Shipyard News

Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY), one of the world’s leading shiprepairers, opened its doors to more than 400 guests, including a group of international journalists earlier this month as part of ceremonies marking its 35th anniversary.Established as the first ship repair facility in the Arabian Gulf designed for super tanke ...

IHC Merwede reports that it has recently secured orders worth €200 million for advanced vessels and equipment in its core dredging and offshore markets. The latest agreements confirmed by IHC Merwede include: a new pipelaying vessel for Subsea 7; an engineering and components package for the build of a trailing suction hopper dredge at BAE Systems (USA); an environmentally friendly ...

The Lake Carriers Association says that more than 1,200 boilermakers, welders, electricians and other craftsmen will have jobs this winter maintaining and modernizing U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters. The major U.S.-flag operators will invest more than $75 million in their 56 vessels when they lay up between late December and mid-January so the fleet will be ready to ...

Germany's ThyssenKrupp AG reports that it signed a purchase and sale agreement with U.K.-based Star Capital Partners on December 11, 2011. The sale concerns the companies Blohm + Voss Shipyards, Blohm + Voss Repair (including Blohm + Voss Oil Tools) and Blohm + Voss Industries as well as their subsidiaries. Star Capital Partners will continue the operations at all sites. ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has released a shipyard safety music video featuring a song written by one of its shipbuilders. Shipfitter Alfred Flythe wrote "Safety First" for a safety song contest NNS sponsored over the summer. ...

The U.S. Maritime Administration has announced that $9.98 million in federal funding is now available through its Small Shipyard Grant Program to help enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of qualified small U.S. shipyards.  The grants are available for capital and related improvements projects that foster efficiency, and competitive operations; quality ship constructi ...

Former Drydocks World Southeast Asia CEO Denis Welch is joining IHC Merwede as its new CEO for Southeast Asia. Mr. Welch, who left Drydocks World in 2010 to set up a consultancy,  be responsible for helping IHC Merwedeto reinforce its regional identity and expand its Asian-centered operations – which are focussed on its offshore and marine activities.  IH ...

This past September, Gibraltar-based shiprepair yard Gibdock drydocked the 3,000 grt offshore survey vessel Boa Galatea for Norway’s Boa Offshore. This is the first time that the family-owned Boa Offshore business, which operates a fleet of over 40 offshore vessels, has used Gibdock, and comes hard on the heels of other offshore vessel contracts h ...