Seven Cryobox® LNG nano stations, designed and manufactured by Galileo, will fuel the tanks of the “López Mena”, the world´s first high speed passenger RO-RO ship powered by Gas Turbines fed on LNG, which will daily cross the River Plate between Argentina and Uruguay. It will also be the first time that a sea transportation [...]
It’s undeniable, that the port expansion trend in the Turkey and Black Sea region are continuing at steady pace. For Turkey only investment figures of 6.2 billion USD have been published. The 2nd Annual Port Expansion Summit 2013 (14 – 15 March 2013, Istanbul, Turkey) will feature the most prominent industry leaders and government officials [...]
Seatech Engineering has entered into a new contract with shipbuilder Crist S.A to prepare the workshop documentation for fish farms supply vessel design, which will be build for EWOS Group. The team of highly remarkably experienced engineers, designers and naval architects will provide the Project documentation using mainly Nupas-Cadmatic 3D designing system, AutoCAD, NAPA software [...]
Prospector Offshore Drilling S.A.(PROS), which has four jack-up rigs under construction in Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co. Ltd. (DSIC-Offshore), was informed on Wednesday that DSIC-Offshore has been notified by Friede & Goldman Marketing BV (F&G) to temporarily suspend work on the Rigs’ jacking systems, pending testing. F&G is the engineering firm that has designed the [...]
On the 14th of November 2012, Hvide Sande Skibs- & Baadbyggeri delivered a 50m ferry to Swedish domestic ferry company Ven-Trafiken. The vessel, named Uraniborg, will be operating between Landskrona in Sweden and the Swedish island Hven in the Øresund. Knud E. Hansen A/S has been responsible for the Basic Design of the new vessels [...]
The UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) shortly to announce the launch of a competition into vessel efficiency, with up to £8 million of funding available, opening for expressions of interest in January 2013. In view of the theme – Meeting Tier III and the Energy Efficiency Design Index – of the 3rd IMarEST Ship [...]
Drydocks World, the world leader prolific shipyard, will have a strong representation at Europe’s largest maritime exhibition, SMM being organized in Hamburg-Germany from 4th to 7th September 2012. This year’s event is the largest ever and is expected to attract visitors from all over Europe and beyond from the maritime and offshore industry, which is [...]
IHC Hydrohammer®, part of IHC Merwede, has been awarded a contract by Seaway Heavy Lifting to design and manufacture the S-2500 piling hammer, which is the largest ever built by the company. IHC Hydrohammer is delighted to be chosen as the supplier of this equipment and the order highlights the strong and reliable cooperation that [...]
SMIT announced the addition of a further two large vessels to its anchor handling tug fleet. Union Sovereign and Union Princess are rated at 180 tonnes bollard pull. The vessels are managed from SMIT’s Antwerp office and are manned by well trained, highly experienced crews with excellent SHE-Q records. These powerful anchorhandling/tugs are ideal for: [...]
Jorge Luis Quijano, incoming Administrator for the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), will give the opening address at this year’s TOC Container Supply Chain Americas conference, returning for the fourth time to Panama on December 4-6. Quijano, who officially takes up his new role on September 4, was named this March as the successor to Alberto [...]
