mystery buyer signs contract for cable layer

Mystery buyer orders cable layer at Vard

With offshore wind farm development creating the need to lay a lot of cable, demand for cable layers can only be expected to grow. One beneficiary of this is Fincantieri’s Norwegian subsidiary

OSG president & CEO Sam Norton talks Saltchuk acquisition

All four OSG Alaska class tankers to get engine upgrades

Tampa, Fla., headquartered Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (NYSE:OSG) has signed a contract with MAN Energy Solutions SE that will see all four of the nearly 20-year old OSG Alaska class tankers get

USNS Arctic at sea

Detyens wins $8.2 million USNS Arctic contract

Detyens Shipyards Inc., Charleston, S.C., has been awarded at $8,220,997 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220524C4091) for an 82 calendar day shipyard availability for a mid-term availability of Military Sealift Command’s fleet ordnance and dry

Daniel Eling

BHGI promotes Daniel Eling to engineering manager

Bristol, R.I., headquartered Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) has promoted senior naval architect Daniel P. Eling, P.E., to engineering manager. Eling, who has been with BHGI for six years, holds a bachelor

CSOV with methanol ready engines

New Schulte CSOVs will be methanol ready

Norway’s Ulstein Verft AS has ordered two sets of three MAN 12V175D-MEV methanol ready engines for two CSOVs (commissioning service operation vessels) currently under construction for Bernhard Schulte Offshore (BS Offshore). The

methanol-fueled four stroke

Caterpillar and ORNL cooperate on methanol-fueled four-stroke R&D

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Caterpillar Inc. have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA, to investigate marine methanol-fueled four-stroke engines. While methanol

handshake seals Australian Army landing craft MOU

Austal and Birdon in MOU on Australian Army landing craft project

Two Australian shipbuilders with significant U.S. presences chose Mobile, Ala., to announce today that they are teaming up for an Australian Army landing craft project. The two companies, Austal Ships Pty Limited

COSCO signs methanol retrofit order

COSCO signs up for containership methanol retrofits

COSCO Heavy Industry Shanghai Co. Ltd. has signed a contract with MAN Energy Solutions for the methanol retrofit of four main engines from COSCO Line 13,800 TEU Camellia class and 20,000 TEU

The AIP for the 11,000 CEU PCTC was awarded at the at the China Merchants’ booth at the Marintec China event in Shanghai.

China Merchants unveils 11,000-CEU PCTC design

How big can car carriers get? As we reported Tuesday, Seaspan Corporation has just ordered six 10,800 CEU (car equivalent unit) capacity pure car truck carriers (PCTCs), with options for four more,

GAO reports on RAS acquisition

GAO denies bid protest of waterways commerce cutter award

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected a bid protest filed by Steiner Construction Company, Inc., a small business of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, against the continued performance of a contract awarded

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