The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced that COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered one bulk carrier of 57000DWT, “OCEAN LADY” and one bulk carrier of 82000DWT, “DL ACACIA”, respectively to its European and Asian buyers. The delivery documents [...]
Specialist boatbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered the Njord Puffin to offshore windfarm service fleet operator Njord Offshore for deployment in Northern Europe. “The Puffin is the sixth in a series of eight vessels ordered, a strong signal of our commitment to the global windfarm industry,” said Rodney Davies, Operations Manager at Strategic Marine. “Last week [...]
General Dynamics NASSCO recently delivered USNS Montford Point (MLP-1), the lead ship of the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) class, to the U.S. Navy. The ship is named in honor of Camp Montford Point, the Jacksonville, N.C., site where the first African-American Marines were trained. Construction of the USNS Montford Point began in May 2011, incorporating [...]
Alnmaritec, the UK’s premier specialist boat builder, announced the recent delivery of a new 50 passenger ferry to the Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors JV who are currently building the Forth Replacement Crossing over the Firth of Forth for the client, the Scottish Government. The £790M new bridge will sit alongside the famous Forth Road and [...]
Ulstein Verft delivered ‘Blue Thunder’, the fourth of six medium-sized platform supply vessels of the PX121 design from ULSTEIN® to Blue Ship Invest, on Monday 13 May 2013. Owned by Blue Ship Invest, a wholly-owned company in Ulstein Group, the platform supply vessel (PSV) is commercially and technically under the management of Atlantic Offshore. ‘Blue [...]
Projects FPS – a division of FPS Sri Lanka, one of the country’s leading project forwarders – has handled the urgent shipment of six giant wind turbines from India, to a site 200km inland from the port of Colombo. The shipment – for Naladanavi Pvt Ltd, the largest private sector power supplier in Sri Lanka [...]
Rolls-Royce has delivered advanced deck machinery system for a highly specialised new Amazon-class seismic research vessel for WesternGeco, which is under construction at Flensburger Shipyard in Germany. The contract includes the supply of a control and back deck system for towing and handling of 18 streamer cables and a range of towing and handling equipment [...]
On the 29th of April 2013, Western Baltija Shipbuilding delivered a 2500 m3 TSHD turn-key dredger “Macuti“ to Johs. Gram-Hanssen A/S after a building period of 20 months. Extensive tests and trials of all systems kept Western Baltija Shipbuilding specialists busy in the last weeks. One week before the delivery, dredger “Macuti” was named at [...]
A key milestone has been marked with the delivery by Babcock of the final major component of the Integrated Waste Management System (IWMS) for the new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. The last of the six Waste Water Treatment Plants was delivered this month (April) following successful Factory Acceptance Testing. The Babcock-designed IWMS handles the [...]
The naming and delivery ceremony for MV YANGTZE OASIS, a new type 34.000 DWT bulk carrier, was held at CIC Lixin Shipyard on April 21th. It is the first cooperation between CIC Lixin Shipyard and New Yangtze Navigation (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. MV YANGTZE OASIS (LOA 179.9m, Breadth 29.1m) finished its sea trial on April 13th. [...]
