MOL holds naming ceremony for VLOC
FEBRUARY 28, 2013 — Vale International SA Director, Shipping & Distribution, Gurinder Singh (left in picture) has performed the naming ceremony for the latest addition to the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL)
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Stevens Towing elects new president
FEBRUARY 27, 2013 — The Board of Directors of Yonges Island, SC, headquartered Stevens Towing Co., Inc., has elected W. Johnson Stevens, III, to serve as the new president of the company,
Meyer Werft floats out Norwegian Breakaway
FEBRUARY 27, 2013 — Meyer Werft yesterday floated the Norwegian Breakaway, the largest ship ever constructed in Germany, out of its covered building dock II in Papenburg, Germany where the 146,600-ton ship
Fiskerstrand to build two LNG-fueled fish feed vessels
FEBRUARY 27, 2013 — Two Norwegian fish feed transporters are to be LNG-fueled. Ordered by shipowner Egil Ulvan Rederi AS from shipbuilder Fiskerstrand BLRT AS in Ålesund, the vessels are being built
Obama visits NNS to warn of sequester dangers
FEBRUARY 27, 2013 — With shipyards and shipyard workers likely to take some heavy hits as a result of looming sequestration cuts to defense spending, President Barack Obama yesterday used Huntington Ingalls
Bourbon takes delivery of third large IMR vessel
FEBRUARY 26, 2013 — Paris headquartered Bourbon has taken delivery of the Bourbon Evolution 803, the third vessel in what Bourbon says is the first large IMR (Inspection, Maintenance, Repair) series for
STX OSV set for recovery in demand in large AHTS market
FEBRUARY 26, 2013 — Roy Reite, CEO and Executive Director of STX OSV, says the group is “well-suited to serve the thriving subsea construction vessel market, for which we are still seeing
GPA releases more details of Jackson Offshore PSVs
FEBRUARY 25, 2013 — Naval architecture and marine engineering firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA) has released some more details of the two platform supply vessels that BAE Systems is building
G.C. Rieber firms up newbuild contract at Kleven
FEBRUARY 25, 2013 — Norway’s G.C. Rieber Shipping reports today that agreements with Kleven Verft to build a new seismic vessel and charter agreements with Dolphin Geophysical have received board approval and
Norwegian Breakaway is set for float out
FEBRUARY 25, 2013 — Norwegian Cruise Line’s 145,000 gt cruise ship Norwegian Breakaway is set to be floated out tomorrow from shipbuilder Meyer Werft’s covered building dock II. Construction of the 324