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Norway: Eidesvik Christens Newbuild LNG Powered Vessel

Norway: Eidesvik Christens Newbuild LNG Powered Vessel

Eidesvik new building, Viking Princess, was named in an official ceremony in Bergen, Norway, on September 14th Lady sponsor of the vessel is H.K.H. Crown Princess Mette-Marit. Viking Princess is by ggnr. 347 from Kleven Shipyard, and is the sister ship to Viking Prince, which was delivered in March this year. Eidesvik Offshore and Kleven [...]

France: PIRIOU Receives Order for Maritime Training Ship

France: PIRIOU Receives Order for Maritime Training Ship

PIRIOU registers an order for a Maritime Training Ship (MTS) to be operated by navOcéan, a joint company created by PIRIOU and DCI. This 44-meter ship will be delivered in autumn 2013 and will be named «Almak» («desert lynx») as a star of the constellation of Andromeda. Construction will be ensured by CHANTIERS PIRIOU, the [...]

South Africa: KND Wins Design Contract for New Interceptor

South Africa: KND Wins Design Contract for New Interceptor

KND has been awarded a design contract for a new 14m Interceptor. KND has taken a deep plunge, not just designing a remarkable new Interceptor, but also moved away from the traditional way of placing transverse and longitudinal frames. KND’s new method will increase the fairness of the topside and hull bottom plates. All this [...]

Germany: Raytheon Anschutz Steering Gear Control for Carnival Corporation

Germany: Raytheon Anschutz Steering Gear Control for Carnival Corporation

The German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz has won a contract about the supply of NautoSteer Advanced Steering Gear Control Systems to two prototype cruise ships. The cruise ships are being built at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard for the British-American Carnival Corporation. Carnival will operate the new cruise ships under their Princess Cruises brand. At 141,000 [...]

PSV ‘Blue Prosper’ Commences Its First Job (UK)

PSV ‘Blue Prosper’ Commences Its First Job (UK)

PSV ‘Blue Prosper’ went straight into service offshore Scotland after it was delivered from Ulstein Verft on Thursday 6 September. After arriving in Aberdeen on Sunday, the Blue Ship Invest-owned ship commenced its first spot contract on Monday 10 September, and has been in service since. The captain reports after the transit from Norway and [...]

GL Expands Perspectives Built Upon Tradition

GL Expands Perspectives Built Upon Tradition

The Hellas Committee of Germanischer Lloyd (GL) met on Wednesday at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, Athens. The annual Committee Meeting, now a longstanding tradition in its 35th year, very much reflected the mood of the industry, with great challenges foreseen for traditional markets, but opportunities on offer for those with expanding perspectives. The Chairman of [...]

SSP Offshore Enters MoU to Pursue FPSO Projects in Brazil and West Africa

SSP Offshore Enters MoU to Pursue FPSO Projects in Brazil and West Africa

SSP Offshore announces that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (the “MOU”) with a new strategic partner to jointly pursue floating storage, production and offloading (“FPSO”) projects in Brazil and internationally based on the Corporation’s proprietary round SSP designs. The new strategic partner is an entity with extensive experience in the fabrication, installation [...]

China: Lion AHTS Takes Delivery of New Vessel Built by Yuexin

China: Lion AHTS Takes Delivery of New Vessel Built by Yuexin

On 21st, August of 2012 , 58.7m AHTS ADS ARENDAL built by Yuexin Ocean Engineering has been Delivered to Lion AHTS AS Company successfully. Applying the preliminary design of KHIAM CHUAN MARINE, the vessel is built under the survey of Bureau Veritas. It measures in length of 58.7m with 14.6 breath moulded and 4.5m max [...]

BMT Nigel Gee, Claydon Reeves Present Project Oxygen (UK)

BMT Nigel Gee, Claydon Reeves Present Project Oxygen (UK)

BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of the BMT Group, has announced its latest design, developed in partnership with Claydon Reeves. With her state-of-the-art Extreme Semi-SWATH (XSS) hullform, Oxygen redefines the explorer yacht genre, offering outstanding speed and seakeeping performance with the luxury and facilities of a true superyacht. Equipped for all manner of pursuits, Oxygen’s [...]

Lurssen Denies Cooperation Agreement with Drydocks World

Lurssen Denies Cooperation Agreement with Drydocks World

Fr. Lürssen Werft announces that it wants to make it very clear that no agreement has been made with Drydocks World in Dubai in any way. Lürssen says that it is surprised and displeased by the press releases and the content. Contrary to the announcement of Drydocks World in Dubai, Lürssen wishes to clarify that [...]





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