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JUNE 4, 2013 — Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has developed a containership design concept for Intra-Asian trade routes: the C-Dragon. C-Dragon measures 211.9 meters in length between perpendiculars and 37.3 meters in width with a loading capacity of 3,736 TEU. It targets actual Intra-Asian o ...

JUNE 4, 2013 — GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) has been awarded a contract by the Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Fla., to supply integrated diesel-electric power, propulsion and vessel control systems for two multipurpose supply vessels (MPSVs) with installed horsepower of 12,070 BHP (9,000 kW) on order for Horn ...

JUNE 4, 2013 — Recently launched by German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) for St. John's, Newfoundland headquartered Oceanex, Inc., the 210 m Oceanex Connaigra will be the largest Canadian flag Con/Ro ship on its delivery later this year. The ship has been designed to set new standards for innovation, flex ...

JUNE 4, 2013 — Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd through its subsidiaries Caspian Rigbuilders BV (an affiliated company of Keppel FELS) and Caspian Shipyard Company (CSC), has secured a contract from Caspian Drilling Company Ltd, a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), to build a semisubmersible drilling ...

JUNE 4, 2013 — Rolls-Royce Plc has signed a memorandum of understanding with Spanish shipping company Baleària, to design gas-powered propulsion systems for three of the company's high-speed ferries, which currently run on diesel. They are the the monohull HSC Ramon Llull, delivered by Italian shipbuilder Rodriquez C ...

JUNE 4, 2013 — The Navy yesterday awarded contracts for the construction of nine, (potentially ten) DDG 51 class ships over the FY 2013-2017 period. Huntington-Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding was awarded five ships, one in each year, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works was awarded four ships, one in FY 2013 and one each year in 2015-2017. ...

JUNE 4, 2013 — Impending new legislation to protect the environment potentially presents shipping with an additional industry-wide cost of more than half a trillion US dollars between 2015 and 2025.  This is around 50 billion dollars of additional capital and operating cost in every single year for a 10 year period and beyond. Tha ...

JUNE 3, 2013 — Christened in Oslo today as part of the Nor-Shipping opening events, the Island Crown is the 34th vessel designed by Rolls-Royce to be delivered to Island Offshore, in which the Chouest and Ulstein families are partners. Built at the Vard Brevik shipyard, and featuring equipment from mor ...

JUNE 3, 2013 — The SEACOR Lynx, recently delivered by Gulfcraft LLC, Franklin, LA, is now in service with SEACOR Marine. It is the first of two Incat Crowther designed 58 m catamaran crew boats ordered by SEACOR Marine and the third vessel in the SEACOR CrewZer series.. SEACOR Marine pioneered the use of large, fast catamarans ...

JUNE 3, 2013 — The Government of Canada has selected an off the shelf design based on the German Navy's Berlin class fleet oilers as the design for the Joint Support Ships being acquired for the Royal Canadian Navy. German Navy support vessel Berlin The Canadian Government sa ...