OCTOBER 18, 2013 — Chinese shipbuilding giant COSCO issued a flurry of announcements this week reporting additions to its orderbook, but also had some the not-so-great news concerning a $500 million DP3
OCTOBER 17, 2013 — Signal Ship Repair (SSR), Mobile, AL, a division of Signal International, Inc., reports that it recently redelivered the dredge Wheeler to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
OCTOBER 17, 2013 — A $2.6 million, 65 ft Incat Crowther design catamaran that will serve as a “floating class room” for the Maritime Aquarium of Norwalk, CT, (see earlier story) is
OCTOBER 17, 2013 — A new electro-assist MET turbocharger saves approximately 30% electric power consumption compared to existing auxiliary blowers, says Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Engine Co., Ltd. which unveiled
OCTOBER 17, 2013 — Hamburg, Germany, based Becker Marine Systems says that it has won orders to equip five 18,000-TEU containerships under construction for China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) with effective high
OCTOBER 17, 2013 — Two Ulstein PX 105 platform supply vessels (PSV) will be the first vessels built by Brazil’s Oceana Offshore at its new shipyard, Oceana Estaleiros, which is under construction
OCTOBER 16, 2013 — German ferry operator AG Ems has placed an order with shipbuilder Fassmer GmbH & Co. KG for what will be Germany’s first LNG-fueled ferry. Scheduled for delivery from
OCTOBER 16, 2013 — Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) has been awarded a five-year contract for a newbuild dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillship by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Construction of the newbuild drillship is expected
OCTOBER 15, 2013—The U.K.’s Osiris Hydrographic & Geophysical Projects, part of Bibby Marine Survey Services, has begun construction of a sister ship to the SWATH survey vessel Bibby Tethra. To be called
OCTOBER 15, 2015 — Rolls-Royce has won an order to provide an integrated design and equipment package for two offshore supply vessels to be built at COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd in