SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 — Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) is launching a new high capacity portable plasma cutter designed specifically for marine use. The new Unitor UPC1041 has been designed help shipowners and
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 — The “Big Three” counter-piracy task forces (NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield, European Union Naval Force Somalia – Operation Atalanta and Combined Task Force 151 (CTF 151) are calling upon
SEPTEMBER 2—A keel laying and dedication ceremony was recently held at Dakota Creek Industries, Anacortes, WA, for AGOR-27 and 28, the first two of a new class of advanced Oceanographic Research Vessels.
AUGUST 31, 2012 — McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) is returning to Spanish shipbuilder Metalships and Docks SAU for another high capacity reeled pipelay vessel with top-tier payload capacity. Tentatively named Lay
AUGUST 31, 2012 — South Africa’s DCD Marine was recently awarded the contract to upgrade and repair the Saipem-owned semi-submersible rig, Scarabeo 3. The project is being undertaken at the upgraded A-Berth
AUGUST 31, 2012 — The two 3,250 passenger cruise ships that Carnival’s AIDA Cruises has on order at the Nagasaki Shipyard of Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are planned to set new
AUGUST 30, 2012 — Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA (Oslo: AKPS), a leading U.S. commercial shipyard has delivered to Crowley a Veteran Class MT-46 product tanker. This is the thirteenth product tanker that
AUGUST 30, 2012 — TY Offshore says its New Orleans, Louisiana and Gulfport, Mississippi. shipyards and all employees are “doing fine” following the landfall of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Isaac. The New Orleans yard
AUGUST 30, 2012 — “I consider it a major accomplishment to be authorized by the Navy to hang a broom from the mast, a Navy tradition representing a ‘clean sweep’ of trial
AUGUST 30, 2012 — Belgian heavy lift and special transport group Sarens is to transport and install the 16 giant new lock gates being installed as part of the Panama Canal expansion
