Miller Boat Lines ferry completes repairs at Great Lakes Shipyard

Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio, has finished maintenance and repairs on Miller Boat Line’s ferry William Market for its U.S. Coast Guard 5-year inspection. This is the second Miller Boat Line vessel

Pride International orders ultra-deepwater drillship

Pride International, Inc. (NYSE:PDE) says it has reached agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries, Ltd. (SHI) for the construction of a fifth ultra-deepwater drillship. Like the four other ultra-deepwater drillships that Pride has

NOIA comments on new BOEMRE offshore drilling guidelines

BOEMRE the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, yesterday issued a guidance document that it said provides a “clear path forward for safe resumption of deepwater

Coast Guard names first woman to head U.S. military academy

Rear Adm. Sandra L. Stosz will be the first woman superintendent of a military service academy when classes convene at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy next summer. The commandant of the Coast

Hapag-Lloyd buys building, orders 13,000 TEU ships

Hapag-Lloyd yesterday ordered four containerships with a capacity of 13,200 TEU each from South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries. It also bought back its company headquarters in Hamburg’s Ballindamm. Besides ordering the for

Wärtsilä propulsion for research ship

Wärtsilä is to supply the propulsion equipment for the state-of-the-art research vessel. ordered from the C.N.P. Freire S.A. shipyard in Vigo, Spain, by the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The contract

STX OSV books PSV order

STX OSV Holdings Limited reports that it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of a platform supply vessel of PSV 09 design for an undisclosed international customer. The

Austal moves giant cat out of fabrication hall

Austal today moved its largest ever catamaran out of the fabrication hall at its Henderson, Western Australia, shipyard. The 113 m long vessel is being built for Denmark’s Nordic Ferry Service The

Skipperliner books ferry contract

Skipperliner, La Crosse, Wis., has reopened under new ownership and with a $1.7 million contract to provide Wisconsin’s oldest operating ferry service, the Cassville ferry service, with a new tug and barge

Russian-Finnish joint venture acquires Helsinki shipyard

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has given his blessing to a deal that sees STX Finland Oy selling its Helsinki shipyard to new joint venture it has formed with Russia’s United Shipbuilding

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