Engineering News

Wärtsilä announced today that they have been contracted by Koedood Diesel Service BV to supply a complete power system, including two of its 6-cylinder

By Lars Petter Blikom, DNV As part of a project to define the future design of container feeder ships for operation in the Baltic Sea, some of my colleagues

Sauter Carbon Offset Design (SCOD) says they have come up with an alternative design for the USCG’s new Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRC) that

To benefit from the current strong demand for high specification drilling units Seadrill announced today that it has entered into a turnkey construction

SEOUL (Dow Jones)–Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (009540.SE), the world’s largest shipbuilder by sales, said Thursday first-quarter net profit

Norway’s Kleven Maritime said today that it will be constructing a second seismic vessel for Sanco Shipping AS at the company’s Myklebust Verft

Singapore-listed COSCO Corp said today that it has contracted to build US$ 200 million harsh-environment semi-submersible flotel for Mexico’s Cotemar

Coinciding with the announcement of Lamprell’s newbuild jackup order today, DNV released a new rule book for self-elevating units, aka jackups, which

Lamprell announced today the receipt of a USD $227 million contract award from an international drilling contractor for the construction of a jackup drilling

By Hyundai Heavy Industries As the fuel consumption efficiency of a ship is becoming a primary concern for shipowners, the length of the hull and the operating

USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), the innovative high-speed catamaran transport ship under construction by shipbuilder Austal in Mobile, Alabama, successfully completed

Rolls-Royce provides equipment found on over 30,000 ships in 70 different navies around the world, including nearly every ship in the US Navy.  I met up with

Rig builder Lamprell announced today the receipt of a $333 million order for two, Super 116E (Enhanced) Class jackups from Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling

Destined for the Norwegian North Sea, a new semisubmersible is delivered from Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard. COSLPromoter, the third semi-submersible drilling

The Norwegian-owned offshore accommodation vessel, Edda Fides, one of the most advanced and sophisticated vessels of its type in the world, has been dry-docked

Newbuild orders for subsea construction and supply vessels have been placed today by Norwegian shipowners Rem Offshore and Island Offshore. Having built a

The idea was actually born in the in the ice-strewn reaches of the Great Lakes during the late 19th century when the car ferry ‘St. Ignace’ was

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–Keppel Corp. (BN4.SG) said Thursday first-quarter net profit more than doubled from a year earlier, mainly because of accounting

ABB announced today that they have won orders worth more than $60 million to provide complete power and Azipod propulsion systems for two new cruise ships to

Aker Solutions has won a contract from Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd to supply a complete drilling equipment package for a new jack-up drilling rig, being