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Navy to Commission USS America

Oct 11, 2014

The Navy will commission its newest amphibious assault ship, USS America (LHA 6), during a 1 p.m. EDT ceremony Saturday, October 11, 2014, in San Francisco, California. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will deliver the ceremony's principal address…

Historic Cruise Ship Float Out in Finland

Oct 10, 2014

The Meyer Turku Oy yard in Turku, Finland, celebrated a historical day on October 10, 2014.Meyer Turku Oy, which officially changed ownership only three weeks earlier with the takeover by Papenburg, Germany cruise ship building power Meyer Werft…

Austal Expands to San Diego

Oct 09, 2014

Office to provide local support to LCS and JHSV programs.On October 8th, Austal celebrated the opening of our San Diego, Cal., Operations Office with a ribbon cutting ceremony.  Joining Austal’s representatives at the ceremony were Mayor Cheryl Cox of the City of Chula Vista…

Fallen Brazilian Tycoon Batista Faces the Law

Oct 08, 2014

A year after the epic collapse of his industrial empire, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista's financial and legal troubles appear far from over.Once worth more than $30 billion and listed as the world's eighth-richest man by Forbes Magazine,…

SHI Wins Order for Arctic Shuttle Tankers

Oct 08, 2014

Samsung Heavy Industries won an order amounting to USD 440 Million for Three Arctic Shuttle Tankers from a European shipper.  According to sources the order is from Russia’s state shipping firm Sovcomflot. The shuttle tankers will have a capacity of 42…

Keppel Bags Repeat Orders

Oct 08, 2014

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd wholly owned subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) and Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd have secured contracts from repeat customers worth a total of S$153 million.Keppel Shipyard's contract is…

Fast Repsonse Boat Sports Innovative Volvo Penta Power

Oct 07, 2014

First Commercial Vessel in North America with Triple IPS and Dynamic PositioningFort Ripley, a new offshore emergency response craft now entering service in Charleston, S.C., is reported to be the first commercial vessel in North America to be powered by triple Volvo Penta IPS drives…

Floating Out of Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth

Oct 07, 2014

HMS Queen Elizabeth was floated out of the Babcock dock in Rosyth (UK). Designed and built by BAE Systems and assembled by Babcock Marine, the HMS Queen Elizabeth is the biggest, and most powerful, surface warship ever to join the Royal Navy and capable of carrying up to forty aircraft…

Seaspan Shipyards Completes Repair Work on Historic Tug

Oct 06, 2014

Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards announced today it has completed volunteer repair work on the Steam Tow Boat Master (SS Master) as part of its $50,000 donation to the SS Master Society.                                                                              The historic tug…

Integrated LNG Solution for Ship Owners

Oct 06, 2014

WesPac Midstream LLC (WesPac), a provider of energy infrastructure and LNG solutions, announced a partnership agreement with Clean Marine Energy LLC (CME), the global facilitator of finance mechanisms for LNG conversion and Emission Control Area (ECA) compliance…

New Tugboat for Iskes Towing & Salvage

Oct 06, 2014

Iskes Towing & Salvage has taken delivery of a Damen ASD 3212 tug named Mercurius. To date the Netherlands-based tug operator’s fleet now includes three Damen builds, all built in the last four years. “We used the same leasing option (with Damen) with the Argus…

Agenda, Speakers for AVEVA Summit Announced

Oct 06, 2014

AVEVA today announced additional speaker, sponsor and agenda details for this year’s AVEVA World Summit. The global event is being held in Berlin, Germany, from 14-16 October. AVEVA customers from across the world’s process, plant, power…

COSCO Builds 3rd BigRoll MC Class

Oct 05, 2014

BigRoll Shipping announces that it has contracted COSCO Dalian Shipyard Co., LTD to build a third MC Class Module Carrier. She will be named BigRoll Baffin and is scheduled for delivery in June 2016.Bigroll Shipping last year in September…

2 Push Boats Delivered from Shipyard Gebr. Kooiman

Oct 05, 2014

Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman successfuly completed modification of two push boats, Imperial XV and XVI, in record time and delivered them to its new owner in Argentina on 26 th September. Initially, these push boats were designed for operation in West-European waters…

Osaka Gas Vessel Named "LNG Venus'

Oct 04, 2014

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. President: Koichi Muto) today announced the naming ceremony of 'LNG Venus', a newbuilding liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier held at the Nagasaki Shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; President: Shunichi Miyanaga…

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