SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Brazil’s shipbuilding ambitions are not confined to tankers and various vessels to support Petrobras’s offshore activity. They also extend to nuclear submarine construction. A reminder of this comes
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Wärtsilä is supply the main propulsion system for four new ocean rescue vessels being built at the CSSC Guangzhou Huang-Pu Shipbuilding Company Ltd shipyard in China for delivery
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Panama City, FL, based Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. has entered into a license agreement with Spain’s SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. to use SENER’s FORAN CAD/CAM System and
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — At 4.00 A.M. today local time, the Titan Salvage/Micoperi consortium announced that the Costa Concordia parbuckling operation had been successfully completed. The wreck of the cruise ship is
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the filing of a motion to enter a revised consent decree that requires Lake Michigan Carferry Service, Inc. (LMC) of Ludington,
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — Although the start was delayed by some two hours, the Titan Salvage/Micoperi Consortium looks to have made a good start on the effort to right the cruise ship
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — After springing a leak in its engine room, a 38-year old, mothballed platform supply vessel was within hours of sinking when it was saved by the speedy application
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — STX Finland is to shutter its Rauma Shipyard by the end of next summer. Its functions will be shifted the larger Turku Shipyard in a restructuring that will
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — The latest version of ECO-Assistant, the trim optimization tool from FutureShip, the maritime consulting arm of Germanischer Lloyd, incorporates a number of new features, including a fuel consumption
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has designated two new Marine Highways. The Occoquan, Potomac, and Anacostia Rivers make up the first, designated as the “M-495 Marine Highway Crossing.”
