Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (ASRY) has completed a major maintenance and upgrade programme for the jack-up drilling rig Admarine 339 owned by oil and gas drilling contractor ADES.

The project included a Special Periodic Survey,…

Shipyards are ready for an expected burst in retrofits, whether in terms of fuel efficiency, or alternative fuels, said Sergei Kravchenko, chairman of Tallinn Shipyard, last week. Yards are poised to convert existing vessels to methanol, LNG or…

Rostom Merzouki, VP of Sustainability at class society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), told audiences at an ABS conference last week that carbon emissions had “stopped being an externality”, and that efficiency retrofits would be integral to…

A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned that a persistent shipyard maintenance backlog is leaving attack submarines idle for extended periods, reducing fleet readiness and generating billions of dollars in additional…