VT Halmatic Delivers Pilot Boat
Since its introduction to the VT Halmatic range in 1993 a considerable number of Nelson 42 Mk11s have been built as patrol boats. Operators of these boats include…
Historic Ship to be Named in Portsmouth
HMS Clyde, the first ship to be built in Portsmouth Naval Base for nearly 40 years, will be named in a night ceremony at VT Shipbuilding’s facilities on Thursday, September 7.
Inmarsat Accelerates into Hand-held Satphone Market
Inmarsat and ACeS International Limited (ACeS) announced a collaboration to offer low-cost hand-held and fixed voice services, initially in the Asian market with…
Russia Receives New Stealth Gunboat
Fresh from St. Petersburg's Almaz shipyard, the Astrakhan will be the first in the navy warship to have stealth capabilities and can be armed with various artillery…
China Builds Shipyards to Drive Industry
CHINA will build three shipyards at Bohai Bay, the mouths of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River over the next five years, according to the national shipbuilding authority.
Public Comment Period Open
The public comment period is now OPEN for Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade, a draft document that…
China Oil Producer Sees Profits Soar
China's top offshore oil and gas producer, CNOOC, has posted a 38 percent jump in earnings for the first half of the year. The better-than-expected results were…
Korean Shipyards Face Challenge
Korean shipbuilders' earnings are forecast to improve through 2008 and beyond as the tight supply and demand balance allows them to pass on rising costs, said investment…
Transocean Provides Update On Fleet Contract Status
Transocean Inc.’s report of drilling rig status and contract information covering the company's offshore drilling fleet has been updated as of September 1. Drilling…
L-3 to Develop Container Security Device
L-3 Communications’s Security and Detection Systems subsidiary has been selected by the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) to provide 30…
P&I Urges Use of Parallel Indexing
The London P&I Club has said that two recent casualties may well have been avoided if the bridge teams of the vessels involved had made use of parallel indexing…
Terion Launches FleetView 3T
Terion launched FleetView 3T -- a product line extension specifically designed for managing tanker trailers. The FleetView 3 technology platform was developed to…
World’s Largest Containership Delivered
On September 1, Maersk Line took delivery of M/S Emma Maersk, built by Odense Steel Shipyard. The Emma Maersk is the first in a new series of PS-class vessels and…
China's Shipbuilding Industry Sees Rapid Growth
China's shipbuilding industry continues to grow rapidly with shipbuilders getting new orders totaling 16.08 million deadweight tons in the first half of the year…
Daewoo Shipbuilding Wins $1.27B Angola Order
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.won an order worth $1.27b to build an oil drilling and production platform for an Angolan unit of energy giant Chevron Corp.
DRS Technologies Wins $21M Navy Contracts
DRS Technologies Inc. has been awarded several new contracts with a combined value of approximately $21m to design and produce power and control equipment for next…
Northrop Grumman Wins $95.8M Navy Contract
Northrop Grumman Corporation was awarded a $95.8m contract for the detail design of the U.S. Navy's 21st century DDG 1000 destroyer. The contract, to be performed by the company's Ship Systems sector…
General Dynamics Wins $13.7M Contract
On August 31, General Dynamics Corp. announced that its subsidiary General Dynamic Boat has received a contract worth $13.7m from the U.S. Navy. As per the agreement…
W&T Offshore Announces Appointment
W&T Offshore, Inc. appointed Todd E. Grabois as Vice President and Treasurer. Grabois, age 46, was most recently Chief Financial Officer for Texas Independent Exploration Ltd., from 2001 to 2006.
ST1 Reduces Availability Costs for Ohio Class Submarines
Submarine Team One (ST1), Team Submarine’s cross-organizational group tasked with reducing submarine maintenance costs, has continued its efforts by pushing for…
