Shipyard News

Jacques de Chateauvieux's Jaccar Holdings is selling its 25 percent stake in Sinopacific Offshore and Engineering to Pearlfine Ocean Worldwide, which joins Evergreen Holding Group and Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group (in which Jaccar remains a 23 percent shareholder) in the new shareholding structure. Sinopacific Offshore an ...

Rotterdam headquartered Jumbo Shipping has confirmed an order for a second new K-class heavy lift vessel, with an option on a third, to complement its existing fleet. The K-class vessels are being built at the Brodosplit shipyard in Split, Croatia. The design incorporates Finnish-Swedish ice class 1A (thus ideal for projects in ...

A Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) subsidiary has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of Korean shipbuilding giant Hanjin Heavy Industries. Under the agreement, Huntington Ingalls subsidiary AMSEC and Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines, Inc. (HHIC-PHIL) will work together in providing maintenance, r ...

Kvichak Marine Industries, Seattle, has recently delivered Patrol 9, a 45 ft Response Boat Medium – C (RB-M C) to the Seattle Police Department Harbor Patrol Unit (SPD). Patrol 9 is the 500th hull built at Kvichak's Ballard facility and will be based at the Harbor Patrol's facility on nearby Lake Union. Kvichak is currently buil ...

Canada's Seaspan Marine Corporation has entered into a technology support agreement with Korean shipbuilding giant STX Offshore and Shipbuilding Company Ltd. Seaspan says the partnership will optimize Vancouver Shipyard's planned facilities upgrades in support of the recently awarded $8 billion Non-Combat National Shipbuilding Pro ...

Mr. Ang Kok Tian, Chairman and Managing Director of Singapore based ASL Marine Holdings, Ltd., reports that the group is maintaining its order winning momentum.Today, ASL, whose shipbuilding and repair operations include shipyards in Singapore, Batam (Indonesia) and Guangdong (China), announced it had secured contracts worth S$132.5 m ...

Collaboration between the Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and industry has identified numerous potential savings in the shipbuilding process. A pilot project to prioritize efficiency efforts could be implemented this year and, already, Rear Adm. Thomas Eccles, Naval Sea Systems Command chief engineer and deputy commander for Naval Systems Engineerin ...

"IHC Merwede," says Denis Welch, the company's Regional CEO for Southeast Asia, "is not just a shipbuilder per se, but also an aggregation of engineering and manufacturing companies, which combines to provide unique and value-added solutions to its customers." Speculation is growing that the "aggregation" c ...