Ship&Offshore
20.10.2009
Shipbuilding

Contract award for training

Swiftships Shipbuilders, LLC, Morgan City, La., is being awarded contract to provide 35-meter patrol boat training in support of the Iraqi Navy.
Ship&Offshore
20.10.2009
Shipbuilding

ABS and Lloyd’s Register to offer common CSR software

ABS and Lloyd’s Register have agreed to use common software for the assessment of scantlings of bulk carriers and oil tankers designed to comply with the new IACS Common Structural Rules.
Ship&Offshore
19.10.2009
Shipbuilding

New VSAT antenna from Furuno

Furuno Electric Co., LTD., Nishinomiya, will introduce a new, high-performance Ku-band VSAT antenna for satellite-based maritime broadband communications.

Ship&Offshore
12.10.2009
Shipbuilding

Trailing suction hopper dredger "Gateway" launched

The naming and launch of the 12,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger "Gateway" took place at the IHC Merwede Offshore & Marine yard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, The ship is being built for Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. T IHC Merwede and Boskalis…