Vessels & Shipyards

Following the Naming Ceremony for Edda Breeze earlier this month, Edda Wind has now launched the commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) C490 at Astilleros Gondan Shipyard in Spain.

A Turkish shipyard is set to land a £105m (US$138m) order from a Scottish Government-owned company for two 95m ro-pax ferries to serve Islay in the southern Hebrides. 

Strategic Marine has delivered two crew transfer vessels (CTVs) from its new shipyard on Benoi Road in Singapore.

In a first for Asia, Vard has delivered a Taiwan-flagged service operation vessel (SOV) from its Vard Vung Tau shipyard.

U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation has christened its new 99,990dwt Post Panamax Bulk Carrier Cemtex Excellence.

Commissioned into the buoyant handysize bulker market, the 40,054dwt provides the first example of a new design series developed by Japan’s Hakodate Dock Co jointly with parent Namura Shipbuilding.

RWE, in partnership with Commercial Rib Charters (CRC), has designed a world-first amphibious crew transfer vessel for offshore wind farms in shallow waters. 

The first of two new generation cruise ships that will start the ‘Allura’ class for Oceania Cruises, a brand of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, has been launched at Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente shipyard…

Stena RoRo has been the project manager for the construction of the world’s largest hospital ship, Global Mercy, which is currently in Rotterdam being outfitted for a mission in West Africa.