Month: September 2006

?HMS Clyde?, the first ship to be built in Portsmouth Naval Base for nearly 40 years, will be named at VT Shipbuilding?s facilities on Thursday, 7 September. The Royal Navy?s new 80…

The Polish government has now provided the EU with details of government subsidies for shipyards after a warning that failure to do so could force the EU to demand the yards repay…

Trico Marine Services, Inc. has signed an agreement to build two GPA 640, 64.6 metre offshore supply vessels (OSV) for a total cost of approximately $35 million. The vessels will have diesel…

A French naval shipyard wants to sell the Canadian navy (RCN) a maintenance formula designed to ensure its troubled submarine fleet spends more time at sea. Direction des Constructions Navales, known as…

Plans by the Norwegian group Umoe Industri to merge its lifeboat and davit subsidiary Umoe Schat-Harding with Bergen-based equipment manufacturer TTS Marine ASA have been cancelled. Umoe has called off the proposed…

New vessel construction will return to the Portland Shipyard in the USA for the first time in years under a contract announced Tuesday. New venture U.S. Barge expects to deliver its first…

Exmar, the Belgian gas tanker operator with a diversified fleet of 50 ships, has successfully carried out the first commercial ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of LNG. A total of 20,650m³ of LNG was…

The Polish government said it will revise plans for restructuring its shipyards, seeking to save 16,000 jobs. Under pressure from the European Commission, Poland said it will come up with a new…

Korean shipbuilders' earnings are forecast to improve through 2008 and beyond as the tight supply and demand balance allows them to pass on rising costs, said US-based investment bank Lehman Brothers in…

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $95.8 million contract for the detail design of the US Navy's 21st century DDG 1000, formerly called the DD(X), destroyer. The contract, to be performed…