Astilleros Gondan wins passenger boat order
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 — Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan has won an order to build a 60 passenger tourist vessel that will operate on the waters of the Azután reservoir near Toledo. With
HII appoints corporate director submarine affairs
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 — Capt. Kevin Brenton (U.S. Navy, Ret.) has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that the company as corporate director of customer affairs for submarine programs. Brenton served
Baton Rouge to get LNG fueling and liquefaction facility
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 — Tenaska NG Fuels, LLC and Waller Marine, Inc. are to develop, construct, own and operate what they say will be Louisiana’s first natural gas liquefaction and fueling facility
ClassNK releases report on MOL Comfort investigation
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 — A report on the structural safety of large containerships has now been released by the investigative panel set up by classification society ClassNK following the June 2013 casualty
Marcon brokers its 300th tug
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 — Marcon International, Inc. of Coupeville, WA, has brokered its 300th tug with the sale of the U.S. flag, twin screw tug Pacific Patriot (ex-Pacific King) from Kirby Marine
HamiltonJet units for world’s largest fast crewboat
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 — HamiltonJet, Christchurch, New Zealand, has released some further details on the H900 waterjets that propel the world’s largest FCB (Fast Crew Boat), the 70 m Muslim Magomayev now
Crowley adds heavy lift barges to Asia Pacific assets
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 — Crowley Maritime Corporation’s solutions group has received the first two of potentially four, new heavy-lift, ballastable deck barges (HDBs) for use by clients in the Asia-Pacific region. The
Candies newbuild to have Siemens diesel-electric solution
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 — A 107 m x 22 m Subsea Support & Construction Vessel (SSCV) being built by Otto Candies LLC at its Candies Shipbuilding yard in Houma, LA , is
Saab Kockums gets submarine overhaul contract
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 — Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to overhaul the submarine HMS Halland. The order covers the period 2014-2015 and is valued at
Ulstein books contract for Van Oord rock installer
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 — Ulstein has been awarded a design and equipment contract for the subsea rock installation vessel recently ordered from Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group’s Ningbo shipyard in China by Rotterdam headquartered