APRIL 18, 2018 — Khazakstan’s Kazmortransflot National Maritime Shipping Company has taken delivery of its third in a series of three Damen Shoalbusters. The vessels are ideal for operations in the shallow
APRIL 17, 2018 — Eleven 23,000 TEU containerships ordered by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) at two South Korean shipyards will each be equipped with a MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9.5 main engines. MAN Diesel
APRIL 10, 2018 — South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) says that, following announcement of the Korean government’s Five Year Plan for Rebuilding Korean Shipping, it is to order a series of
MARCH 17, 2018 — It was a Happy St. Patrick’s Day for Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, OR, and Detyens Shipyards, Inc., North Charleston, SC, who in separate awards won contracts for repair
MARCH 15, 2018 — A new report from the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the costs of achieving a 355 ship Navy under two different approaches would average over $100 billion annually
FEBRUARY 26, 2018 — John Fredriksen controlled offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Limited reports that it has succeeded in reaching a global settlement with an ad hoc group of bondholders, the official committee
FEBRUARY 21, 2018 — As global water temperatures increase, global “biofouling hotspots” in subtropical/tropical areas are intensifying, exposing newbuildings at some of the world’s major shipyards to greater risk of hard fouling
FEBRUARY 8, 2018 — Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC Richard Snyder, the 27th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard took delivery today in Key West,
DECEMBER 19, 2017 — U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., were last week joined by 15 Senators in sending a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis expressing their
DECEMBER 14, 2017 — When Federal Maritime Commissioner William P. Doyle of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission announced that he would be leaving his post effective January 3, 2018, he concluded by