UN envoy seeks action against pirate ring leaders
With 90 percent of pirates captured by navies being released because nobody will put them on trial, Jack Lang, the United Nations special envoy on maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia
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Austal launches its largest vessel yet
Austal’s largest vessel yet – the 112.6 m catamaran ferry Leonora Christina – is on track for sea trials in March and delivery to Denmark’s Bornholmer Færgen in May. The vessel was
PaxOcean to build UT 755 CD platform supply vessels
Rolls-Royce has won an order from Singapore-based PaxOcean, to provide the ship design, propulsion systems and deck machinery for two UT 755 CD platform supply vessels. The PSV’s will be built at
Kvichak sea trials foil-assisted catamaran
Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc., Seattle, has completed sea trials for M/V Defender V, a new design all-aluminum foil assisted catamaran of the shpbuilder’s own design that it recently launched. The vessel can
MAN PrimeServ gets 10 year EMC contract for Nakilat LNG fleet
Shell Trading and Shipping Company (STASCO) has signed an EMC (engine management concept) contract with MAN PrimeServ covering Nakilat’s wholly-owned fleet of LNG ships. STASCO manages the ships for Qatari-owned Nakilat, which
Hercules Offshore to operate Discovery newbuild jack-ups
Hercules Offshore, Inc. (Nasdaq: HERO) has invested $10 million in Discovery Offshore S.A., a newly formed Luxembourg-based company, focused on ownership of ultra high-specification jack-up offshore rigs. Singapore’s Keppel FELS Limited today
Van Oord signs LOI for massive Netherlands wind farm project
An advanced wind farm construction vessel ordered at German shipbuilder J.J. Sietas has a two-year project lined up following its September 2012 delivery. The ship is on order for Rotterdam headquartered marine
MaK power for Scandlines car ferries
Two Scandlines car ferry newbuilds from P+S Werften’s Volkswerft Stralsund shipyard in Germany will each be equipped with five MaK 9 M 32 C engines with Cat Common Rail. Each M 32
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
Carnival Splendour goes to San Francisco for repairs
The Carnival Splendour, which was damaged during an engine room fire on Nov. 8, has been towed from San Diego to the Port of San Francisco for repairs. The engine room fire