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Crowley Maritime Corporation has christened two new double-hulled petroleum tank barges, the 165-1 and 165-2, in a small ceremony at shipbuilder Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes, Wash. The vessels, which are the first double-hulled, environmentally friendly barges of their kind to operate in Western Alaska waters, will join Crowley's 180-1, a double-hull barge that has ...

Singapore's Keppel FELS Limited has secured contracts worth about US$393 million from returning customer Gulf Drilling International Ltd. of Qatar, They cover the construction of two high-specification KFELS B Class Bigfoot jack-up rigs. These latest contracts follow closely after Keppel FELS was awarded a newbuild jack-up rig contract by one of GDI's Shareholders, Japan Drilling ...

Cargotec is to supply two active heave-compensated (AHC) cranes for Volstad Maritime's large offshore construction vessel (OCV) on order at Bergen Group Fosen shipyard in Norway (hull 89.The contract covers a 250-tonne MacGregor AHC subse ...

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 ...