General News

The USA has become the 53rd state to ratify Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), with the deposition of an instrument of ratification with…

Vroon Offshore Services of The Netherlands (VOS) today took delivery of another newbuilding, field support vessel VOS Prospector. The vessel was built by the Zamakona Shipyard in Spain.The newbuilding, designed for standby…

Kittiwake and BP announced yesterday that agreement has been reached and completed for Kittiwake Developments Ltd to purchase BP's majority shareholding in Krystallon Ltd effective immediately.In 2006 BP and Kittiwake formed Krystallon,…

Seadrill took delivery of the deep water drilling rig 'West Hercules' from the DSME shipyard in South Korea. West Hercules is a sixth generation, high specification, deepwater, state of the art semi-submersible…

A federal court in Virginia has handed the Shipbuilders Council of America its second victory this year in cases it brought against the US Coast Guard for allowing major work on Jones…

The Brazilian government has pledged R$10bn ($4.5bn) of soft-funding to support the country?s resurgent shipbuilding sector. The government?s chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, said the funds would guarantee not only the construction…

Austal USA?s 127 metre trimaran Littoral Combat Ship, LCS 2 Independence, has been christened during an official ceremony held at its Mobile, Alabama shipyard.The General Dynamics LCS Team - within which Austal…

Multi-purpose ro-ro operator Sea-Cargo AS in Norway has placed an order for four cargo ferries powered by LNG rather than bunker fuel. They are believed to be the first of their kind.In…

Marco Polo Marine Ltd in Singapore has, via its wholly-owned subsidiary Bina Marine Pte Ltd, secured a S$74.5 million contract to build an 80m DP2 subsea operations vessel for Hallin Marine Subsea…