Month: July 2007

A Korean investor is looking for sites in Fiji to set up a shipyard and slipways for a multi-million dollar project. At the moment Fiji has the capacity to service vessels up…

Mitsui O.S. K. Lines (MOL) has started onboard training using its newly built training vessel, the SPIRIT OF MOL. The first intake of trainees took place in Manila, one of the company?s…

The European Commission has welcomed the proposal by Poland to reduce capacity in the country?s shipyards at Szczecin and Gdynia, as a necessary step forward in the restructuring process financed by state…

Edda Accommodation, a company of the Norwegian ?stensj? Group, is currently building a highly specialized offshore support vessel which will be driven by five Voith Schneider Propellers. While this new supply vessel…

Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd (Keppel Singmarine), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has secured four contracts worth a total of $230 million to build six offshore support…

The long-awaited UK government announcement giving the go-ahead for the construction of two CVFs, the new future aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, is expected before the end of next week. Ministers…

To replace three 40 years old pilot station vessels, operating in the Deutsche Bucht, the German authorities recently ordered two new SWATH-type vessels from Abeking & Rasmussen (A&R) in Lemwerder, near Bremen.…

Simek shipyard in Norway has delivered ?Dina Supplier? to its owner Myklebusthaug Offshore AS, Fonnes, Norway. This PSV is the 100th UT 755 design to have been delivered to date.The newbuilding is…

Aveva, a leading provider of plant and marine design and engineering lifecycle solutions, has won a new contract with Korean shipbuilder SLS Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Gyeongnam. SLS Shipbuilding is one of…

The first of a series of ships ordered by Finnish chartering and operations company Meriaura Oy Ltd has been launched at Remontowa SA, in Poland.Named ?Aura?, (yard no. B 602/1), this is…