Van Oord signs LOI for massive Netherlands wind farm project

An advanced wind farm construction vessel ordered at German shipbuilder J.J. Sietas has a two-year project lined up following its September 2012 delivery. The ship is on order for Rotterdam headquartered marine

Navy doesn’t buy Rand conclusions on green fuels

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has lost none of his enthusiasm for alternative fuels, despite publication of a Rand Corporation study that sees no military benefits in switching to new fuels.

MaK power for Scandlines car ferries

Two Scandlines car ferry newbuilds from P+S Werften’s Volkswerft Stralsund shipyard in Germany will each be equipped with five MaK 9 M 32 C engines with Cat Common Rail. Each M 32

Van der Velden delivers biggest Barke rudders thus far

Two flap-type rudders installed on the 30,000 cu.m trailing suction hopper dredge Congo River are the largest in-house designed BARKE rudders thus far delivered by Van der Velden Marine Systems. Built for

Deep Sea Supply moves into Malaysian offshore service market

Oslo-listed Deep Sea Supply plc is moving to get access to the growing offshore supply market in Malaysia, which is protected by strong cabotage regulations. Today it announced it has entered into

Sinopacific busy on first Chinese-designed export OSV

China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group is busy on a series of offshore vessels for delivery to Paris-headquartered Bourbon under a $1billion framework agreement signed in June, 2010. Significantly, production includes the first Chinese-designed

Offshore permitting delays threaten 125,000 Gulf jobs

The U.S.is set to pay a very stiff price for Department of the Interior efforts to enhance offshore drilling safety in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.  The resulting delays in

Eniram and ABB ink agreement on Azipod optimization

Eniram Ltd. has announced an agreement with ABB to integrate Eniram pod optimization technology into the ABB Azipod poddedpropulsion system for newbuild vessels as well as retrofit projects. The dynamic pod optimization,

Todd won’t extend search for alternate purchaser

Todd Shipyards Corporation (NYSE: TOD), which has signed a merger agreement with a subsidiary of Vigor Industrial LLC, today said it had not exercised an option to extend the “go shop” period

Plea for more naval assets to counter pirates

Four leading shipping organizations today congratulated the governments of Korea and Malaysia for recent counter piracy rescues, but called for more naval assets to be deployed against pirates. BIMCO, the International Chamber

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