Shipyard News

Ferretti Security and Defence, or FSD for short, is a new business division of the Italian Ferretti Group which plans to offer a series of patrol boats for surveillance and patrol duties.

German shipyard Pella Sietas in Hamburg-Neuenfelde has taken on the former British trawler and fishery research ship ‘Clupea’, which is being overhauled and refitted by March for service as a refugee rescue…

Specialist workboats, small passenger ferries, pollution control vessels and research ships are among callers filling docks at German yards in the opening months of the New Year.

In November and December last year Ecospeed, from Belgian company Hydrex, was applied on the hull of the multi-purpose research vessel ‘Imor’ in Gdansk, Poland.

‘Red Jet 6’, UK ferry company Red Funnel’s largest ever Hi-Speed passenger ferry is currently under construction at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The £6m aluminium catamaran is the first…

The Port of La Coruna on Spain’s exposed North Atlantic coast, has recently invested in its third Seaward-built Nelson 40 pilot boat, following earlier purchases of a Nelson 40 in 1996 and…

UK-based ship repairer Burgess Marine has partnered with Kent-based Mechanica Utilities to maximise the use of its Dover footprint and share the company’s workshop and fabrication facilities, nationally, across all nine of…

The Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards Group has launched an ice class trailing suction hopper dredger for the Russian Port Agency, FSUE Rosmorport.

Netherlands-based Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion has said farewell to Marco Polo, the 800 passenger cruise ship owned by Global Maritime and operated by Cruise & Maritime Voyages.

The Municipality and the Fire Department in Bergen, Norway have been strongly focused on the creation of a modern Fire Department, and it was with great joy that the citys newest Fire…