Delivered in October, the Atlantic Star is the first of five new ‘G4’ ro-ro/containerships (ConRo) for Atlantic Container Line (ACL) to be used for transatlantic service.  Its maiden voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia to...

Photo courtesy NASA Note: This week’s interesting ships are reposted and updated from gCaptain’s archives. When one thinks of a NASA ship, it’s generally not the seagoing type that pops...

Do not adjust your screen resolution, this interesting new ship is actually a compact accommodation vessel recently delivered to the Brazilian company GranEnergia.

Turkish power-ship builder Karadeniz Holding expects to supply its next electricity-generating vessel to a Middle Eastern or African nation and is also looking at U.S. and British markets, Chief Executive Orhan Karadeniz said on Tuesday.

Incat Crowther and Marine Engineering Consultants (MEC) have started on the construction of a 24m long-range catamaran patrol vessel that will work to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

Farstad Shipping’s new PSV Far Solitaire was today named the recipient vessel of the prestigious Ship of the Year 2012 award at the SMM conference in Hamburg, Germany. The vessel is basically...

Damen Shipyards on Monday released information about an innovative new concept vessel designed as a smaller heavy transport, offshore installation and ro-ro platform versatile enough to be suitable in a...

VB 10,000 The Versabar heavy lift vessel, the VB 10,000, was built in a span of 12 months and launched in October 2010 from Gulf Marine Fabricators in Ingleside, Texas....

To some gCaptain readers, the superyacht market may be an alien world, however, over the last ten years, this niche industry has exploded. With dedicated, professional teams in place globally,...

This week’s interesting ship is the new “Ramform W” class seismic vessel, two of which were ordered by Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) earlier this year. Our apologies to the naval architect...

Today’s ship photos come to us via the heavy lift operator, Jumbo Shipping, who has just announced it has won a contract to transport and install all 111 transition pieces,...

The OSD-designed fuel efficient seismic support vessel for Bourbon courtesy Offshore Ship Designers This weeks interesting ship is actually a series of six new fuel-efficient seismic support/chase vessels recently ordered...

This weeks interesting ship is the next generation MARLIN 2000 Blue feeder ship.  The Cardiff-based Graig Group has ordered a series of up to 26 of these new vessels to...

MPI Resolution courtesy MPI Offshore This week’s interesting ships are MPI Offshore’s MPI Discovery and MPI Adventure, two state-of-the-art Transport Installation Vessel’s (TIV), purpose-built for offshore wind farm installation and...

This weeks interesting ship is NYK Lines’ 180,000 DWT bulk carrier, Shin Koho, which was recently delivered at the Tsu Shipyard.  What makes this vessel interesting, is that the Shin...

© Stéphane Saissi Cable laying vessel “Ile De Sein” selected to recover Air France flight 447 data recorder This weeks interesting ship is the Ile De Sein.  Built in 2001,...

In commemoration of its 150th anniversary, Wilh. Wilhelmsen has launched the M/V Tønsberg, a Mark V class vessel said to be the largest, most sophisticated vessel ever built in the...

The Edda Fides is a type of vessel that goes by many names. Officially designated as an Accommodation Vessel these Floating Hotels are often reffered to as Flotels for their...

From the gCaptain Archives: In honor of the EPA’s Pollution Week, let’s take a look at an archived post on Skysails. But first, here is a brief update into the...

We are looking for a few specifics on this interesting vessel including: