JUNE 18, 2012 — Nakilat (Qatar Gas Transport Company) Nakilat has assumed full responsibility for the management and operations of its four VLGCs (very large gas carriers), adding in-house ship management and
JUNE 18, 2012 — Singapore headquartered Otto Marine Limited has secured a ship chartering contract for a newly built 75 m Work Maintenance Vessel. The charter is for a firm 180 days,
JUNE 18, 2012 — Singapore based Penguin International Limited reports that its associated company, Pelican Offshore Malaysia Corp, has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Malaysia named Flex Fleet Sdn Bhd (“Flex
OSX Brasil S.A. (Bovespa: OSXB3) has obtained financing of $1.3 billion for its Açu Shipbuilding Unit. Subsidiary OSX Construção Naval has entered into contracts with lending agents BNDES (National Development Bank) and
15, 2012 — Fosnavag, Norway, headquartered Olympic Shipping AS has added a 115 m subsea support and construction vessel to its newbuilding program at Kleven Maritime AS. Valued at NOK 600 million
JUNE 15, 2012 — Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (NYSE: OSG) has promoted Captain George Dienis to Senior Vice President of OSG. He will now assume responsibility for technical management of OSG’s international
JUNE 15, 2012 — Norwegian shipbuilder Fjellstrand has broken into the wind farm support vessel market with an innovative trimaran SWATH design, the WindServer. Ejsberg, Denmark, based World Maritime Offshore A/S has
JUNE 14, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) has appointed Peter Diakun, vice president and chief technology officer of its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, vice president of energy programs. Mr. Diakun,
JUNE 14, 2012 — United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is calling on Hamburg headquartered classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) to stop certifying Iranian shipping vessels, specifically those of the Islamic Republic of
JUNE 14, 2012 — Carsten J. Reinhardt has been appointed a member of the corporate board of management of Voith GmbH and as President and CEO of Voith Turbo GmbH & Co.