Hapag-Lloyd yesterday ordered four containerships with a capacity of 13,200 TEU each from South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries. It also bought back its company headquarters in Hamburg’s Ballindamm. Besides ordering the for
Wärtsilä is to supply the propulsion equipment for the state-of-the-art research vessel. ordered from the C.N.P. Freire S.A. shipyard in Vigo, Spain, by the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The contract
STX OSV Holdings Limited reports that it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of a platform supply vessel of PSV 09 design for an undisclosed international customer. The
Austal today moved its largest ever catamaran out of the fabrication hall at its Henderson, Western Australia, shipyard. The 113 m long vessel is being built for Denmark’s Nordic Ferry Service The
Skipperliner, La Crosse, Wis., has reopened under new ownership and with a $1.7 million contract to provide Wisconsin’s oldest operating ferry service, the Cassville ferry service, with a new tug and barge
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has given his blessing to a deal that sees STX Finland Oy selling its Helsinki shipyard to new joint venture it has formed with Russia’s United Shipbuilding
While most of the headlines about offshore renewable energy focus on offshore wind, there are other things out there, too. A reminder of this comes with the release by Ocean Power Technologies,
The Navy is on track to get approval of its plan to order 10 LCS’s apiece from each of the competing teams. A massive, catch-all year end spending bill passed by the
Danish-born Inger Klein Olsen made history December 1 when she assumed command of Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria, becoming Cunard’s first woman Captain. Captain Olsen’s first task in her new role was to
Hamburg’s J.J.Sietas is the first German shipbuilder to win an order to develop and build a jack-up vessel for offshore wind farm installation. The order is from Netherlands marine contractor Van Oord
