MARCH 17, 2014 — Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd reports that subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard, Keppel Singmarine, and Keppel Nantong Shipyard have secured contracts worth a total of about S$140 million. “Keppel
JANUARY 8, 2014 — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star was released by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority from search and rescue duties yesterday, following confirmation the Russian-flagged expedition ship Akademik
JANUARY 4, 2014 — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star is the latest icebreaker to get drawn into the saga that began Christmas Eve when the members of the Australasian Antarctic
JANUARY 2, 2014 — Although the 22 crew of the ice bound Russian expedition ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy remain on board, 52 scientists and passengers from the vessel are now aboard the
DECEMBER 31, 2013 — Members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014 spent their New Year’s Eve tramping down the ice (while singing Auld Lang Syne) to make a makeshift helipad. Their chartered
DECEMBER 30, 2013 — A former Soviet research ship remains stuck in ice some 1,500 miles south of Hobart, Tasmania, with 74 people aboard. The Russian-flag MV Akademik Shokalski, on charter to
DECEMBER 18, 2013 — A Finnish government owned investment company, Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, yesterday purchased a 66.4% majority stake of the shares of Aker Arctic Technology Oy (Aker Arctic) from STX
NOVEMBER 29, 2013 — Oslo’s Fram Museum today provided the backdrop for the signing of a contract that will see Fincantieri build a new icebeaking polar research ship for Norway’s Institute of
NOVEMBER 18, 2013 — Norway’s Havyard Group has agreed a contract with the Russian shipping company FEMCO covering design and construction of an 86 m Havyard 843 Ice, an icebreaking offshore vessel.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 — ABB has won an order worth around $25 million to supply its Azipod marine propulsion system and complete electric power plants for two new rescue and salvage icebreakers
