Norway’s Fincantieri-owned Vard has won a contract for two commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs), with an option for a third ship, from an unnamed international client.

The CSOVs’ design has been developed by Vard Design in Ålesund and has…

An ammonia-fuelled X-DF-A two-stroke marine engine developed by Switzerland-based WinGD has been delivered and installed on the first of a series of four LPG/ammonia carriers being built for Belgian shipowner, Exmar. The 46,000m3 vessel will be the…

Singapore’s Seatrium Limited will soon deliver the first in a series of purpose-built floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to the Brazilian national oil company, Petrobras. The sailaway ceremony of Petrobras 78 (P-78) took place…

Framo, an Alfa Laval company based in Norway, has supplied and operated suction pump spread systems for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan, one of Asia’s largest offshore wind developments. Critical for securing jacket…

The construction of MSC Group’s six-ship Explora Journeys’ fleet is proceeding at pace with three key events marked simultaneously at Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente shipyard in Genoa. They were the launching of the Explora III, the third ship in the…

Kongsberg Discovery is to start building autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in the US. Initially, production of its HUGIN vehicles will begin at its existing production facility in Lynnwood, Washington. Future production arrangements have yet to…

Gothenburg-based tanker owner, Stena Bulk, has revealed that it is finalising preparations for the reflagging of five Suezmax tankers to the Swedish flag. The first vessel, Stena Sunrise, is ready for the reflagging process which will take place in…

Denmark’s Terma AS and UK-based Sperry Marine are to provide Scanter naval surveillance radar systems to the Canadian Coast Guard for icebreakers to be built at Seaspan Shipyards in Vancouver.  The partners will provide Scanter 4603 and Scanter 6002…

The hull of the cable-laying vessel, Nexans Electra, has arrived at Ulstein Verft in Norway following a voyage from the Crist shipyard in Poland. The outfitting and completion of the complex vessel has now begun in the yard’s under-cover dock hall in…

Research by classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has revealed that some offshore wind turbine support structures may not meet fatigue life design expectations. The investigation demonstrated that reliability-based inspections can help manage…