Month: August 2011

The conversion of one unusual specialist ship into another is now underway at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany, as planned, but completion has been delayed by a fortnight, according to the yard.

Austal of Western Australia has been awarded a contract for the design, construction and through-life support of eight new patrol boats for the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.

Mitsui OSK Lines and MOL Techno-Trade say that the propeller boss cap fins (PBCF), developed by MOL, West Japan Fluid Engineering Laboratory and Mikado Japan, and sold by MOL Tech, has received…

Van Oord, the Dutch dredging, marine and offshore contractor, has engaged the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg for the final fitting-out and commissioning of its new flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes.

A new offshore construction vessel, Island Intervention, to the Ulstein SX121 design, has now been named. Owner Island Offshore says she will carry out advanced operations in the Norwegian Sea this autumn.

Universal Shipbuilding Corporation of Japan has launched a design for its next-generation large bulk carrier vessels, the ‘G-series’, and for which a 25% reduction of GHG is claimed, against its previous ships.

Canadian company ShipConstructor Software has released a new version of its AutoCAD based CAD/CAM program.