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Statoil: Troll Redevelopment Contract Awarded

Sep 19, 2011

Statoil has awarded Aibel a contract for modules and modifications for two new pre-compressors on the Troll A platform in the North Sea. The contract is worth an estimated NOK 2.7 billon.Statoil and its partners in the Troll licence on the…

McGraw-Hill Education Selects SBS Worldwide for Freight Deal

Sep 19, 2011

Academic publisher, McGraw-Hill Education, has appointed SBS Worldwide as its freight forwarder and supply chain partner of choice for all inbound air and sea consignments. SBS will manage the logistics of cargo being delivered to the McGraw-Hill Education EMEA headquarters in Maidenhead…

First GPA-Designed Hopper Dredge Barge Launched for ACP

Sep 19, 2011

The first of five hopper barges, developed by Seattle-based Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA) was launched at Servicios Industriales de la Marina (SIMA) PERU S.A.   In 2010, GPA was awarded…

Globus Maritime Expands Fleet to Seven with Supramax Delivery

Sep 17, 2011

Globus Maritime Announces the Delivery of the Supramax 'Sun Globe,' Expanding Fleet to Seven Vessels. Globus Maritime Limited ('Globus' or the 'Company'), (NASDAQ: GLBS), a dry bulk shipping company, announced that it has taken delivery of the M/V 'Sun Globe…

The Eagle Has Landed - in Florida

Sep 16, 2011

Cranston Eagle, DBA Eagle Products, has signed an exclusive deal for Delta 'T' Systems to become the authorized U.S. agent for Eagle Products' full line of offload marine hooks. Known around the world for its high quality lifeboat and rescue boat hooks…

New ONR Policy Equalizes Opportunities for Contractors

Sep 16, 2011

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) published new guidance Sept. 15, aimed at preventing conflicts of interest among companies competing for business with the science and technology organization.'This new set of guidelines levels the playing…

$1.8B Contract for Two Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 Destroyers

Sep 16, 2011

The U. S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a $1.8 billion contract for the construction of DDG 1001 and DDG 1002, the next two ships in the Zumwalt-class program.  DDG 1001 is scheduled…

IHC Merwede Rents Out First IHC Beaver Dredger

Sep 15, 2011

IHC Merwede has entered the international rental market with its standard IHC Beaver dredgers and DMC work boats. The company has identified a demand in the market for vessels and equipment that may only be used for a relatively short period of time…

Bryan Nichols Joins Growing Vigor Shipyard Sales Team

Sep 14, 2011

Bryan Nichols, one of the leading maritime business development professionals in the Pacific Northwest, is joining forces with VIGOR Industrial, which owns and operates the premier shipyards in the region.Nichols joins VIGOR as a sales representative for the company…

Florida Inland Port Forges Alliance with JaxPort

Sep 14, 2011

This and recent agreements with Port of Miami and Port of Palm Beach solidify Florida Inland Port’s position as the premier inland port / integrated logistics center serving the southeastern U.S.  Florida Inland Port today announced the…

Rolls-Royce Wins Contract to Supply Water Jets for Indian Coast Guard

Sep 14, 2011

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a contract from India’s Cochin Shipyard to supply 60 water jets for a new fleet of 20 Fast Patrol Vessels for the Indian Coast Guard.The contract will involve the supply of Rolls-Royce Kamewa 71S3np water jets (three per vessel)…

Panama Canal and Port Freeport (TX) Sign MOU

Sep 13, 2011

PARTNERSHIP FORMS AN ALLIANCE OF COOPERATION TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH.In what is touted to be another one of a series of new agreements with U.S. ports, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and Port Freeport in Texas established a strategic…

Keppel to Build World’s Largest Sheerleg Floating Crane

Sep 13, 2011

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd (Keppel Nantong) in China has secured a contract worth S$143 million to build a heavy lift sheerleg crane vessel for Asian Lift Pte Ltd (Asian Lift)…

SungDong Expands Use of AVEVA Marine Solutions

Sep 12, 2011

SungDong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. Expands its Use of AVEVA Marine Solutions. Agreement to increase AVEVA Marine user licenses.AVEVA (LSE:AVV), a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant…

Keppel AmFELS Delivers Rowan Rig Ahead of Schedule

Sep 11, 2011

Keppel AmFELS LLC, a wholly owned US subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has completed the delivery of its fourth EXL jack-up rig to a subsidiary of Rowan Companies, Inc. (Rowan) (NYSE: RDC) with a perfect safety record…

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