NRC Canada showcases progress made on U.S. polar icebreaker tests

JULY 26, 2017 — The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is playing an important role in helping define requirements for the U.S. Coast Guard’s next polar icebreaker. Today, the NRC hosted representatives

Drewry: FSRUs currently offer better returns than LNG ships

JULY 26, 2017 — Despite falling freight rates for floating storage regasification units (FSRUs), investment returns at current asset prices and charter rates are higher compared with standard LNG vessels, according to

DDG 114 successfully completes builder’s trials

JULY 26, 2017 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division reports the successful completion of builder’s sea trials on the guided missile destroyer Ralph Johnson (DDG 114). The Arleigh Burke (DDG

First NYK Group ships with scrubbers will have Wartsila systems

JULY 26, 2017 — Two new 56,000 DWT handymax bulk carriers under construction at Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. in Japan are to be equipped with Wärtsilä exhaust gas cleaning systems. The ships

U.S.-flag lines get Transcom awards totaling $871 million

JULY 26, 2017 — U.S. Transportation Command has awarded eleven U.S.-flag shipping lines contract modifications worth a total of more than $871 million. All the awards are option year contract modifications for

Fincantieri eyes possibilities for new uses of adhesives

JULY 25, 2017 – Fincantieri has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Mapei S.p.A that, it says, will help it optimize installation times, reduce the weight of certain materials, improve acoustic insulation

BAE San Diego gets $49.8 million mod to Navy contract

JULY 25, 2017 — BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $49,817,624 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-4403) to definitize USS Comstock (LSD 45) fiscal

Skaugen: First gas shipments to small scale LNG project delayed

JULY 25, 2017 — Norway’s I.M. Skaugen SE says that transportation of first gas for a “proof of concept” Small Scale LNG project under development in Africa has been delayed. With its

OCIMF and ReCAAP step up counterpiracy cooperation

JULY 25, 2017 — In a move aimed at boosting the fight against piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia, the ReCAAP Information Sharing Center has signed an MOU with OCIMF.

VIDEO: Vroon christens first walk-to-work vessel

JULY 25, 2017 — Vroon B.V. christened its first subsea-support walk-to-work vessel in a July 20 ceremony, held at the Damen Shiprepair shipyard in Amsterdam, in which the vessel was named VOS

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