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
OCTOBER 14, 2013 — Cargotec reports that its MacGregor subsidiary has received an order for two MacGregor active heave-compensated (AHC) offshore cranes from a Turkish shipbuilder. A 400-tonne MacGregor subsea crane on
OCTOBER 11, 2013 — Babcock Canada Inc., part of Babcock International Group, has signed a five-year teaming agreement with Chantier Davie Canada Inc. (Davie). Davie CEO Alan Bowen says “we have spent
OCTOBER 11, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that the amphibious transport dock Somerset (LPD 25) returned from successful U.S. Navy acceptance sea trials on Sept. 20. The company’s ninth ship
OCTOBER 11, 2013 — The U.S. Brig Niagara, Pennsylvania’s flagship, has arrived at Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, OH, for routine drydocking and repairs. The vessel was hauled out using the yard’s Marine
OCTOBER 10, 2013 — Bureau Veritas is to class three Ultra-Large Containerships (ULCSs) to be built for China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and chartered to French operator CMA CGM. The ships are
OCTOBER 10, 2013 — Keppel AmFELS LLC, Brownsville, TX, has won a contract from Central Panuco S.A. De C.V., a subsidiary of Mexico’s Perforadora Central S.V. De C.V. (Perforadora Central) to build
OCTOBER 9, 2013 — Vigor Industrial has renamed two of its subsidiaries. US Fab, Vigor’s fabrication and shipbuilding subsidiary, is now Vigor Fab. Alaska Ship and Drydock, which operates the Ketchikan shipyard
