Navios Acquisition buys two MR2 product tankers

Angeliki Frangou, Chairman and CEO of Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA) says “we are pleased to add significant cash flow by acquiring quality vessels at a good price.” Navios Acquisition has

Aker Solutions to provide drilling package for DSME drillship newbuild

Aker Solutions has won a contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Equipment to supply a complete drilling equipment package for a new deepwater drillship. The contract is worth about NOK 540 million.

Rolls-Royce books orders for offshore industry propulsion systems

Rolls-Royce said yesterday that it had received orders worth over £100 million (about $161 million) to supply propulsion systems for offshore construction and drilling vessels. The ships will be built at shipyards

Magic pipe case Chief Engineer gets prison term

Dimitrios Grifakis, 57, of Kallithea, Greece, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis to six months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for obstructing a Coast

Kirby confirms second quarter earnings guidance

Tug and barge giant Kirby Corporation (NYSE:KEX) today confirmed and narrowed its 2011 second quarter earnings guidance to the $.72 to $.77 per share range compared with 2010 second quarter earnings of

Wärtsilä “committed and ready” to meet exhaust gas scrubber demand

Wärtsilä Corporation and Metso Corporation have signed an agreement to cooperate in developing and delivering exhaust gas scrubber systems for marine applications. Metso is to supply the scrubber units, while Wärtsilä is

Ingalls Shipbuilding awarded construction contract for DDG 113

Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HII), has been awarded a construction contract for the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer DDG 113. The award amount is considered source selection-sensitive

Copper-free antifouling receives Navy QPL approval

Interspeed(R)5640, International Paint’s, copper-free antifouling, has received U.S. Navy approval to MIL-PRF-24647 Type I Classes 1 & 2, Grades A & B, Applications 1 & 4. This approval follows many years of

OceanSaver introduces next generation BWT system

Drammen, Norway, headquartered OceanSaver says that its next generation ballast water treatment (BWT) system will reduce energy use by over 50 percent compared to its previous technology.   OceanSaver’s on-going research and development

Knud E. Hansen books Canada ferry design order

In partnership with Fleetway, Inc., Denmark’s Knud E. Hansen A/S  recently signed a contract with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada for the basic design of a series of six

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