Damen delivers first in new PSV series

JULY 1, 2013 — Damen Shipyards Group has delivered World Diamond, the first of six Damen PSV 3300 vessels built for Norwegian offshore support company World Wide Supply. The 3300 series vessels

Navy League honors TOTE’s Anthony Chiarello

JULY 1, 2013 — Anthony Chiarello, President and CEO of the Saltchuk group’s TOTE, Inc., has been honored by The Navy League of the United States with the Vincent T. Hirsch Maritime

ABB wins $20 million FPSO order from Cosco Nantong

JUNE 28, 2013 – ABB has won a $20 million contract to provide power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Nantong

Aft section of MOL Comfort sinks

JUNE 27, 2013 — Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. reports the aft part of the containership MOL Comfort sank in the open sea near 14’26″N 66’26″E (water depth about 4,000 m) at 16:48

Student project generates new Arctic vessel design

JUNE 26, 2013 — Five maritime engineering bachelor students at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands) finished their minor in Arctic Engineering last February. Now, in cooperation with Damen Shipyards

Wallenius Lines orders post Panamax car carrier duo

JUNE 26, 2013 — Cars may be getting smaller, but car carriers are not. Wallenius Lines and Tianjin Xingang Shipyard in China have finalized and signed a contract to build two post

Kherson Shipyard launches third ECO-S tanker

JUNE 25, 2013 — Ukraine’s Kherson Shipyard has launched SVL Unity, the third in a series of three tankers being built under a $50 million plus contract with  of SVL Companies Group

MOL and MHI start inspections of MOL Comfort sisters

JUNE 25, 2013 — In its latest update on the June 17 incident in which the five year old containership MOL Comfort broke into two sections (see earlier story) Mitsui O.S.K. Lines,

Atwood orders fourth drillship at DSME

JUNE 25, 2013 — Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (NYSE:ATW) reports that a subsidiary has entered into a turnkey construction contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. to construct a fourth ultra-deepwater

Damen delivers newbuild seismic support chasers

JUNE 24, 2013 — The delivery of the ‘Aquarius-G’ and her sister ship ‘Astra-G’ to offshore services company Rederij Groen, Scheveningen, the Netherlands has taken delivery of the Seismic Research Support Vessels

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