Shipyard News

Meyer Werft has undocked the latest addition to the Disney Cruise Line fleet. The 128,000 grt, 1,115 ft x 125 ft Disney Fantasy was slowly floated out of the shipyard's  covered building dock on Sunday, January 8.The second of two post-Panamax cruise liners ordered by Disney from the German shipbuilder, the Disney Fantasy is the fourth cruise liner in the Disney Cruise L ...

Keppel AmFELS LLC, Brownsville, Texas, has secured a contract from Diamond Offshore to construct and upgrade a moored semisubmersible offshore drilling rig with delivery scheduled for third quarter 2013. The estimated shipyard contract price is approximately $150 million. However, Diamond Offshore says total cost, including commissioning, spares and project management, but excludin ...

Boston Ship Repair, L.L.C., Boston, Mass., a unit of Northeast Ship Repair, was recently awarded a $9.22-million, firm-fixed-price contract for a 60-day regular overhaul/dry-docking of Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort.Northeast Ship Repair President Edward Snyder ...

Gibraltar ship repair yard Gibdock has added to its reputation as a Mediterranean cruise ship repair and refurbishment center with the recent docking of the 42,255 gt, 1992-built Pullmantur Zenith. The vessel arrived in Gibraltar November 7 for work that had to be completed within tight time constraints and left on schedule on November 20th, en route to Brazil for its next ...

China's COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Co. Ltd. has secured a contract valued over $220 million from an Asian company to build two Self Propelled Pipelay Heavylift Offshore Construction Vessels.

The vessels are scheduled for delivery from the shipbuilder in the fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014 respectively.

January 5, 2012

Signal International L.L.C. says it has received news of "a complete victory" in a case against the company pending in the Eastern District of Louisiana that alleges human trafficking, slave labor and fraud, among other claims. United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey has denied class c ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, Newport News, VA, has assumed responsibility for maintenance services at the Kenneth A. Kesselring Site in West Milton, NY.NNS was awarded the contract in September 2011 by Bechtel Marine Propu ...

South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy has released its trade figures for 2011. Korea’s exports increased 19.6 percent year on year to a record $557.8 billion and imports gained 23.3 percent to a record $524.5 billion—a $33.3 billion trade surplus.Exports from Korean shipbuilders played an important role in achieving the new record. Ships were, by value, the most sig ...