JUNE 1, 2017 — French President Emmanuel Macron visited the STX France shipyard in St. Nazaire yesterday as MSC Cruises took delivery of its new flagship, the 171,598 GRT, 5,714 passenger Meraviglia.
JUNE 1, 2017 — South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group, the world’s largest shipbuilding group, said today that it won orders for 62 ships worth $3.8 billion in the January-May period
MAY 31, 2017 — A wind service operation vessel (WSOV) under construction for France’s Louis Dreyfus Armateurs by Turkish shipbuilder Cemre Marin Endüstri A.Ş, will be equipped with four MAN 8L21/31 variable-speed
MAY 30, 2017 — Norwegian ferry operator Fjord 1 has signed a contract with shipbuilder Fjellstrand for design and construction of a fully electric, battery powered ferry of the ZeroCat type. The
MAY 25, 2017 — Six new military patrol boats built by Louisiana shipbuilder Metal Shark have been delivered to the Vietnam Coast Guard. The welded-aluminum Metal Shark 45-foot Defiant pilothouse patrol vessels
MAY 25, 2017 — Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan has delivered Dux, the first dual-fuel tug built in Europe, to Norway’s Østensjø Rederi A/S Designed by Robert Allan Ltd., the state of the
MAY 23, 2017 — Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group has signed a contract with shipbuilder Keppel Singmarine Pte.Ltd. for the construction of a 6,000 cu.m trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD), bringing its
MAY 23, 2017 — Naval Sea Systems Command reports that the Navy’s future USS Omaha (LCS 12) successfully conducted its acceptance trials May 12 after completing a series of graded in-port and
MAY 22, 2017 — Rolls-Royce is to supply Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania with four 20-cylinder Series 8000 MTU engines. They will power the new high-speed ROpax catamaran ferry that Incat is building for
MAY 22, 2017 — Fully remote controlled vessels could be operating in the Baltic Sea in three years, with autonomous commercial traffic following by 2025. That’s the vision of the One Sea