Op-Ed: A decade of financial restructuring in maritime

By Scott C. Clarkson, United States Bankruptcy Judge, Central District of California, Santa Ana, Calif. Over the past decade, several international shipyards, boat builders, and marine shipping companies have encountered financial difficulties

New Crystal cruise ships

Crystal orders third new cruise ship at Fincantieri

Fincantieri reports that luxury cruise brand Crystal has finalized an order for a third 690 passenger high end cruise ship, exercising an option under the two ship order it placed back in

Eureka Naval Architects

Eureka Naval Craft unveils new vessels for defense and commercial markets

Dover, Del.-based Eureka Naval Craft has officially launched its line of Surface Effect Ships (SES), a next-generation class of naval vessels. The company, which has been operating in a low-profile development phase

Capital Offshore PSV

Ten new Capital Offshore PSVs will be Kongsberg Maritime equipped

After years in which orders for new platform supply vessels (PSVs) were a rarity, Evangelos Marinakis’ Capital Offshore is changing things up, including by placing an order with China’s Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding

First LPD Flight II ship in dry dock

VIDEO: Ingalls Shipbuilding launches first LPD Flight II

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that, on Oct.5, its Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully launched the first LPD Flight II, San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship Harrisburg (LPD 30), marking one of the

StratCat35

BMT and Strategic unveil new StratCat35 CTV design

Singapore-based Strategic Marine and BMT have used this week’s WindEnergy Hamburg event to is proud to to unveil the new StratCat35 crew transfer vessel (CTV). Designed to meet a wider range of

medium gas carrier AiP award ceremony

HMD wins DNV AiP for medium gas carrier with big capacity

Classification society DNV has granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Mipo (HMD) for its design of a 60,000 cubic meter LPG/NH3/VCM medium gas carrier. The design addresses

T-AO fleet oiler

GD NASSCO awarded $6.75 billion T-AO block buy contract

NAVSEA has awarded shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO a $6.75 billion block-buy contract for the construction of up to eight additional John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oilers (T-AO 214 through 221) . The tenth

unmanned MCM USV vessel

Bollinger gets $7.6M mod to unmanned MCM vessel contract

Bollinger Shipyards Lockport LLC, Lockport, La., has been awarded a $7,677,970 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-22-C-6305) to exercise options for Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MCM USV) engineering support.

Parramatta Class ferry John Nutt

VIDEO: Second Parramatta Class ferry enters service in Sydney

The second of seven vessels in the new fleet of next-generation Parramatta Class ferries designed by Incat Crowther has arrived in Sydney, Australia, and is now in service. The vessels, which will

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