Resolve refloats Puerto Rico dry dock
Resolve Marine Group, Inc. successfully refloated the Perseverance dry dock in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 27. The dry dock sank on September 29 during maintenance/refit operations. During the sinking, the
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Imtech acquires Canada’s Groupe Techsol Marine
Imtech N.V. reports that it has acquired Canada’s Groupe Techsol Marine. It says that this means that Imtech has now a high-tech marine production site available in Canada and also strengthens Imtech’s
Corvus lithium battery meets Lloyd’s Register certification
Corvus Energy, Richmond, B.C., Canada, recently announced that its 6.5 kWh lithium-polymer batteries have passed the requirements of Lloyd’s Register Type Approval certification tests. Lloyd’s Register North America, Inc., Houston, Tex., reported
Crowley takes delivery of tenth ATB in 650-series newbuild program
VT Halter Marine, Pascagoula, Miss., has delivered Vision/650-10, the last of 10 Articulated Tug Barges (ATBs) in Crowley Maritime Corporation’s 650-series newbuild program. The ATB is now ready to enter service and
Keppel Singmarine Brasil lands two contracts
Keppel Singmarine Brasil, Navgantes, Santa Catalina, Brazil, recently won two new construction contracts worth about S$140 million from Brazilian operators. Under the first contract, the new shipyard will build six 45-tonne bollard
MarAd approves loan guarantee for Brazilian PSVs
U.S. Maritime Administrator David Matsuda announced on April 22 a $241 million Title XI shipbuilding loan guarantee that will clear the way for the Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla., to build
Power barges installed in Venezuela
Waller Marine, Inc., Houston, Tex., recently announced the successful installation of two floating power generation barges into a prepared basin at Tacoa, Venezuela. The two 171 MW barges, each supporting a GE
Sinopacific busy on first Chinese-designed export OSV
China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group is busy on a series of offshore vessels for delivery to Paris-headquartered Bourbon under a $1billion framework agreement signed in June, 2010. Significantly, production includes the first Chinese-designed
Statue Cruises orders fuel cell powered hybrid ferry
Statue Cruises, a subsidiary of Hornblower Cruises & Events., has signed an agreement with Derecktor Shipyards in Bridgeport, Conn., to complete the world’s first hybrid ferry using hydrogen fuel by April 2011.
Farstad orders platform supply vessels at STX OSV
Norway’s Farstad Shipping ASA has placed an order for the first OSV to be built to a new wave piercing design by Rolls-Royce. The vessel is one of four platform supply vessels