NSPS: Ottawa brings in a bean counter

JULY 11, 2013 — There’s been growing public skepticism about the cost effectiveness of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy(NSPS) ever since a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) report in February indicated that the

IHC Merwede bags FPSO unloading system contracts

JULY 10, 2013 — IHC Merwede has signed two new contracts for the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) delivery of offloading system packages for five FPSO vessels (floating production storage and offloading).

Chouest rolls out major expansion plans

JULY 9, 2013 —The Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) family of companies plans to enlarge its sizeable fleet and expand its terminal facilities. Chouest PSV at work in the Gulf of Mexico “Reacting

Navy moves ahead on TAO-(X)

JULY 8, 2013 — The U.S.Navy is moving ahead with its plans for a new generation of fleet oilers. NAVSEA’s PEO Ships has awarded shipbuilders NASSCO, Ingalls and VT Halter Marine firm-fixed

MOL to carry out onboard test of SCR system

JULY 8, 2013 — Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) is to install a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) system that it has jointly developed with Yanmar and Namura Shipbuilding on all three power

Rongsheng denies media stories

JULY 5, 2013 —Trading in the shares of China Rongsheng Heavy Industries ((HKG 1101) on the Hong Kong Exchange resumed this morning after the shipbuilder said that major shareholder Mr. Zhang Zhi

IHC’s Govert Hamers to take SEA Europe chairmanship

JULY 5, 2013 —The European Ships and Maritime Equipment Association (SEA Europe) says that IHC Merwede’s President, Govert Hamers, will succeed Lars Gørvell-Dahll as Chairman in October 2013. Mr. Gørvell-Dahll will step

Scorpio Tankers gets into LPG sector

JULY 3, 2012 — “We are excited about our entry into LPG which we have long considered an extension of the product market,” said Scorpio Tankers Inc. (NYSE: STNG) CEO and chairman

Bergen to sell a chunk of its shipbuilding business

JULY 2, 2013 — Norway’s Bergen Group looks to be set to sell off a chunk of its shipyard business. It says it “is now in the final phase of clarifying a

Austal lays keel for LCS 8

JUNE 26, 2013 — Austal yesterday held a keel-laying ceremony for the fourth Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), Montgomery (LCS 8), at its Mobile, Alabama, shipyard. The ship is the second LCS

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