Cruising boom ahead
AUGUST 23, 2013 — The cruise market is forecast to exhibit dynamic growth in the period up to 2025, taking annual passenger demand up from around 20.9 million passengers in 2012 to
shipbuilding
Ardmore orders four more newbuilds
AUGUST 21, 2013 — Cork, Ireland, headquartered Ardmore Shipping Corporation (NYSE:ASC) says that it has entered contracts with Fukuoka Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Japan, for the construction of four 25,000 dwt IMO 2
Wärtsilä to power gas fueled Danish ferry
AUGUST 21, 2013 — Wärtsilä is to supply the main propulsion generating sets for a double ended 100 m ferry that will be the first gas fueled ferry for a domestic route
Last Avondale-built LPD completes builder’s trials
AUGUST 20, 2013 — The amphibious transport dock Somerset (LPD 25), the ninth San Antonio-class ship built at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, returned Friday from successful builder’s sea trials
Electric Boat gets $11.99 million mod to Virginia contract
AUGUST 16, 2013 — Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded an $11,992,933 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2104) for continued procurement and manufacturing of onboard repair parts to be
NNS installs final CVN 78 aircraft elevator
AUGUST 15, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has installed the third and final aircraft elevator on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford
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
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