Month: November 2012

The Wärtsilä Corporation will be temporarily laying off 790 workers at its Delivery Centre Vaasa (DCV) in Finland.

Norwegian yard Kleven Verft has signed a contract with Rem Offshore for the building of an advanced multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel. The contract value is around 600 million NOK.

Singapore-based owner Britoil Offshore Services has ordered a design and equipment packages for two platform supply vessels to Ulstein’s PX121 design. The ships will be built at Britoil’s own yard in Batam,…

With so many mistakes made with Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) reports, international maritime services provider, Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), is giving advice to crews on how to avoid financial penalties.

UK marine equipment manufacturer, Martek Marine, has won a series of large orders for its MariNOx Evolution on-board emissions monitoring system with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Us based Chevron Shipping Company has chosen Norway’s OceanSaver’s ballast water treatment (BWT) systems for two of its Suezmax lightering tankers.

BLRT Grupp’s Turku Repair Yard has successfully repaired the 250m oil tanker, ‘Kyeema Spirit’, which was damaged during a storm when the vessel ran aground near Aegna Island, near Tallinn, Estonia.

The Keppel Verolme yard in The Netherlands has announced a contract from Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) for the drydocking survey of the deepwater construction vessel (DCV) ‘Balder’.