AMO ends strike against American Steamship Company
The American Maritime Officers union strike against American Steamship Company has ended with an agreement to extend the current contract through – at a minimum – the end of the 2011 Great
Transocean orders another Bigfoot
Keppel FELS Limited has secured a repeat order worth $195 million from Transocean Offshore Deepwater Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. Following its order of two jack-up rigs from Keppel FELS
Harvey Gulf poised to order first U.S.-flag LNG-fueled OSV’s
New Orleans headquartered Harvey Gulf International Marine reports that on July 28, 2011, its Board of Directors approved the construction of the first United States flagged LNG-fueled offshore supply vessels. Harvey Gulf
Donjon Marine wins Navy contract worth a potential $251 million
Donjon Marine Co., Inc., Hillside, N.J., is being awarded a $41,000,000 ceiling priced, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract for salvage, salvage-related towing, harbor clearance, ocean engineering and point-to-point towing services to support the Director
BIW gets contract mod for second and third Zumwalt class destroyers
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $110,799,779 contract modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) for long lead time construction for DDG 1001, long lead time material
Rolls-Royce to design and equip Farstad AHTS newbuilds
Rolls-Royce has won a GBP 50 million (about US$ 82 million) contract to design and equip two anchor handling vessels for Norwegian company Farstad Shipping. The vessels have been ordered from STX
ThyssenKrupp: No German-French naval shipbuilding merger in works
Germany’s ThyssenKrupp today commented on recent press reports of a planned merger of German and French naval shipbuilding interests. The stories were based on a report in Financial Times Deutchsland on August
Tidewater reports lower first quarter earnings
Offshore service vessel giant Tidewater Inc. (NYSE:TDW) today reported first quarter net earnings for the period ended June 30, 2011, of $24.6 million, or $0.48 per share, on revenues of $254.6 million.
Keppel Shipyard secures more FPSO contracts
Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard Ltd. has secured two contracts worth a total of S$146 million to convert a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit as well as to fabricate and integrate an
Marco Polo Batam shipyard gets $3.8 million newbuilding order
Singapore’s Marco Polo Marine Ltd. (MPM) has secured a new shipbuilding contract to construct two towing tugs and two deck cargo barges for PT. Pelayaran Nasional Bina Buana Raya Indonesia for apporoximately