Month: January 2014

UK based Mojo Maritime and Germanys Hammonia Reederei GmbH & Co are to finance and build a completely new class of offshore construction vessels set to “revolutionise” the offshore construction sector.

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard is to build a new dual-fuel icebreaker for the Finnish Transport Agency (FTA), a contract worth €123m.

IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has launched this year’s World Maritime Day theme, “IMO conventions: effective implementation”, with the hope that 2014 could see genuine progress .

Island Offshore has received the ‘MV Island Dawn’, the third platform supply vessel in a series of four Rolls-Royce UT 717 CD designs built by Vard Brevik shipyard.

Norways Marin Teknikk has chalked up more orders by entering into two new contracts to design a diving construction vessel and a well intervention vessel.

Ship design and operation software developer NAPA has announced a cooperation agreement with ABB, to provide is products as part of the ABB Vessel Information and Control (VICO) portfolio.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has announced that it has signed a contract with cruise operator Seabourn for what it describes as a new “ultra-luxury cruise ship”.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is to build five 19,000 teu containerships for China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) that, when built, are expected to be the world’s largest.

Germany’s TGE Marine is to design and supply the LNG fuel gas package for MAN Diesel and Turbo’s (MDT) conversion of what is thought will be the first Qatari Q-max carrier to…