MARCH 4, 2015—It’s been a historic 24 hours for Vigor Industrial. As we reported yesterday, the Portland, OR-headquartered shipbuilding and fabrication firm announced that it had struck a merger deal under which
DECEMBER 21, 2014—Dutch shipyard Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam, part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, was recently awarded an EPC contract by Petrojarl I LLC to upgrade the FPSO Petrojarl I for redeployment to
NOVEMBER 17, 2014 — Japan’s Hiro Naviera S.A. has taken delivery of Sunrise Hope, the world’s first chemical tanker to use a combination of duplex stainless steel and stainless clad steel in
OCTOBER 2, 2014 — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) says that, across its nine cruise lines, by the end of 2014 its multi-year Fleet Fuel Conservation Program will have
JUNE 19, 2014 — The first in a new series of tank barges for Florida Marine Transporters, Mandeville, LA, was christened this week in a ceremony at Gulf Coast Shipyard Group, Inc.’s
APRIL 4, 2014 — International Paint Ltd, Felling, U.K., has developed Intertrac. It is claimed to be the shipping industry’s first, patented applied for software system that enables shipowners and operators to
DECEMBER 16, 2013 — Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard, in Singapore, and Keppel Nantong Shipyard, in China, have secured five contracts worth about Singapore $150 million in total. Mr. Michael
JUNE 20, 2013 — The International Standards Organization is to establish an expert group to start work on a common industry standard for measurement of changes in hull and propeller performance. The
APRIL 12, 2013—Donjon Shipbuilding & Repair, Erie, PA, was recently awarded a contract by Sterling Equipment of Quincy, MA, to construct two 225 ft x 42 ft x 12 ft hopper barges,
MARCH 15, 2013 — Halliburton’s Angola-based stimulation vessel Stim Star Angola, is in the Port of Cape Town for scheduled repair work by DCD Marine. “The choice of DCD Marine as a
