Shipyard News – Page 48
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NewsPowerful low weight fish farm cleaning vessel launched
Aquaculture workers will be aided by the launch of a 15m high-pressure cleaning boat for fish farm operations in Norway.
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NewsTri-party design WFSV
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.
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News30 years of MJ - 50 years of commercial RIBs
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 areas of the workboat and military sectors.
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NewsSuccessive waterbus orders for Damen
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.
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NewsGijon pilot boat
Irish boatbuilder Safehaven Marine has launched ‘Vigia’, an Interceptor 42 pilot boat for the port of Gijon in Spain.
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NewsMajor engineering and construction support contracts for Deltamarin
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 newbuilding.
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NewsVeka building world’s first hybrid trimarans
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 to a special, innovative ship being built by the shipyard.
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NewsHistoric transfer system order
Norwegian headquartered TTS Group will supply its largest ship lift and transfer system ordered to date to a Pakistani shipyard.
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NewsDiesel-electric HADAG ferry delivered
A “flat iron” design harbour ferry with a diesel electric drive has been taken into operation by Hamburg-based transport company HADAG.
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NewsSpecial boats spice up Diedrich workload
A research ship, a bunker boat and a police launch have lent variety to a busy workload at one of Germany’s leading small ship and boat repair yards this summer.
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NewsFunny Girl gets safety revamp
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.
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NewsWaterjet conversion for AG Ems
Island ferry operator AG Ems – the first German shipowner to convert an existing passenger ship to LNG dual fuel propulsion - has now carried out another unusual and complex conversion by replacing the old generation waterjets on its high speed catamaran Nordlicht.
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NewsSailing Ship veteran's three-year restoration
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.
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NewsWhy crane when you can wheel?
According to US manufacturer Wheelift, Self-propelled Modular Transporters as Automatic Guided Vehicles (SPMTs as AGVs) are becoming more popular for handling heavy loads in shipbuilding and repair.
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Marine antifouling alternative
UK based Silicon Products (SP) Marine has launched a new and innovative means of keeping a boat clean which it says provides a completely new alternative to anti-fouling paint.
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NewsFassmer repairs biggest police boat
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.
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NewsGerman yards demonstrate big ship versatility
Germany’s leading repair and conversion yards have demonstrated their versatility again with a flurry of big ship repair and refurbishment projects at a time when the future of the sector is far from certain.
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NewsGerman passenger ship revamped after fire
The 38.9m former excursion ship ''Adler Princess'', rendered largely useless by extensive smoke damage in a fire in Hamburg last year, has now been completely renovated and given a new lease of life.
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NewsDredger in time for Elbe deepening
Being built at home for Germany’s Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV) is its biggest trailing suction hopper dredger to support future operations on the busy River Elbe.
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News‘Spirit of Rathlin’
Arklow Marine Services, Arklow, Ireland has recently delivered the new 27m ‘Spirit of Rathlin’ ferry which has been designed to replace the existing ‘Canna’ and is set to operate between Ballycastle and Rathlin Island off the Co Antrim Coast.
