DECEMBER 20, 2016 — European shipowners have adopted a position paper endorsing a number of EU actions that are expected to concretely improve polar shipping conditions. ECSA (the European Community Shipowners Association)
DECEMBER 19, 2016—Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) recently reported that its Singapore shipyard, Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine), and its U.S. shipyard, VT Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, MS, have secured
DECEMBER 17, 2016 — During his election campaign, President-elect Donald J. Trump said his vision was to “rebuild the U.S. Navy toward a goal of 350 ships, as the bipartisan National Defense
DECEMBER 16, 2016 — Autonomous unmanned swarming boats were put through their paces in a recent demonstration in the lower Chesapeake Bay-with results that the Navy says show dramatic new possibilities for
DECEMBER 16, 2016 — For cruise shipping operators, the future seems so bright that they are going to need sunglasses. In the release of its 2017 State of the Cruise Industry Outlook,
DECEMBER 15, 2016 —Wärtsilä will provide extensive technical support and advisory services for Singapore-based large cutter dredge Cassiopeia V. The five-year Technical Management Agreement includes Dynamic Maintenance Planning (DMP) and is complemented
DECEMBER 15, 2016 — We can now stop using the term “Ohio-class replacement” for the next generation of fleet fleet ballistic missile submarines (SSBN). In a ceremony yesterday at the District of
DECEMBER 14, 2016—Netherlands-based international shipping company Vroon has extended its contract for KVH’s maritime satellite communications solution, choosing the mini-VSAT Broadband network for connectivity services onboard more than 140 Vroon vessels. “In
DECEMBER 14, 2016 — Swedish ferry operator Stena Line has renewed its planned maintenance agreement with Cargotec’s MacGregor subsidiary. Stena Line has held MacGregor Onboard Care (MOC) agreements since 2008 and its
DECEMBER 14, 2016 — A new 25 m RPA-8 patrol vessel for the Port of Rotterdam under construction at Shipyard Kooiman, Zwijndrecht, Netherlands will sail in a densely populated area, with heavy