Austal lays keel for third Cape class
AUGUST 15, 2013 — Austal is making rapid progress with the eight 56 m Cape Class patrol vessels that it is designing, building and supporting for the Australian Customs and Border Protection
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Chinese shipyard to build Ulstein X-Bow PSVs
AUGUST 13, 2013 — China’s Xiamen ITG Shipbuilding Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. (ITG) and Nantong Rainbow Offshore & Engineering Equipments Co., Ltd. (ROC) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement and a
Ingalls Shipbuilding launches fourth NSC
AUGUST 12, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division launched its fourth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter (NSC), Hamilton (WMSL 753), on Saturday. “Launching a ship involves quite a
Nordic Yards to build 2,500 t deckhouse for icebreaker
AUGUST 12, 2013 — Nordic Yards has been awarded the tender for the construction of a 2,500 tonne, fully fitted out, deckhouse for a Russian icebreaker. A contract for the fabrication of
IHC Merwede books €1 billion in pipelay vessel orders
AUGUST 9, 2013 — IHC Merwede’s Offshore division has been successful in securing orders worth over €1 billion for the design, engineering and construction of a total of six pipelaying vessels. The
Eastern Shipbuilding launches second Bravante PSV
AUGUST 9, 2013 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc.’s Nelson Street facility in Panama City, FL, this week launched Bravante VI, the second of five platform supply vessels being built for Brazil’s Bravante
CIT Maritime Finance in third deal with Alterna
AUGUST 8, 2013 — Back in May, Svein Engh, Managing Director and Group Head of CIT Maritime Finance said that right now is “the perfect time” to be in the maritime finance
SPP Shipbuilding adds two more for Irish owner
AUGUST 8, 2013 — Cork, Ireland, based Ardmore Shipping Corporation (NYSE: ASC) today announced that it has exercised options on two 50,300 dwt IMO 3 eco-design product tankers at SPP Shipbuilding Co.
Petters: Avondale could yet build Jones Act tankers
AUGUST 8, 2013 — The current healthy market for Jones Act tankers might, just possibly, mean that Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Avondale unit could once again operate as a builder of commercial vessels.
Chinese-built PSVs to have ABB dry type transformers
AUGUST 7, 2013 — ABB is to supply China’s Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Ltd. with 24 dry-type propulsion transformers, for installation in 12 diesel-electric powered offshore platform supply vessels. The 2,300 kVA 480-volt