AUGUST 15, 2012 — Damen Shipyards reports that recent contracts awarded its Scheldepoort Repair & Conversion Yard include its second for conversion of a jack-up rig into offshore hotel accommodation and a
AUGUST 15, 2012 — Austal USA has honored 15 graduates of its four-year apprenticeship program at a ceremony in which they received their certificates of completion and designation as Department of Labor
AUGUST 15, 2012 — Hempel is launching high-solids versions of its Globic, Oceanic and Olympic antifoulings. The new versions — Globic 9000, Globic 6000, Oceanic+ and Olympic+ — have been optimized to
AUGUST 15, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $20,000,000 modification for planned supplemental work to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2107) for the refueling complex overhaul of USS
AUGUST 15, 2012 — Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE:DO) has entered into a contract with Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard in Singapore to build a moored semisubmersible rig, to be named the Ocean
AUGUST 15, 2012 — Busy times at New Orleans headquartered Harvey Gulf International Marine. The company reports that it has signed long term charters for three of the four LNG fueled Offshore
AUGUST 14, 2012 — Germany’s Nordic Yards has signed a contract for the construction of a Wind Turbine Service Jack Up Vessel (WTSJUV) for DBB Jack-Up Services A/S of Aarhus, Denmark. The
AUGUST 14, 2012 — Officials have pushed back the timetable for the removal of the cruise ship Costa Concordia from its position off the island of Giglio on Italy’s Tuscan coast. At
AUGUST 14, 2012 — Maersk Group turned in what CEO Nils S. Andersen called “a fairly satisfactory” second quarter result that saw the Group deliver a profit of $1 billion. “We are
AUGUST 14, 2012 — NATO reports that early yesterday morning a boarding team from HNLMS Rotterdam disrupted a suspected pirate group before it could launch an attack on a merchant ship. The