LNG carrier has dual fuel diesel electric propulsion

MARCH 3, 2014 — Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company, has taken delivery of its latest LNG carrier, the Velikiy Novgorod, from South Korea’s STX Offshore & Shipbuilding. It is the fifth LNG

Huntington Ingalls reports increased revenues

FEBRUARY 28, 2014 — Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reported fourth quarter 2013 revenues of $1.94 billion, up 6.3 percent from the same period last year. Fourth quarter diluted earnings per share

Title XI: More hoops to jump through?

FEBRUARY 28, 2014 — The good news about the U.S. Maritime Administration Title XI ship loan guarantee program is that it got an appropriation of $38.5 million for FY 2014 — which

MOL and NYK order LNG ships to carry Cove Point exports

FEBRUARY 28, 2014 — Shipbuilder Japan Marine United has received two orders for 165,000 cu.m LNG tankers, one for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.(MOL) and one for Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The shipowners

CSAV cops plea, will pay $8.9 million fine

FEBRUARY 28, 2014 — In the first in what could turn out to be a series of antitrust charges against shipping companies, Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores S.A. (CSAV), a Chilean corporation,

Dakota Creek launches R/V Neil Armstrong

FEBRUARY 28, 2014 — Dakota Creek Industries (DCI) launched the oceanographic research ship R/V Neil Armstrong (AGOR 27) at its Anacortes, WA, shipyard on February 22nd, 2014. Construction of the  R/V Neil

Bid protests mean suspension of OPC contract work

FEBRUARY 27, 2014 — Shipbuilders Huntington Ingalls Industries and VT Halter Marine have  both filed with the GAO protesting the Coast Guard’s February 11 award of design contracts for the Offshore Patrol

BC Ferries orders cable ferry

FEBRUARY 27, 2014 —  BC Ferries has awarded Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards of North Vancouver a $15 million contract for the construction of a new cable ferry to service its Buckley Bay –

Sure Wind takes delivery of second Damen newbuild

FEBRUARY 27, 2014 — Britain’s Sure Wind Marine Ltd. has taken delivery of its second Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier – the Sure Swift – in a little over a month

Schettino returns to Concordia “as a defendant”

FEBRUARY 27, 2014 — Though Captain Francesco Schettino did not return to Costa Concordia when ordered to by a Coast Guard official on the night the cruise ship grounded, today he was

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