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NATO  is warning that although the recently hijacked MV SINAR KUDUS is now moving south towards the Somali coast, it can still conduct pirate mother-ship operations in the Arabian Sea area. Today (March 22) at 0550 utc  the SINAR KUDUS was reported in position 14 20N 057 11E, Course: 228 / Speed: 11ktsSINAR KUDUS is the unarm ...

Harley Marine Services, Seattle, has recently signed contracts with two local shipyards to begin construction on three double hull petroleum barges.  Harley Marine has a goal of reaching OPA 90 compliance before 2012. OPA 90  (Oil Pollution Act of 199090) requires all petroleum vessels and barges be double hull before 2015.  The first barge, to be named DAL ...

Swiftships Shipbuilders, LLC, Morgan City, La., is being awarded a $42,181,000 modification to a previously awarded Foreign Military Sales contract (N00024-09-C-2256) for the detail design and construction of three 35-meter patrol boats, with an option for three additional 35-meter patrol boats and associated technical services for the Iraqi navy. This contract modific ...

Fincantieri Marine Group's Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., is to build two 92.4 m x 19 m Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) for Tidewater Marine LLC, a subsidiary of Tidewater Inc., New Orleans. The two PSVs will be based on the MMC 887 LH PSV Design from MMC Ship Design of Poland.Built for deepwater operation, the two DP2 PSVs will be built to ABS Polar Class 7, ...

Australia-based Sea Speed Design has completed and released its new 17 meter windfarm catamaran design. Developed in accordance with Ireland's Norfolk Marine, the design, named the Tern Class Catamaran, is based on Sea Speed's Deep-Sea cat hull—which features a deep vee hull form, high wing clearance and extra strong structure and plating. This particular design will also ...

Seadrill has entered into an agreement for the construction of a new jack-up drilling rig with Sembcorp Marine's Jurong shipyard in Singapore. The rig is scheduled to be completed at the end of the third quarter 2013 and total project price is estimated at $530 million, which includes project management, drilling and handling tools, spares and capitalized interest. ...

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world's biggest shipbuilder, today won a KRW 800 billion (about $710.5 million) deal to build six 9,600 TEU containerships for shipping line Hamburg Süd.The agreement includes an option for Hamburg Süd  to order four additional  containerships of the same class. The ships - measuring 332 ...

ST Marine, the shipbuilding unit of Singapore's ST Engineering, reports that it has  received a notice of termination dated March 17, 2011 from French shipowner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) in respect of the shipbuilding contract for a Roll-on/Roll-off Passenger ferry. The Ropax was contracted in July 2007 for a contract price (inclusive of variable options) of approximately S ...

National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) recently signed a $411.47 million contract with Hyundai MIPO, South Korea to build four 220 m Roll-On/Roll-Off-Container (Ro-Con) ships. The contract contains an option to build two additional vessels.The 220 m ships, which will be classed by Lloyd’s Register, will have a beam of 32.2 m, draft of 9.5 m, ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded a Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led industry team $376 million to construct the  seventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The fixed-price-incentive-fee contract provides funding for the second of 10 ships the Navy awarded to the Lockheed Martin team in December 2010. The contracts for the remaining eight ships will be awarded through 2015. Mari ...