Vessels & Shipyards

The two UT 771 WP support vessels now being built by Sinopacific are edging into MPSV territory, explains Ronny Pål Kvalsvik of Rolls-Royce.

Some reported incidents of ‘DP technology failure’ are actually down to human error.

Bringing different capabilities together isn’t a question of just piling everything you can onto one ship, even if that ship is as big as the 215.9m Petrofac JSD 6000.

Both physical and legislative challenges have come together to give rise the first LNG icebreaker, writes Stevie Knight

A very sophisticated offshore support training facility has been built, housed not in a high end OEM R&D installation, but in a not-for-profit facility in Mumbai, India. By Stevie Knight

There are divergent forces at the heart of the DP certification: on one side is the need for capable and experienced operators, while on the other side there is a surge of…

A new lightweight passenger-vehicle ferry to an established Australian design has been built in the Philippines for service in French Polynesia is described by David Tinsley.

With ever-tighter emissions limits in port areas, there are pressures on vessels operating mostly within harbor confines, like tugs and bunker barges, to be as clean as possible; Dag Pike describes an…

There’s a difference between ice and ice – it’s not always the same thing.

Damen Shipyards’ ‘series production’ philosophy, which has proved so successful in the workboat, tug and patrol craft markets, is successfully transferring to coastal and short sea shipping as demand grows for high-quality…