Simon Møkster goes to Astilleros Gondwan for PSV newbuild

JUNE 25, 2012 — Norway’s Simon Møkster Shipping AS has selected Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan to build an advanced platform supply vessel of UT776 WP design that it is to charter to

Wärtsilä Hamworthy to supply waste water treatment systems for P&O Cruises newbuild

JUNE 25, 2012 — Wärtsilä Hamworthy has won a contract from Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A. to supply two Membrane BioReactor (MBR) advanced waste water treatment systems to a 3,611 passenger cruise

BIMCO taps Admiral Brian Salerno as Washington, D.C., liason

JUNE 25, 2012 — BIMCO announces today that the organization’s new U.S. Liaison Officer is to be Vice Admiral Brian Salerno, who this month retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as its

Odfjell gets back into gas tanker market

JUNE 25, 2012 — Norway’s Odfjell is adding a couple of gas tankers to its fleet of some 96 chemical tankers. It has acquired two modern 9,000 cu.m LPG/Ethylene gas carriers from

Russia’s United Shipbuilding gets $1 billion order for Sovcomflot seismic ships

 25, 2012 — Russia’s RIA Novosti reported Friday that United Shipbuilding Company (OSC) is to build four seismic ships for Sovcomflot. The news agency reported OSC Deputy General Director Roman Trotsenko as

Kirby lowers earnings guidance

JUNE 22, 2012 – Tank barge giant Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX) announced today that it expects 2012 second quarter net earnings to be in the $.80 to $.85 per share range, below

Arison sees start of “resurgence in consumer demand” for Costa

JUNE 22, 2012 – Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) revenues continue to be impacted by the Costa Concordia tragedy, but this is being partly offset by improved yields from

Ship demolition prices plummet says Braemar Seascope Research Director

JUNE 22, 2012 —Mark Williams, Research Director of Braemar Seascope, says that demolition prices for elderly ships have fallen by a quarter so far this year and shipowners he encourages shipowners to

FSG to build new design RoPax ferry for Caledonian Maritime Assets

JUNE 22, 2012 — German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (FSG) has booked its second newbuilding order this month. The new contract comes from Scotland’s  Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL)

Chevron contracts a third Pacific Drilling deepwater drillship

JUNE 22, 2012 — Pacific Drilling S.A. (NYSE: PACD) reports that its ultra-deepwater drillship Pacific Sharav has been awarded a five-year contract by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. for operations in the U.S. Gulf

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