Shipyard News

Southampton Marine Services Ltd (SMS) has completed ‘Cromarty Queen’, a new small car and passenger ferry for Scotland’s Cromarty Ferry Company Ltd.

The latest of the new generation Seaward Nelson 42 pilot boats has completed its acceptance trials at Cowes, Isle of Wight.

The ‘MPR 1’ has just been delivered by Neptune Shipyards BV to a new company, Marine Projects Rotterdam BV, enabling a focussed approach to wind farm developments.

SS Robin, the last remaining steam coaster in the world, was airlifted by two massive 600 ton cranes in a highly technical and challenging operation recently.

Due to a malfunctioning bow thruster whilst in the Port of Rotterdam, a 334m LOA container ship had to use the services of a tug boat for port maneuvering, so its owners…

On 17 May delegates and visitors to the ITS 2010 Tug & Salvage Convention in Vancouver awoke to find the first prototype BRAtt training tug moored outside the Westin Bayshore Hotel.

Sinbad Marine Services, based in Killybegs, Co. Donegal, has just taken delivery of yet another new catamaran built by local boatyard Mooney Boats Ltd. This is the third catamaran built by Mooney…

GEMS International NV in Bruges is taking a former 28.5m LOA German police boat into service after its conversion into a geophysical and hydrographic survey vessel at Belgium’s IDP Shipyard in Ostende.

Cargotec has received new conversion contracts from Stena RoRo for two RoPax vessels fitted with MacGregor cargo access equipment. These new orders are a continuation of four other Stena conversion contracts that…

It’s become more than a project, and seems almost a mission. Rafal Zahorski of Magemar is restoring the ‘MV Bembridge’, a task that has seen him trawl the lengths of the UK…

From it’s yard on Hayling Island UK, the Aluminium BoatBuilding Co Ltd has recently delivered ‘Vulcan’ to Excel Marine Services Ltd of Whitstable in Kent UK.

Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd has delivered ‘Thorney Bay’, a newbuild 10m line landing boat, for Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd.

Alnwick UK based specialised commercial workboat builders Alnmaritec Limited was chosen as the supplier of a new research and survey boat for the University of Plymouth.

Ireland’s Safehaven Marine has launched ‘Island Tiger’, the first of the company’s new Wildcat 53/16m GRP Wind Farm Catamarans.

Chesterfield UK based hull corrosion protection systems manufacturer Cathelco is supplying an ICCP hull corrosion protection system for a new type of jack-up vessel which can bring fully commissioned topsides to offshore…

The C/S ‘Nexans Skagerrak’, already one of the world’s most advanced cable ships, has had its capabilities quite literally extended.

The multitudes of organisms that attach themselves to hulls are expensive freeloaders, as the extra drag they create on a vessel’s hull means higher fuel consumption and regular drydocking.

Following the successful use of Swansea Dry Docks for the refit and refurbishment of Saga Pearl II, now successfully cruising, and work on MV Julia, which is now plying the Fastnet Ferry…

BWSeaCat Ltd is perhaps an unfamiliar name with many MJ readers, but 2010 has seen rapid growth for the Fareham UK based company which specialises in the design and build of commercial…

One of the most recent deliveries to Serco Marine Services under their contract with Damen Shipyards is the small ASD tug SD Eileen.