Aker orders PCTCs for bareboat charter to Autoliners
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 — Höegh Autoliners has entered into 12 year bareboat charters for two 6,500 car capacity Pure Car Truck Carriers (PCTC) to be delivered in 2014. The vessels will be
Farstad takes delivery of PSV from STX OSV Vietnam
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 — Farstad Shipping Pte. Ltd., Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA, has today taken delivery of the PSV Far Skimmer from STX OSV Vung Tau in
Scott Ward joins Jensen New Orleans office
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 — Scott Ward has joined Jensen Maritime Consultants as a naval architect in the company’s new office in the New Orleans business district reporting to Jensen General Manager Sergio
Sembcorp Marine swoops on U.K.’s SLP Engineering
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 — Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine is acquiring the entire share capital of Mulder Group’s Lowestoft, U.K. based SLP Engineering, which will be renamed Sembmarine SLP. The £2.5 million acquisition is
Austal christens second JHSV
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 — In a ceremony at its Mobile, Alabama, shipyard held September 15, Austal USA christened USNS Choctaw County (JHSV 2). USNS Choctaw County is the second of nine Joint
Electric Boat to work on fire-damaged submarine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012—General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT, was recently awarded a $94 million contract in relation to the fire restoration efforts to the damaged Los Angeles Class fast attack nuclear
Pyro-torq coating system receives ABS approval
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012—Valve and automation technology specialist, ISCOLA, Inc., recently announced that its product, Pyro-Torq, has earned ABS approval as the only coating system currently approved for fire protection of aluminum pneumatic
IMO’s Sekimizu calls for shipowner action on key issues
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 — IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu this week used a keynote address to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Conference in London to call on governments and the shipping industry
Double christening for Evergreen Line at Samsung
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012—Ever Laden, the second L-type containership of Evergreen Line, was recently christened by S.S. Lin, the Evergreen Group’s First Vice Group Chairman, at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Korea.
$16 billion investment gap threatens ports, waterways
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 — Aging infrastructure for marine ports, inland waterways, and airports threatens more than one million U.S. jobs according to a new Failure to Act report from the American Society