Shipbuilding News


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…

Damen Wins Achievement Award

May 24, 2012

Kommer Damen Wins Lifetime Achievement Award at Seawork International 2012. Mr. Kommer Damen, Chairman of Damen Shipyards Group, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Seawork Innovation Awards Dinner. Seawork International…

Cruise Ship Returns to Erie Canal

May 23, 2012

Grande Mariner was Stranded on Canal System During 2011 Flooding.The M/V Grande Mariner, a 96-passenger cruise ship that was stranded for more than two months because of flooding in 2011, today returned to the Erie Canal for a new season of cruising America's most storied waterway…

Damen Launches its Longest (120m) Pontoon Ever

May 23, 2012

Damen Shipyards announced that it launched the first of its newly designed Stan Pontoon (SPo) 12032. The SPo 12032 is the longest pontoon ever built by Damen and part of a series of 34 pontoons currently being built. In addition, Damen Pontoons…

What’s Next?

May 22, 2012

The maritime industry goes from cycle to cycle, living with and by uncertainty. You could even say that our industry embraces risk. This means that “What’s next?” is always a relevant question – and one that gets some interesting responses. During Nor-Shipping 2011…

Five Minutes with Bill Clifford, President, BAE Systems Ship Repair

May 22, 2012

We recently spent some time with Bill Clifford, President, BAE Systems Ship Repair, to discuss his views How did you come to your current position?Clifford    I currently serve as the president of BAE Systems Ship Repair and have been in this position since 2008…

Nupas-Cadmatic Expands in Russia

May 17, 2012

Nupas-Cadmatic has started cooperating with Sea Tech Engineering Company to represent Nupas-Cadmatic in the Povolski FD. Sea Tech is located on the outskirts of Nizhniy Novgorod, a city well known as the “The capital of Large Volga”, due to its density of shipyards…

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