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Classification society Bureau Veritas has cut the reporting time for a Condition Assessment Program (CAP) report from three months to one month and has also improved the accessibility and usability of the report. Shortening the time reduces costs for shipowners and makes the  CAP a useful tool for risk assessment of vessels and offshore units for life extension or conver ...

VT Halter Marine, Inc. has delivered the final articulated tug barge (ATB) unit in a series of ten built for Crowley Maritime Corporation's subsidiary, Vessel Management Services, Inc. Since construction of the first unit in 2005, all ten 185,000-barrel barges have been built at VT Halter Marine's Pascagoula Operations while the 9,700-hp tugs were built at its Moss Point Marine ...

IJmuiden, Netherlands, headquartered Offshore Ship Designers has been chosen to design a series of six new fuel-efficient seismic support/chase vessels ordered by  offshore major Bourbon to be built at Dubai’s Grandweld Shipyards. The 53 m vessels will have a fuel efficient hybrid propulsion system delivering a flexible economic solution for the varied condition ...

Seattle based naval architectural and engineering consultancy Glosten Associates, Inc. has announced plans to commercialize its PelaStar floating wind turbine platform, and make the technology available to the offshore wind energy industry within the year. Glosten says the PelaStar platform provides a scalable, integrated blade tip–to–seabed solution that minimizes t ...

Donjon Marine, Co., Inc. reports that Paul Deterding has been named General Manager of Donjon Shipbuilding and Repair, LLC, located in Erie, Pa.  Mr. Deterding will oversee the daily operations of the facility, including production, engineering, plant maintenance and administrative duties.Mr. Deterding has more than 25 years of experience in the marine, electrical ...

American Cruise Lines reports that its newbuild sternwheeler, the Queen of the Mississippi, was launched at Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Maryland on Sunday, July 17 - nine weeks ahead of schedule.  Immediately after the launching, tugboats skillfully nudged the new riverboat into Chesapeake Shipbuilding's Outfitting Basin Number 2 where the upper decks a ...

At its meeting in London last week, IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted mandatory measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from ships. The measures were adopted by a majority, rather than by a consensus. The MEPC adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex VI Regulations for the prevention of air pollution from ships that included adding a n ...

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract worth about $80 million by Swire Pacific Offshore to supply advanced anchor handling systems for four offshore vessels, currently under construction in Singapore.The systems are developed for the safer handl ...

Norway's Farstad Shipping ASA has reached an agreement with Brazil's Petroserv S.A. that will see it buy Petroserv's 50 percent share in BOS Navegação S.A. for $56.5 million.The deal will give Farstad Shipping e 100 percent ownership of BOS (Brazil Offshore Services), which was established in June 1999 as a joint venture between Farstad and Petroserv. Today t ...

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the main engines for a series of 25 tankers being built for Volga Shipping Co., Russia's oldest shipping company. Fifteen of the ships are to be constructed at the Okskaya shipyard in Navashino for shipowner Volga Flot Tanker, and the other ten at the Krasnoe Sormovo shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod, five for Bash Volga Tanker ...