Arctic AHTS to have Rolls-Royce engines and deck machinery

APRIL 8, 2014 — Rolls-Royce is to deliver deck machinery and engines for the arctic Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessel (AHTS) recently ordered from Vard by Bourbon Offshore Norway (see earlier story).

Golden Energy Offshore orders Ulstein design PSVs

APRIL 8, 2014 — Ålesund, Norway, headquartered Golden Energy Offshore has entered into a shipbuilding contract with Nantong Rainbow Offshore & Engineering Equipments Co., Ltd. (ROC) in China for the construction of

SSN 785 marks a construction milestone

APRIL 3, 2014 — The Virginia-class fast attack submarine John Warner (SSN 785) has reached the “pressure hull complete” construction milestone at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Newport News Shipbuilding, signifying that all

Rem arctic PSV is first in new Wärtsilä series

APRIL 3, 2014 — Wärtsilä says that the VS 485 design platform supply vessel ordered at Norway’s Kleven Shipyard by Rem Offshore ASA in January (see earlier story) is the  first confirmed

IHC Merwede names Bram Roelse CEO

APRIL 2, 2014 – Sliedrecht, the Netherlands, headquartered IHC Merwede has appointed Bram Roelse as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effect as of April 1, 2014. He succeeds Dirk Philips who

Aker Philly sells profit share in tanker pair to Crowley

APRIL 1, 2014 — Back in August 2012 when Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA sold two Jones Act product tankers that it had been building for its own account to Crowley Maritime’s Crowley

USCG places $497 million order for NSC 7

APRIL 1, 2014 — The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a fixed-price incentive firm target contract valued at approximately $497 million to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) for production of the seventh National

BIW gets another $24.3 million for DDG 1000 work

APRIL 1, 2014 — General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $24,374,445 modification to previously awarded fixed-price incentive contract (N00024-11-C-2306) to exercise an option for DDG 1000 class

More shipowners opt for exhaust gas scrubbers

MARCH 31, 2014 — More shipowners are deciding that exhaust gas scrubbers are the most practical way to comply with increasingly tough regulations on fuel sulfur and vessel emissions. The trend has

Vigor Portland books MSC contract

MARCH 31, 2014 — Vigor Industrial LLC, Portland, OR, is being awarded a $6,875,938 firm-fixed-price contract for a 68-calendar day mid-term shipyard availability of USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200).   Work will include

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