Branson rebrands cruise venture as Virgin Voyages
OCTOBER 18, 2016 — At an event in Miami today, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Cruises announced that it will be rebranded as Virgin Voyages. A letter of intent signed last year with
OCTOBER 18, 2016 — At an event in Miami today, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Cruises announced that it will be rebranded as Virgin Voyages. A letter of intent signed last year with
OCTOBER 18, 2016—This past September, the Houma, LA, shipyard of Gulf Island Shipyards, a division of Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc., delivered the 10,000 hp M/V Chad Pregracke, the last of a series
OCTOBER 17, 2016 — Norway’s Havila Shipping ASA has agreed to sell the 73.4 m VS 470 MK-II design PSV Havila Princess to P/F Bakkafrost, Faroe Islands. Havila Princess, delivered from Kleven
OCTOBER 17, 2016 — U.S. Navy lieutenant commander Gentry Debord, 41, has become the latest Navy officer to enter a guilty plea in the so-called “Fat Leonard” affair. Debord, who is based
OCTOBER 16, 2016 — Dutch shipbuilder Scheepswerf Ferus Smit B.V. reports that it is to build four LNG-fueled coastal oil/chemical tankers for Sweden’s Erik Thun A.B.’s Thun Tankers. The shipyard has built
OCTOBER 15, 2016 — The U.S. Navy’s newest and most technologically advanced warship, USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000,) was commissioned into active service today, at North Locust Point in Baltimore. Zumwalt, the lead
OCTOBER 15, 2016 — John Bertrand Beliveau II, 47, a former Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) supervisory special agent, was sentencedto 144 months in prison, Friday, for his role in the corruption
OCTOBER 14, 2016 — The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) has taken another step in its efforts to come to grips with problems that led to the suspension earlier this year of the
OCTOBER 14, 2016 — Four LNG fueled cruise ships on order for Carnival Corporation at Meyer Werft’s Papenburg, Germany, and Turku, Finland, shipyards will be powered by Caterpillar Marine MaK 16 M
OCTOBER 14, 2016 — Euronav NV (NYSE: EURN & Euronext: EURN) reports that it reached an agreement with shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries South Korea to defer the delivery of two VLCC ex-yard