Vessels & Shipyards

Ulstein’s popular PX105 design received further endorsement when yard number 288, the platform supply vessel ‘Rem Hrist’, was delivered to a Norwegian offshore operator at the beginning of March 2011.

In December 2010 the J.J. Sietas Neuenfelde shipyard near Hamburg delivered the heavy lift ship ‘Svenja’ to Germany-based heavy lift company Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land (SAL), a joint venture with the Japanese K-Line…

Factory ships are not a new concept, writes Dag Pike. Probably the best known examples are the whaling factory ships of the post war days that followed the whaling fleets into the…

Last month the new ropax ferry ‘Spirit of Britain’ went into service on the P&O Ferries’ English Channel service and more than doubled the freight-carrying capacity of the vessel it replaced.

Greenwave, a UK registered charity that exists to remind the shipping industry of its environmental obligations and to find practical, meaningful and affordable ways to meet them, has been looking at the…

When Drydocks World-Dubai delivered the ‘Polarcus Asima’ to its owner Polarcus, the marine geophysical company based in Dubai, she became the company’s third and most sophisticated 3D seismic vessel to date.

Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd (PNTL), a subsidiary of International Nuclear Services (INS) in the UK, took delivery of its newest ship, the Pacific Egret.

The Norwegian shipyard of Simek A/S followed up earlier diesel electric offshore support vessels when they delivered ‘Stril Mariner’ to Simon Møkster Rederi AS in Stavanger, Norway.

The new Cunarder, ‘Queen Elizabeth’, is the third newbuilding to enter service with this Carnival Group subsidiary in the last six years and joins the transatlantic ocean liner ‘Queen Mary 2’ and…

When the Fosnavåg-based offshore fleet operator Rem Maritime ordered its first anchor handling tug supply vessel back in May 2007, the owner, Åge Remøy, took a gamble that the market would need…