The U.S. Coast Guard awarded a delivery order valued at approximately $24 million on September 20 to Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis., for the production of 11 additional Response Boats-Medium (RB-M). With
French-flag boutique cruise line Compagnie du Ponant has ordered another “latest generation” mega-yacht size cruise ship with 132 staterooms and suites from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri. The yet-to-be-named new ship will be joining
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) reports that it has entered an agreement to acquire MetroMachine Corp., a leading East Coast surface-ship repair company that supports the U.S. Navy fleet in Norfolk, Va. The
Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio, has booked contracts worth $23 million to build two new 50-ton bollard pull ASD tugboats for Seacor Holdings affiliate Caribbean Tugz, LLC. To be built simultaneously, they
The Italian Navy reports that this morning the destroyer Andrea Doria, deployed in the Indian Ocean as part of NATO’s operation Ocean Shield, came to the aid of the Cyprus-flagged general cargo
Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) has announced the delivery of an integral component to its expanded containment system, a new Aframax tanker. Named Eagle Texas in a recent ceremony in Takamatsu, Japan,
MOL LNG Transport Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, is adding the TracPhone(R) V7 satellite communications system from KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq:KVHI) to three of its LNG tankers. The systems
Aberdeen, Scotland, based international diving equipment technology company Divex is receiving Carbon Trust support for its Launch and Recovery System (LARS) through the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) program. OWA is a project
Rosneft Marine UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Russian state-owned oil company OJSCRosneft, has introduced a new bunker delivery tanker to service the Port of Murmansk in Russia. The Russian-flagged RN Magellan is
This weeks launch of the 130,000 gt Carnival Breeze at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone, Italy, shipyard featured a traditional coin placing ceremony. But lately Carnival Corporation has been sending less coin the way of
