Shipyard News

Some of the largest European shipbuilders have announced a new cooperative initiative to develop and demonstrate a connected vessel platform in a project named Code Kilo.

US commercial marine boatbuilder Metal Shark has been selected to build the next generation of fire boats for the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department.

Stena Line has achieved another milestone in its fleet investment program with the ‘float out’ ceremony of the second vessel in its new generation E-Flexer series.

Since returning to Tyneside, UK the historic Tyneside lifeboat, ‘Bedford’ has been securely stored at the Port of Tyne.

Construction is now well underway in Germany on a search and rescue boat for the maritime rescue service DGzRS, writes Tom Todd.

The Port of Los Angeles recently awarded US boatbuilder Vigor the contract to build two 56’ pilot boats designed in Europe by Camarc.

A&P Tyne has completed a non-routine docking and a special survey docking for Rever Offshore’s diving support vessels ‘Rever Sapphire’ and ‘Rever Polaris’.

Wind farm major Vattenfall has signed a contract with Windcat Workboats for the provision of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to service the Hollandse Kust Zuid 1&2 offshore wind farm.

Jan De Nul Group has ordered its third Offshore Jack-Up Installation Vessel with crane capacity of over 3,000t to enable it to handle increasingly larger offshore wind parts.

Seacat Services, has signed a multi-million-pound contract to build a new Chartwell 24 catamaran for deployment in the offshore wind sector.

Germany headquartered classification society DNV GL has been appointed as the lead researcher of the first phase of a new Singapore-based program to study the feasibility of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D…

Crew Transfer Vessels, the ‘MPI Cervantes’ and ‘MPI Cardenio’ have been purchased from Offshore Support Vessels BV for an undisclosed sum by Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) Ltd.

Corrocoat, a UK based specialist in anti-corrosion coatings, has announced the release of a new aerosol-delivered surface tolerant coating system.

A ship that previously belonged to Serco is expected to deliver over 2m medical consultations in its lifetime as the latest medical vessel for Edinburgh-based charity Vine Trust.

Sliedrecht, Netherlands- based company Bakker Repair + Services has succeeded in repairing the bow thruster engine of a Stena Line ferry within a week after establishing the failure.

The German multi-purpose research and survey ship, Capella, was leaving Hamburg’s Norderwerft in April after more than two months of major class work and overhaul, writes Tom Todd.