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China's Sinopacific Shipbuilding reports that its Zhejiang Shipyard started work May 9 on the manufacture of the first in a series of SPP17 PSV offshore support vessels for Paris-headquartered Bourbon Company. The platform supply vessel is the eighth ship to be manufactured on the company's small ship line, and  is to be ABS classed.The SPP17 PSV has been designe ...

The Gard P&I Club has reminded shipowners that May 1, 2011 saw the entry into force of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) - Special Area under MARPOL Annex V: Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Garbage.Under MARPOL Annex, V Regulation 5(1)(h), the WCR is defined as: "The Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea proper including the bays and seas therein and that portion o ...

Singapore-listed, Norwegian headquartered shipbuilder STX OSV Holdings Limited announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011 that included an increase of 21percent in operating revenue to NOK 3,192 million. EBITDA jumped 54 percent  to NOK 439 million.New order intake for the quarter totaled NOK 1,182 million, including three new PSVs slated to be deli ...

Metro Machine Corp., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $78,836,991 modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-4416) for amphibious landing ship USS Ashland's (LSD 48) modernization, upgrades, preservations, and alterations in support of the multi-ship, multi-option (MSMO) LSD mid-life extension.  The LSD MSMO was developed to provide extended drydocking, m ...

Still one of the world's largest cruise ships, Princess Cruises' Grand Princess is back in service with a new, somewhat sleeker, look. The ship sailed from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, following a 24-day drydocking at Grand Bahamas Shipyard said to be the most extensive drydocking in Princess Cruises history. The operation included the removal of Skywalkers ...

Norway's SpareBank 1 SR-Bank is looking for "long term ownership solutions" for two seismic vessels. Presumably that's bank speak for "looking for a buyer."On Friday, May 6, Artemis Shipping AS, which is wholly owned by SpareBank 1 SR-Bank, entered into an agreement with Bergen Oilfield Services AS (BOS)  to take over the two seismic vessels "Artemi ...

Braemar Shipping Services Plc Group has announced what CEO Alan Marsh calls "a very exciting development for the technical division" -- the GBP 2.4 million purchase of the business and certain assets of BMT Marine and Offshore Surveys Limited (BMTMOS).BMTMOS provides Hull and Machinery, P&I and Marine Warranty survey services around the globe; clients operate primar ...

NAVSEA announced Friday that it had terminated for convenience the LPD 17 Class multi-ship, multi-option (MSMO) maintenance contract with prime contractor Earl Industries, LLC (Earl) of Norfolk, Va.   According to a NAVSEA release, the termination is a complete termination of all work in process as well as options for future work over a five-year period.&n ...

EU Naval Force (Eu Navfor) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) have collaborated to develop an integrated maritime monitoring service (MARSURV) to allow Eu Navfor to track merchant vessels in the pirate-infested High Risk Area off the coast of Somalia.The monitoring service has been designed to fuse multiple sources of ship specific informat ...

The U.K.'s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its report on the investigation of the fire and explosion on board Yeoman Bontrup at Glensanda Quarry, Loch Linnhe in western Scotland on July 2, 2010, when the Bahamian- registered, self-unloading (SUL) bulk carrier was loading cargo loading. The fire spread rapidly, resulting in signi ...