Marco Polo Indonesian unit acquires newbuild AHTS

JUNE 21, 2013 — Singapore based Marco Polo Marine Ltd says that its 49.6%-owned Indonesian subsidiary, PT Pelayaran Nasional Buana Bina Raya TBK, has acquired and taken delivery of a newly built

LNG fueled ferry now world’s fastest ship

JUNE 19, 2013 — Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania says that its hull 069 is now the world’s fastest ship as well as the world’s first high speed dual-fuel vehicle and passenger ferry.

IHI to take stake in Brazil’s EAS

JUNE 17, 2013 — Japan’s IHI Corporation is making an equity investment in Brazil’s Estaleiro Atlantico Sul S.A (EAS). IHI, together with JGC Corporation and Japan Marine United will acquire the stake

Heads roll at KHI as board torpedoes Mitsui merger

JUNE 14, 2013 — A management integration of Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co is not going to happen. And the three Kawasaki executives who were pressing for

Viking Ocean newbuilds get clean propulsion packages

JUNE 14, 2013 — The two cruise ships on order at Fincantieri for Viking Ocean Cruises are to have MAN Diesel & Turbo propulsion packages that will also feature Alfa Laval’s PureSOx

Long range cat to patrol Great Barrier Reef

JUNE 12, 2013 — Queensland, Australia, shipbuilder Marine Engineering Consultants (MEC) has started construction of a 24 m Incat Crowther designed 24 m long-range catamaran patrol vessel. The vessel will work in

Clean Marine gets EGCS order for shuttle tankers

JUNE 12, 2013 — Nils Høy-Petersen, CEO of Clean Marine AS, Oslo, Norway, says contracts from shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries to supply Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) for two new shuttle tankers

Ensco orders its eighth Samsung drillship

JUNE 10, 2013 —  Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) has ordered an additional advanced-capability DP3 ultra-deepwater drillship based on the Samsung GF12000 hull design. The vessel, ENSCO DS-10, will be the eighth Samsung

Seajacks orders world’s largest wind farm installer

JUNE 10, 2013 — Great Yarmouth, U.K., headquartered Seajacks International has entered into a contract with South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries to build what it says will be “the world’s largest

Newport News delivers final Block II Virginia class sub

JUNE 6, 2013  —  Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division delivered the submarine Minnesota (SSN 783) to the U.S. Navy today. The boat, the last of

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