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Wärtsilä has won contracts from shipbuilder Kleven Maritime of Norway to supply the design for the LNG powered platform supply vessel (PSV) recently ordered by Rem Offshore. The scope of the order also includes the propulsion machinery, automation and other equipment. ...

Incat Crowther has signed an agreement with Russian shipbuilder Pacifico Marine of Vladivostok for two catamaran ferry projects. The companies have formed a relationship that sees the design company assist Pacifico Marine to serve the Russian market with proven designs. Both companies are hard at work to secure further orders to follow the initial two vessels. ...

The U.S. Department of Justice says that Dimitrios Grifakis, 57, of Kallithea, Greece, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Baltimore to obstructing a Coast Guard inspection that took place aboard the M/V Capitola from May 3 to May 11, 2010. Grifakis was then the Chief Engineer of the Capitola.The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland R ...

Clarkson Investment Services, the investment banking arm of Clarksons PLC (London Stock Exchange: CKN), says that its U.S. operation Clarkson Capital Markets has further expanded its operations by hiring a capital markets and energy banking team.The newly appointed energy team is led by James Bell and Robert Parker, who have an aggregate of over 30 years of domestic and i ...

Marine environmental consulting firm, CSA International, Inc. says that through its relationship with Bordelon Marine Inc., of Lockport, La., Cit) has developed a fully equipped fleet of offshore environmental and oceanographic DP survey vessels ranging from 110 ft to 170 ft.  The fleet is based at CSA's Marine Base in Houma, La., which is fully staffed with logistics and tech ...

Responding to the increased technical sophistication of drillships and other mobile  offshore drilling units and with the greater regulatory oversight of offshore drilling, ABS has developed new classification standards and notations intended to provide MODU operators with increased confidence that their operations are being conducted to the highest demonstrable standards. ...

The maritime administration of Antigua and Barbuda has been certified according to ISO 9001 by GL Systems Certification. On behalf of Germanischer Lloyd, Vice President GL North and Central America Stephen Gumpel handed over the certificate to the Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS), in the presence of the Prime Mini ...

The acting President and Chairman of STX Finland, Mr. Su-Jou Kim, has decided to reorganize STX Finland´s management group to improve the efficiency, synergies and competitiveness of STX Finland. The shake-up comes two weeks after Mr. Kim, who is CEO of STX Europe, announced the departure of Juha Heikinheimo  as President. At the time, the company said that STX Finlan ...

Norway's Statoil is sending out an invitation to tender for a new type of drilling rig. It is specially designed by the industry on behalf of Statoil for mature fields on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The purpose is to make drilling and completion of production wells less expensive, more effective and safer, and thereby boost oil recovery. ...

China's Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Co. Ltd. has awarded Norwegian naval architect firm Inocean a contract for development and basic design of a new compact ultra deepwater drillship, INO-80, suitable for global operation. The design is being introduced to the market for the first time in Houston at OTC 2011. ...