shipyard on April 10th, Mr. Po Ting Chen, Chairman of Wan Hai Lines presided over the ceremony. There is a total of 14 vessels [...]
The NOL Group welcomed on March 25 its newest, largest, and most environmentally – friendly vessel to its fleet. The 14,000 – TEU (twenty – foot equivalent unit) container ship was officially named APL Temasek, built by Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), at a ceremony in Singapore by Mrs Mary Tan, spouse of the Republic’s [...]
On Saturday Feb. 23rd, MRV Ocean Response enters Atlantic Offshore’s fleet. Immediately, following the naming ceremony at Bryggen in Bergen, she will head to the North Sea and operate for Statoil. The newbuild cost is approx. NOK 330 million (USD 58.2 million) This is the third newbuild delivered to the company. CEO Roy Wareberg said [...]
On the afternoon of Sept. 21, a delivery ceremony was held for the HUA CHI, a 48K class crude and product tanker built by Guangzhou Shipbuilding International. During the delivery ceremony, respectively on behalf of China Shipping Tankers and Guangzhou Shipbuilding international, Deputy GM Chen Jian and Deputy GM Yang Li signed the delivery documents. [...]
Last Thursday, on September 20th 2012, Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) took delivery of VOS Atlanta. This new addition to the VOS fleet was delivered from Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. VOS Atlanta is a 59-metre “A class” anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel and the second of three vessels being built at this yard for [...]
The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, officially welcomed a new addition to the fleet, on August 24, at a naming and dedication ceremony for Canadian Coast Guard Ship Vladykov in St. John’s. In 2010, construction of the CCGS Vladykov began in Matane, Quebec at the Méridien Maritime Inc. shipyard. Sea trials [...]
Subsea 7, a global leader in seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services to the offshore energy industry, has added the specially adapted new build Jack-up accommodation and crane barge, the Seven Inagha, to its fleet. The Seven Inagha is effectively a vessel with legs and, unlike most conventional jack-ups, can mobilise to a work site under [...]
Vroon Offshore Services announce that they have taken delivery of a new addition to their offshore fleet. The VOS Thalassa, a 1,400 dwt anchor handling tug support (AHTS) vessel built at the Fujian SouthEast Shipyard in China, was delivered yesterday, 2 May 2012, from the Shipyard. VOS Thalassa will leave the Shipyard on Monday 7 May. [...]
