Month: December 2012

Wärtsilä has signed a contract for the design of a new type of diving support vessel (DSV) to be built for Subsea 7, an engineering, construction, and services contractor to the offshore…

Global shipping company, Bore, recently announced the results of its trial of Finnish marine solutions company, NAPA’s electronic ship energy efficiency management plan (SEEMP) software, ahead of the IMO’s SEEMP legislation becoming…

The Bremen based Lürssen Group is to buy the Peene shipyard in Wolgast, junior partner in the insolvent P+S Werften Group, according to insolvency administrator, Berthold Brinkmann.

Wärtsilä Ship Designs has won a contract to design six offshore oilfield ships for China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL).

German reports say an offer has been made for the insolvent German offshore wind farm components builder SIAG Nordseewerke - the former NSW Shipyard - writes Tom Todd.

UANI (United Against Nuclear Iran, a US-based organisation that seeks to prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear weapons capability) has called on Wärtsilä to end its, according to UANI, “irresponsible” business activities.

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard says it has been awarded a joint contract with OJCS Vyborg Shipyard, worth about €100 million, to build a 16MW icebreaker for the Russian Ministry of Transport.

The Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards Group has announced that it has acquired another French shipyard, the Arno Dunkerque repair yard, the only repair and conversion facility in France’s third-largest port.

UK-based Silverburn Shipping has chosen a pair of 2,200bhp Cummins QSK60-M Tier 2 high speed diesels to power a new AHTS designed for service in the Caspian Sea.

Estonian ship repair company, BLRT Grupp, has finished the repair of Russian shipping company, Sovcomflot’s (SCF) oil tanker, ‘SCF Baltica’.