JULY 17, 2012 — The Pashaliman Shipyard, Vlorë, Albania, has delivered the Oriku, the second of four Damen Stan Patrol (SPa) 4207 vessels that it is building for the Albanian Coast Guard.
JUNE 17, 2012 — Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has released preliminary plans and drawings for the Titanic II project devised by international ship design and engineering company, Finnish-based Deltamarin. (See earlier story)
JULY 17, 2012 — Rolls-Royce has signed a £10 million design and equipment contract with Simon Møkster Shipping for an advanced platform supply vessel of UT776 WP design to be built at
JULY 17, 2012 — The U.S. Coast Guard has selected SAFE Boats International LLC of Port Orchard, Wash., to provide future Over-The-Horizon IV (OTH-IV) cutter boats. The selection was made after conducting
JULY 16, 2012 — An embarked security team aboard a Military Sealift Command fleet oiler fired on a small motor vessel after it disregarded warnings and rapidly approached the U.S. ship near
JULY 16, 2012 — The Coast Guard is continuing to investigate an incident in which a drillship on charter to Shell for Alaska drilling operations apparently dragged anchor Saturday, July 14, and
JULY 16, 2012 — Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with Remøy Shipping for the construction of an LNG-fueled platform supply vessel. The contract has a value of about NOK 400 million
JULY 16, 2012 — The number of pirate attacks worldwide fell sharply in the first half of 2012 says the latest global piracy report from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). The decline
JULY 15, 2012 — Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., is being awarded an $8,000,701 firm-fixed-price contract for a 55-calendar day regular overhaul and drydocking of Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler
JULY 13, 2012—Atlantic Towing, Limited (ATL), St. John’s, New Brunswick, recently purchased a new 16,300 bhp Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel from Singapore’s Jaya Holdings Limited. The as-yet-to-be-named vessel is a
