Shipyard News

UK based Marine Software has supplied Dubai based Seacor Offshore with the Marine Planned Maintenance (MPM) package for their latest diesel electric DP-2 Anchor Handler John Coghill.

Ireland’s Safehaven Marine has launched the new Interceptor 48 pilot vessel Skua for the Port of Liverpool.

Dales Marine Services has taken another significant step forward in the development of activity at its Leith dry dock, with work there for the first time on a fishing vessel.

The first of class Lochin 366 Pilot Workboat will be available for viewing and demonstration on the floating pontoon at Seawork 2011.

The first of class workboat Erica, built by Newhaven UK based Newbury Engineering Boatbuilders Ltd to its own account, will make its debut on the floating pontoon at Seawork 2011.

Power Catamarans Ltd of Cornwall UK has launched its latest catamaran for Titan Environmental Services of South Wales.

Abeking & Rasmussen’s latest, the Latvian offshore patrol boat Skrunda, is the twelfth SWATH vessel built by the German yard since 1999, but the first of its type completed there for naval…

Fastnet Tern is the latest in a long line of specialist commercial catamarans supplied by Blyth Workcats Ltd.

Two Macduff Ship Design tug/workboats have entered service recently, further increasing the extensive range of vessels now offered by the company.

The Scottish Government has pledged funds towards the estimated £1.5m upgrade of MV Shapinsay, the ferry serving the Orkney islands route from Kirkwall to Shapinsay.

A five year maintenance contract with the Isle of Wight ferry operator Wightlink has added its weight to the growing prospects of a Portsmouth UK based ship repairer.

Two of the most powerful tanker handling and escort tugs in Europe, with Voith Schneider propulsion systems, have arrived in the Shetland Islands.

The new Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) Nordic entered service for the first time on 1 January, representing a major step forward in Germany’s ability to protect its North Sea coastline in the…

Lindenau Schiffswerft at Kiel is handing back the 55.2m Alkor, the second IFM Geomar research ship to undergo overhaul, classification and maintenance at the yard recently.

Devon UK based Hercules Engineering, which manufactures watertight deck hatches and other marine hardware, is now using a new waterproof grease called Ramonol Advanced.

Scotland’s Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd (MCS) has just completed a major refit and upgrade on its jumbo multicat/dive support vessel MCS Ailsa.

Repair specialists Dales Marine Services’ expansion of its dry docking capability on Scotland’s east coast earlier this year is delivering results, with the value of contracts generated and dry dock usage both…

The UK’s Cosalt Lowestoft branch has completed the refurbishment and servicing of two Fast Rescue Craft used on P&O Cruises transatlantic cruise ship the Oceana.

UK based Marine Software Ltd has recently supplied its Marine Planned Maintenance (MPM) solution to Sweden’s Rederi AB Uman, which will be installed on three Gibraltar flagged general cargo vessels.

The Christian Radich, winner of the Tall Ships Race and star of film and TV, is undergoing an important ‘makeover’ at A&P Tees.