The newly-built 62-meter Sea Owl exits the Feadship shipyard for sea trials.Although the official launching is not scheduled until July, her service launch offers the first daylight glimpse of Sea Owl’s signature jade mist green and oyster white colour scheme…
MARIS and Orange Business Servicesa sign agreement to facilitate integrated and digital maritime navigation services.Maritime technology specialist MARIS and Orange Business Services have formalized an agreement to deliver Electronic Chart…
W. P. Carey Inc., a provider of corporate sale-leaseback financing, has acquired the R&D and class-A office facilities of Cargotec Corporation in Tampere, Finland.The premises are subject to a 20-year triple-net lease with the company. The total acquisition cost of the 183…
ABS released the ABS Ship Energy Efficiency Measures Advisory to provide guidance on the wide range of options available to improve vessel efficiency, reduce fuel consumption and lower emissions. The Advisory assists owners, operators and other…
Rolls-Royce Plc signed a memorandum of understanding with Spanish shipping company Baleària to design gas-powered propulsion systems for three of the company’s high-speed ferries, which currently run on diesel.Baleària, which operates ferry…
Student teams from seven maritime universities have submitted proposals for the designcompetition for Safe Affordable Ferries sponsored by the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA).A panel of six judges will review the submissions and will announce the winners by early Fall 2013…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build a 7th pea-pod superstructure shape 'Sayaendo' LNG carrier for a 'K' Line/INPEX subsidiary joint venture.Sayaendo series ships feature a unique structure that integrates the LNG tank cover with the ship hull…
Rolls-Royce signs extensive equipment orders with Italian cruise ship builder Fincantieri for Viking Cruises' 2 newbuildings.Viking Cruises recently ordered two cruise ships from Fincantieri and have chosen the highly-efficient Rolls-Royce integrated rudder and propulsion system…
Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division awarded a fixed-price incentive, multi-year contract for construction of 5 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG 51s) for the U.S. Navy. The contract has a total value of $3.33 billion and includes options for engineering change proposals…
The famous Gdansk shipyard is once again in trouble as Its new Ukrainian operator has run out of money to pay wages.In its golden years, the 1980s, 17,000 people worked in Gdansk shipyard, reports Deutsche Welle.Those times are long gone…
The wreck of the anchor handling tug 'Jascon 4', which sunk while on static tow of a tanker 15 Nm offshore Escravos, Nigeria, has now been abandoned for safety reasons.The owners, West African Ventures, report that the search and rescue operation that has been underway since 26 May…
IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) meets at its London Headquarters for its 92nd session from 12 to 21 June 2013. Amongst other matters of moment the meeting will have a focus on passenger ship safety provisions, as set out in a preview…
Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Caribbean logistics group is now offering regularly scheduled, weekly less-than-containerload (LCL) services to and from San Juan, Puerto Rico, & select countries within Central America. The new service utilizes…
Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce announces 11 sailing schooners will visit the harbor for 'Windjammer Days'.The 2013 Windjammer Days are scheduled to take place June 25 and 26, 2013, with the schooners appearing in Linekin Bay on Tuesday the 25th and in the harbor on Wednesday the 26th…
The IMO Symposium on the Future of Ship Safety will be held 10 & 11 June, 2013, at IMO Headquarters in London. The symposium will include six international panels of high-level speakers from across the broad spectrum of ship design, construction…