Hyundai Heavy wins $1.4 billion containership order

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, today announced that it has won a $1.4 billion order to build five 18,000 TEU class and five 14,000 TEU

CVN 71 completes four-year RCOH at Newport News

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII), redelivered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) to the U.S. Navy today. The redelivery

Leadership changes at Bollinger Shipyards

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Bollinger Shipyards’ Chairman and CEO Donald “Boysie” Bollinger has announced the appointments of Chris Bollinger as President and Ben Bordelon as Chief Operating Officer of Bollinger Shipyards, effective August

Horizon delivers newbuild to Corps of Engineers

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., Bayou La Batre, AL has delivered the Motor Vessel George C. Grugett to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Memphis, TN. This is

Wärtsilä makes Senior VP appointment

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Wärtsilä Corporation has appointed Roger Holm (41) Senior Vice President, four-stroke, and member of the Ship Power management team as of September 1, 2013. In this position, he

Island Offshore wins North Sea LWI contract

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Island Offshore, a leading Light Well Intervention (LWI) specialist in which the Chouest and Ulstein family are partners, has been selected by Premier Oil UK Limited to undertake

Hornbeck completes sale of tugs and barges

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) reports that it has closed the previously announced sale of substantially all of the assets and business of its Downstream segment’s tug

Wilbur Ross in dry bulk venture

AUGUST 29, 2013 — Wilbur Ross’s WL Ross & Co. and other private equity investors have provided more than $100 million in capital to launch a Bermuda-based dry bulk shipping company, Nautical

Damen Galati delivers second PSV 3300

AUGUST 28, 2013 — Damen Shipyards Group reports that its Galati, Romania, shipyard has handed over World Peridot, the second platform supply vessel in a series of six on order for Norwegian

Ingram Barge makes Senior VP appointment

AUGUST 28, 2013 —  Craig E. Philip, Chief Executive Officer, Ingram Barge Company today announced the addition of Kim W. Nowell as Senior Vice President, Human Resources. Kim W. Nowell “Kim brings

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