Rolls-Royce to design and equip advanced shrimp vessel
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 — A shrimp stern trawler ordered from shipbuilder Vard Group by a Canadian company is to be designed and equipped by Rolls-Royce. The contract is worth over £6 million
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Small tankers target of hijackings in Southeast Asia
AUGUST 11, 2015—With a high rate of hijackings in Southeast Asia, small tanker operators will continue to face a security threat amid a high demand for illicit oil, together and a well-established
OFAC adds Singapore shipping company to sanctions list
JULY 24, 2015 — The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued a notice updating its list of specially designated nationals (SDNs) under the North Korean economic sanctions to
MAIB: Master tried to cover up grounding
ULY 15, 2015 — The U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published a report on a November 30, 2014 incident involving the grounding of the 6,190 gt U.K. flag general cargo vessel
Army takes delivery of high speed fire boat
JULY 6, 2015 — The U.S. Army’s US Military Surface Deployment Distribution Command (SDDC) 596th Transportation Brigade has accepted delivery of a Fast Response Fire-Fighting Vessel under a contract for design and
VHF recordings leaked following cruise ship collision
JUNE 29, 2015 — Though one passenger reportedly said the experience was “like being on the Titanic,” video shows that a collision between the elderly cruise ship Celestyal Crystal and a 38,734
Cruise ship hits lock wall in Saint Lawrence
JUNE 19, 2015—Last night, a cruise ship carrying 274 people allided with the wall in the Eisenhower Lock in the Saint Lawrence Seaway in Massena, NY, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Huntington Ingalls gets $4.3 billion for CVN 79 work
JUNE 8, 2015 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) has received Navy contracts worth nearly $4.3 billion in relation to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second ship in
World Wide Supply to lay up two of its six PSVs
MAY 27, 2015 — Norway’s World Wide Supply AS is to lay up two of its fleet of six new generation platform supply vessels. All six 80.1 m, 1,500-tonne deck capacity vessels
Iranian official to neighbors: Hand over Alpine Eternity
MAY 15, 2015 — Shipowners with any kind of legal dispute with an Iranian entity would be well advised to steer clear of waters patrolled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Navy. That