Month: January 2013

Global power and automation technology group, ABB, has won a long term service contract from Hong Kong based cruise company, Star Cruises, to supply preventive maintenance of all ABB equipment onboard the…

Global power solutions company, Wärtsilä, has reported a stable end to 2012 in its recently published ‘financial statements bulletin for December 2012’.

Mercator Media’s venue for the fourth Gas Fuelled Ships Conference (11 to 12 September 2013) is a fitting one – the world’s largest passenger cruise vessel fuelled by LNG, the ‘Viking Grace’.

German repair yard Bremerhavener Dockbetrieb (BREDO) has bagged routine repair and overhaul contracts on a trio of Norwegian ferries to prepare them for the coming season, Tom Todd reports.

Donald Govan, owner of US based line and net cutter manufacturer, Spurs Marine Manufacturing Inc, announced he has sold the company to two of its key managers.

Italian shipbuilder, Fincantieri, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fincantieri Oil & Gas, reports that it has completed its acquisition of a 50.75% stake in offshore support vessel specialist STX OSV.

Almost 11 weeks after production stopped, shipbuilding has begun again at the now insolvent Volkswerft facility of Germany’s P&S Werften, reports Tom Todd.

Norways Ulstein Verft, ship design and build specialists, has delivered a state of the art Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) vessel of SX148 design to Norways Eidesvik Offshore this week.