MARCH 13, 2017 — Island Venture, the largest Offshore Construction Vessel (OCV) yet delivered by Norway’s Ulstein Verft shipyard (see earlier story), sets new standards in multifunctionality. The 160 m by 30
MARCH 13, 2017 — Wärtsilä is using this week’s Seatrade Cruise Global exhibition in Fort Lauderdale to introduce a system designed to provide safer and more efficient vessel operations by reducing the
MARCH 13, 2017 — Mexico isn’t going to pay for that wall and neither will the Coast Guard, if a bipartisan group of U.S. senators have their way. According to reports, the
MARCH 12, 2017 — Triyards Holdings reports that its Strategic Marine subsidiary has booked contracts worth a total US$20.64 million for two passenger ferries. One is an 85 m steel-hulled catamaran RoPax
MARCH 12, 2017 — Classification society ABS has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) for the Seatransporter-DF, a dual-fuel bulk carrier design concept developed by Algoship Designers Ltd. of Nassau, Bahamas. Algoship worked
MARCH 12, 2017 — Peruvian shipbuilder Servicios Industriales de la Marina S.A. (SIMA) recently delivered the BAP Morales to the Peruvian Navy. Features include a four point anchoring system and a launch
MARCH 11, 2017 — Vallejo, CA, based Moose Boats has been awarded a contract for the construction of a series of 75-foot semi-displacement USCG Subchapter-T passenger aluminum catamaran crewboats for Westar Marine
MARCH 10, 2017 — The 3,171 dwt Netherlands-flagged general cargo ship Skagern has run aground in the Gota River southwest of the locks in Trollhättan, Sweden. The Swedish Maritime Administration reports that
MARCH 10, 2017 — The U.K.’s Energy Technologies Institute is launching a £3.6 million (about $4.4 million) waste heat recovery project aimed at cutting emissions and fuel consumption in shipping The project
MARCH 10, 2017 — Tanker operator Stena Bulk has agreed to purchase the 50% of the shares in Stena Weco held by its partner, Denmark’s WECO Shipping, part of the privately owned