HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has secured its first US Navy maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) assignment, covering work on the 41,000 tonnes Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo vessel USNS Alan Shepard. The ship, commissioned in 2007 and assigned to…

US representatives Ed Case (Democrat, Hawaii) and James Moylan (Republican, Guam) have introduced the Merchant Marine Allies Partnership Act to the House of Representatives. The bill proposes targeted exceptions to the Merchant Marine Act of 1920,…

Chinese seafood conglomerate Chishan Group has acquired Shandong Baibuting Shipbuilding, restructuring the dormant facility in Rongcheng, Shandong province, under the new name Shandong Fulton Shipbuilding. The move marks Chishan’s entry into…

The vehicle carrier Thames Highway has completed a repair project at Remontowa Shiprepair Yard in Gdańsk, Poland, for Stargate Shipmanagement. The work, part of scheduled maintenance, included hull treatment, mechanical servicing, and general upkeep…

The refrigerated cargo vessel CS Care, operated by Cool Carriers, has completed an intermediate survey at Turku Repair Yard, part of BLRT Grupp. The work included the application of a silicone hull coating supplied by Hempel Marine.

The coating’s…

Shipyard Reimerswaal has purchased a second floating dock to increase capacity at its facilities. The dock, with a length overall of 168m, will be able to handle vessels of up to 18,000 tonnes and a maximum beam of 28m.

Delivery is expected by the…

President Donald Trump’s nominee for Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Daryl Caudle, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US Navy is looking to the cruise industry for solutions to its ongoing ship maintenance issues.

Speaking at his…

Bluestone has completed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) retrofit of two advanced air quality systems on board of a large passenger vessel, with the project carried out both during voyage and in drydock.

The installation took over…