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A sweeping series of management appointments at ABS, effective July 1, will position a new generation of executives that, says, the classification society "will help define the role and scope of class in the future." These moves closely follow the appointment of Christopher J. Wiernicki as the new Chief Executive Officer. The appointments, along with the recent naming of Todd Grove as ...

NYK Line's solar-power-assisted car carrier Auriga Leader (60,213 gross tons) will in June be used for shipboard tests of a newly developed hybrid power supply. The car carrier will also be fitted with a ballast-water management system and adapted to use low-sulfur fuel. ...

Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) recently announced it was awarded a $600 million contract to build two 155,000 m3 LNG carriers, including an option for another same class vessel, from Dynagas Ltd., Athens, Greece. These membrane-type LNG carriers are due for delivery in the second half of 2013. They will feature the Dual Fuel Die ...

Israel's Ofer Brothers Group and others "should have known" they were providing sanctionable goods or services to Iran, according to the U.S. Department of State. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week imposed the first sanctions for refined-petr ...

General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego has received a $744 million modification to its Navy contract for the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP)  to fully fund construction of the first two ships of the new ship class. Construction of the first ship will begin immediately, with delivery to occur by the spring of 2013. The contract includes an option for the construction of a third MLP w ...

DNV has participated in a joint industry project to develop Ecore, a Very Large Ore Carrier concept designed to lower fuel costs and improve loading efficiency. Based on existing technology, the Ecore concept is said to be a step change in VLOC design. Powered by two-stroke dual fuel ME-GI engines, this concept features a more ballast friendly hull shape, a large center cargo ho ...

Harvey Gulf International Marine recently launched the first in a series of three Green 300 ft offshore support vessels at Eastern Shipbuilding. Panama City, Fla. It took the launch ceremony as the occasion to announce  it has reached agreement with Eastern to build a 310 ft multi-purpose light construction vessel. And it said it plans to build two dual fuel platform supply vess ...

Drydocks World reports that it has signed a contract with Mumbai, India, based construction group, Afcons Infrastructure to provide detail engineering, procurement, construction and delivery of a self-elevating platform, AF SEP Samrat.The 45 m long flat bottom pontoon barge, which will be built at the Dubai facility, can be jacked up with four spuds and a jacking sy ...

Austal Limited (ASX:ASB) says it has reviewed its internal forecast for the full year ended June 30, 2011. It now expects net profits after tax to be in the range of A$20 million to A$23 million, which is below market expectations.The shipbuilder says this is a direct consequence of the unprecedented strength of the Australian dollar and its impact on Austal's Hender ...

U.S. Sen. David Vitter has sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announcing that he is holding up legislation in the U.S. Senate that would give Salazar a $19,600 per year pay raise. In light of BOEMRE Director Michael Bromwich's recent admission that his department has only issued one new deepwater exploratory drilling permit since the moratorium was formally lifted in Octobe ...