JANUARY 28, 2016 – The Vane Brothers Company, Baltimore, MD, has taken delivery of the Elizabeth Anne, the first in a series of eight 4,200 horsepower tugboats. All eight Elizabeth Anne Class
JANUARY 28, 2016 – Philly Shipyard, Inc. yesterday held a ceremonial keel laying for the first product tanker in a four vessel order for American Petroleum Tankers (APT), a Kinder Morgan, Inc.
JANUARY 28, 2016 — Utila Dream, a 244 passenger Incat Crowther design catamaran ferry built by Midship Marine’s Harvey, LA, shipyard is now operating in Honduras after delivery from the shipbuilder on
JANUARY 27, 2016 — Japan’s Namura Shipbuilding is to install ClassNK-NAPA GREEN software on a newbuilding, with the shipowner’s agreement. The fleet performance management and optimization system collects voyage data from the
JANUARY 27, 2016 — Fincantieri reports that it has signed a number of framework agreements with Iranian companies. It says these “preliminary understandings are prior to the accomplishment of several contracts worth
JANUARY 27, 2016 — The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has awarded licenses for liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering of ships to Pavilion Gas and a joint bid between Keppel Offshore
JANUARY 26, 2016 — Jensen Maritime, Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle, WA, based naval architecture and marine engineering company, is to provide detailed design and production engineering services for the two, 100 passenger,
JANUARY 25, 2016 — Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) reports that its Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore has delivered its first rig of the year. The unit, the Halul, a KFELS
Peng Xing was the first customer for CoCo Yachts’ Coastal Cruiser 199 design. This time round it has ordered another Coastal Cruiser 199 and one Coastal Cruiser 300, both with an option for one further vessel .
Peng Xing decided to continue with the Coastal Cruiser series is based on its experiences with a fleet of five of these ferries.
“The 27.5% lower fuel consumption, compared with their other vessels, and very low noise levels in the wheelhouse, crew
accommodations and passengers salons, in combination with good sea keeping performance, appeared to be very convincing,” says CoCo Yachts.
The Coastal Cruiser 199 will be delivered to Peng Xing Shipping Company in January 2017, with the Coastal Cruiser 300 following in April 2017. Both will be deployed to run services in the Pearl River delta between Shenzhen – Zhuhai – Hong Kong – Macau P.R. China.
| COASTAL CRUISER 199 | COASTAL CRUISER 300 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Length over all | 40.0 m | 42.3 m | |
| Beam over all | 9.3 m | 10.3 m | |
| Depth at mid ship | 3.4 m | 3.4 m | |
| Draft to baseline | 1.2 m | 1.3 m | |
| Economy passengers capacity | 159 @ 880 mm seat pitch | 232 @ 880 mm seat pitch | |
| Business passengers capacity | 30 @ 1000 mm seat pitch | 58 @ 1000 mm seat pitch | |
| VIP capacity | 10 | 10 | |
| Main engines | 2 x MTU 12V2000M7 | 22 x MTU 16V2000M72 | |
| Installed power | 2 x 1080 kW | 2x 1440 kW | |
| Waterjets | Rolls Royce S63-4 | Rolls Royce S71-4 | |
| Speed @ full load @ 95% MCR | 31.0 knots | 28.5 knots |
JANUARY 19, 2016 — Jim Long has been hired as the new Chief Executive Officer of Tampa, FL, based Hendry Marine Industries, Inc. and Gulf Marine Repair Corporation, one of the Southeast’s