Shipyard News

The prototype of a new class of “future-oriented”, eco-friendly port passenger ferries is now in service with leading Hamburg operator HADAG.

The hand-over this autumn of a second 25.65m pilot tender to American owners is the latest in a string of firsts marking a ground-breaking year at leading German SWATH and SWASH production…

A major feat of engineering has seen the stern section of the new Polar research vessel Sir David Attenborough leave one British shipyard for another in the next step of its construction.

Danish composite workboat specialist boatbuilder Tuco has delivered a 12-metre ProZero DC to Nelleman Survey A/S where it will serve as a platform for hydrographic surveys.

Welsh workboat builder and servicing specialist, Mainstay Marine Solutions has secured funding to support the purchase of a 150/200 ton boat lift.

Hamburg shipyard Blohm+Voss is claiming to be the first European shipyard to launch a state-of-the-art automated technology for the coating of hulls developed by Hubert Palfinger.

The Polruan, UK-based shipyard of C.Toms Ltd in the Fowey river is busy with new construction but is also in the process of a major upgrade and expansion.

Aquaculture workers will be aided by the launch of a 15m high-pressure cleaning boat for fish farm operations in Norway.

Mainprize Offshore is working hard to attract even more business from the still growing market for offshore wind, so it has built its cleverest windfarm service vessel yet, the MO4.

The Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) celebrated its 50th birthday a couple of years ago but when ‘Maritime Journal’ started up 30 years ago the RIB was only to be found in specialist…

Damen Shipyards has secured two successive orders for a total of five waterbuses, which includes its first orders for the brand-new Waterbus 2407 model.

Irish boatbuilder Safehaven Marine has launched ‘Vigia’, an Interceptor 42 pilot boat for the port of Gijon in Spain.

Finland-headquartered Deltamarin Ltd has signed contracts with Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd (XSI), which is located in southeast China, for engineering and construction support services for the Viking Line LNG-fuelled ro-pax vessel…

A spokesperson for the Dutch Veka Group is claiming that technicians heading out the offshore wind farms can look forward to a more pleasant commute with considerably lower risk of seasickness thanks…

Norwegian headquartered TTS Group will supply its largest ship lift and transfer system ordered to date to a Pakistani shipyard.

A “flat iron” design harbour ferry with a diesel electric drive has been taken into operation by Hamburg-based transport company HADAG.

The 68.57m long Heligoland passenger ferry Funny Girl is back in service on the north German coast after extensive modernisation – its second major revamp since entering service 44 years ago.

The 106 year old four-masted barque Peking is coming home to Germany from New York in July for restoration and renovation expected to last some three years and cost about €26 million.

The biggest patrol boat serving river and coastal waters police in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has undergone extensive regular maintenance and small repairs.