Month: June 2011

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

ABB has expanded its marine and crane services team to help UK-based cruise ships, ferries, offshore support, semi-sub, jack-up, FPSO, specials and merchant vessels to upgrade, retrofit and replace equipment.

14th June 2011

ABB extends UK marine services team

14th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Hamworthy reports that its membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology has been selected for two new vessels to be built by Fincantieri for Princess Cruises.

14th June 2011

Membrane bioreactor for cruise newbuilds

14th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

GE Marine reports that it will provide Austal USA with two LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines to power the United States Navy’s fourth LCS-Class-Independence variant.

13th June 2011

Gas turbines ordered for fourth LCS

13th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

IHC Merwerde says that the naming and launch ceremony took place recently for the 11,650m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Breughel, which the company is building at its Krimpen aan den Ijssel shipyard…

13th June 2011

Dutch-built dredger launched

13th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Keppel FELS has been awarded a contract worth about $260 million by returning customer, Floatel International, to build a new generation accommodation semisubmersible for delivery in the first quarter of 2014.

13th June 2011

Keppel’s orderbook continues to grow

13th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group says that its Dayang Shipyard has started replacing acetylene with natural gas in cutting and fire engineering correction work.

13th June 2011

Chinese shipyard ditches acetylene for natural gas

13th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan has created a new unit to deal specifically with installations of ballast water treatment systems, as well as necessary ship modifications, in vessels already in service.

12th June 2011

Dedicated unit to retrofit BWT systems

12th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries’ ship repair and conversion order book saw eight vessel dockings between December 2010 and early March 2011.

12th June 2011

H&W kicks off 2011 with bulging order book

12th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Commenting on the shiprepair market as a whole, Joe Corvelli, CEO of Gibdock in Gibraltar, states that it has been fickle over the last year and the situation will remain the same…

11th June 2011

Fickle future for shiprepair industry says Gibdock CEO

11th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Norway’s Solstad Offshore has returned to Gibdock for the conversion and drydocking of the 84m long, 4,500dwt PSV ‘Normand Vester’.

10th June 2011

More conversion work at Gibdock

10th June 2011