JUNE 24, 2014 — The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has taken delivery of the 40 m Ashmore Reef On-Station Vessel Thaiyak. Built at Strategic Marine’s multi-purpose shipyard in Vung Tau,
JUNE 23, 2014 — Built at the Senesco Marine shipyard, North Kingstown, R.I., the recently commissioned tractor tug Buckley McAllister is the latest addition to the fleet of McAllister Towing & Transportation,
JUNE 23, 2014 — Malaysia’s largest offshore support vessel builder, Nam Cheong Limited, has won an order worth around $84 million to build two Accommodation Work Barges, with the option to purchase
JUNE 23, 2014 — Nordic American Offshore Ltd. (NYSE:NAO) has firmed up a letter of intent announced earlier this month and entered into agreements to purchase two newbuilding Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs).
JUNE 23, 2014 — The ME-GI engine for the first of TOTE’s two LNG fueled 3,100 TEU containerships has been delivered to NASSCO’s San Diego shipyard by Korea’s Doosan Engine. The MAN
JUNE 20, 2014 — J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation reportedly faces a foreclosure auction of its Tacoma, WA, shipyard July 18. The Tacoma News Tribune says that the shipyard needs to find new
JUNE 20, 2014 — Skagen, Denmark, headquartered Terntank Rederi A/S has exercised its options to add two new LNG-fueled 15,000 dwt tankers to the two it ordered at China’s AVIC Dingheng Shipbuilding
JUNE 20, 2014 — Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV) in the Netherlands has been chosen to upgrade the Rowan Companies jack-up Rowan Viking for a new contract with Lundin Petroleum in the Norwegian
JUNE 18, 2014 — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Acting Maritime Administrator Paul “Chip” Jaenichen visited the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY, Monday, to celebrate the rechristening of the
JUNE 18, 2014 — Mystery solved. The “undisclosed” Chinese shipyard that will build the four 260,000 dwt very large ore carriers just ordered by Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (see earlier story)