Wärtsilä has hired ex-DNV GL Maritime Software VP, Torsten Buessow, to head its recently acquired Transas business, a company providing digital data, charts, fleet operation systems and training programmes. more

Seattle-based naval architect and marine engineering firm Jensen Maritime is providing the design for up to ten Tier IV tractor tug boats being built by Nichols Brother Boat Builders for Foss Maritime.more

Fishing company Saupiquet has confirmed an order with French yard Piriou to build a 67m tuna freezer fishing vessel.more

Four medium-speed gensets, to be built by MAN Energy Solutions’ licensee, CMP, in China, are to be installed on board an offshore wind support vessel under construction at Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard.more

Steel has been cut at Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) in Qatar, marking the start of construction of the first-ever offshore accommodation unit to be built there.more

Italian yard Fincantieri said it has signed a contract with U.S. group Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings for construction of one 54,000gt ultra-luxury cruise ship for the Regent Seven Seas Cruises.more

Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions Oy (RMC) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) for construction of a RoPax ferry with a hybrid propulsion system with Kvarken Link, a Finnish- Swedish consortium.more

Chevron Australia is to charter two Maersk Supply Service anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels for the second stage of its Gorgon field drilling progamme on the North West Shelf in Western Australia, starting in the second...more