Today early in the morning, the mighty lift gate of ship assembly hall 290 at the Volkswerft shipyard in Stralsund (Germany) opened for the roll-out of the first of two RoRo special ships for the Danish shipping company DFDS. The construction phase “ship hull assembly” of the new vessel with the shipyard job number 500 [...]
On March 15, 2013, MSC FLAMINIA has left the Jade-Weser-Port in Wilhelmshaven. The vessel is put out to sea without any further occurrences and set a course for the North Sea. MSC FLAMINIA’s destination are the Daewoo shipyards in Mangalia, Romania, where the ship will be overhauled. The voyage to Romania is expected to take [...]
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The 71.300 GT cruise ship AIDAstella, MEYER WERFT latest newbuild, left the building dock I on Friday January 25th 2013. Later that day the ship was shifted into the shipard’s harbor and berthed at the outfitting quay. In the following days at the outfitting pier the last working activities, tests and trials will be carried [...]
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BLRT Grupp´s Turku shipyard has finished the repairs of oil tanker SCF Baltica. The specialists of ship-repair yard have dismantled machined, assembled back and balanced the shaft line and propeller (weight 35 tons) of the vessel. Also, main propulsion unit (B&W 7S60ME-C 16660 KW, 105 rpm, weight approximately 500 tons) was again aligned with shaft [...]
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The research ship POLARSTERN sets off in the early morning hours of 27 October 2012 for an unusual expedition to the Antarctic. This time the ship will not be returning to Bremerhaven as usual at the end of the Antarctic summer, but will be spending the winter in the South Polar Sea for research purposes. [...]
According to a government statement from this morning, 36 people were confirmed to have died in a ferry collision off Hong Kong that occurred at about 8:30 p.m. yesterday. What is more, 9 persons out of over a hundred people who were hospitalized had sustained grave injuries, the New York Times reports. A ferry with [...]
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CIC Changxing Shipyard has completed the repair works of MV Deniz-M, a bulk carrier owned by a Turkish company. The main repair works included the M/E cylinder overhaul, the repair of main sea water pump & ballast pump, the fire pump overhaul, the renewal of hatch cover rubber packing and the Cargo hold sand blasting [...]
A huge car carrier which has dominated the skyline at Falmouth Docks during August left the port, signaling the end of another successful ship repair contract for A&P Falmouth. M/V Autosky, which is capable of carrying 2,080 cars and commercial vehicles, has been in dock since August 2 for a range of work including repairs, [...]
Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced the departure of the hull of the first of the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) new amphibious ships from Ferrol in northern Spain. Mr Clare said the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) 01 hull will be transported to Melbourne, Australia, by the Heavy Lift Ship, Blue Marlin. The hull [...]
The Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the future USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), departed from the Marinette Marine Corp. shipyard in Marinette, Wis., Aug. 6, beginning its journey to her commissioning site in Galveston, Texas, before heading to her eventual homeport of San Diego, Calif. Fort Worth is the third littoral combat ship delivered to [...]
