Shipbuilding News


OSX Appoints New Shipyard Operations Officer

Jun 14, 2012

Mr. Danilo Baptista, who currently occupies the position of Executive Manager at OSX´s Açu Shipbuilding Unit (UCN Açu), has been nominated the new Shipyard Operations Officer replacing Mr. Eduardo Costa Vaz Musa. Mr. Baptista is one of the Company’s…

Jensen Design Longliner Reaches Construction Milestone

Jun 13, 2012

Jensen-Designed Commercial Longliner Fishing Vessel, Northern Leader, Achieves Construction Milestone; Environmentally Friendly Vessel is Ahead of Schedule Due to Jensen’s Advanced Production Engineering Services. One of the world’s largest commercial longliner fishing vessels…

RINA Updates GREEN PLUS Notation

Jun 12, 2012

RINA updates GREEN PLUS notation to cover transhipment terminals. International classification society RINA has updated its industry-leading GREEN PLUS notation to include new potential sources of pollution involving seagoing ships and ships operating at fixed locations…

Scituate Boat Works Opens Marine Services Building and Ship’s Store

Jun 08, 2012

Scituate Boat Works (SBW) recently completed the construction of a marine services building and Ship’s Store at the Scituate (Massachusetts) Town Marina. The new facility is the latest step in the process of revitalizing the town-owned marina…

Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) Welcome Mike Wood, PE and Matthew Roddy

Jun 06, 2012

Mike will serve as Senior Naval Architect in EBDG's New Orleans office and brings over 13 years of naval architecture and marine engineering expertise to the firm.   He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Louisiana with a…

Vale: Banking on Big in Brazil

Jun 04, 2012

A full range of risk awaits Vale’s new transport strategy. Are they on the right course? Vale do Rio Doce, the second largest mining company in the world, is facing various challenges in 2012. These include low iron ore prices in the international market…

Contract Awarded for First FLRSU

Jun 01, 2012

Wison Offshore & Marine Announces Award for construction of World’s First Floating LNG Liquefaction Unit.Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd., a subsidiary of the Wison Group, announced today the successful award of a contract by the Exmar group for engineering…

Austal Leads LCS Suppliers to Washington, DC

May 31, 2012

Discuss Future of Supporting the Program before Congress.Austal brought together representatives of over 50 suppliers from 25 states to build support for the future of the U.S. Navy’s LCS program. The representatives of the Independence…

Signal International Expands Sales Team at SSR

May 31, 2012

Signal International, Inc. announces the appointment of Tom Godfrey to the position of Domestic Sales and Marketing at the Signal Ship Repair (SSR) facility in Mobile, AL. Godfrey complements the sales staff with his 18 years of ship repair experience…

Drydocks World–Dubai Collaborates with Imperial College London

May 30, 2012

Dubai has joined hands with the Occupational Health and Environmental Respiratory Department of Imperial College London to conduct research which will focus on the respiratory health of Drydocks employees. Prof. Paul Cullinan, Head of Occupational…

Bollinger Receives the SCA “Award For Excellence in Safety”

May 30, 2012

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. was awarded the 2011 “Award for Excellence in Safety” by the Shipbuilders Council of America for the seventh consecutive year.  With focused efforts of continuous improvement, they also earned the 2011 SCA “Award for Improvement in Safety”…

Two New Ships for A.O. Schiffahrt

May 30, 2012

Christening of the “Caroline Oetker” and the “Ida Oetker” in ShanghaiOn Saturday, 19 May 2012, A.O. Schiffahrt celebrated the christening of the Kamsarmax bulk carrier Caroline Oetker at the yard of Taizhou Catic Shipbuilding, near Shanghai…

Qatar Shipyard Busy with 7 LNGCs

May 30, 2012

With seven LNG carriers drydocked at the facility, Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) is one of the leading shipyards for LNG repairs, leveraging on Qatar’s position as top LNG exporter.  As part of the Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard…

Ship Production Symposium Calls for Papers

May 29, 2012

The Ship Production Symposium in conjunction with SNAME’s 2012 Annual Meeting has an open “Call for Papers”. The SNAME 2012 Annual Meeting/Ship Production Symposium will be held on October 24‐26 in Providence, RI. Abstracts will be accepted until this Friday…

Kvichak Names Kirby as Proposal Manager

May 25, 2012

Kvichak Marine Industries in Seattle Washington announces the appointment of Kevin Kirby as their new proposal manager. Kevin has been with Kvichak for over 2 years as a project lead engineer.  His most recent projects include the recently launched 67’ Connor Foss Pilot Boat…

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