VARD is happy to announce that NB 978 for Island Offshore has departed from Vard Shipyards Romania – Tulcea and its now on her way to Vard Langsten in Norway. 🎉 This vessel is a VARD 3 25 design developed in close collaboration between Island Offshore and VARD. It is designed for best possible station-keeping, manoeuvrability,… Read More
Technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply its flexible and highly efficient Wärtsilä 46TS engines for Australia’s largest-ever reciprocating engine power plant. The 300 MW plant will provide critical grid balancing and system security in Australia. The fast-starting flexible capacity provided by the Wärtsilä 46TS engines will enable greater integration of renewable energy into… Read More
America builds 0.1 percent of the world’s ships. China builds 53 percent. Shipbuilding executive Alex Wong says he knows how to fill the gap. If America wants to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty, it needs to build more warships. China currently dominates global shipbuilding—producing vessels at a scale the United States can no longer match. Alex Wong,… Read More
Türkiye has launched UAB Mavi Vatan, its first domestically designed suction dredger, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said on Sept. 26. Built in a Turkish shipyard, the vessel will enter service after several months of sea trials, he said. Uraloğlu said the dredger is 85 meters long, can dredge to a depth of 20… Read More
Recently, Fujian Funing Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of Fujian Shipbuilding Industry Group (Fujian Shipbuilding), signed a contract for one 66.9-meter anchor-handling tugboat. It is reported that the vessel was independently developed and designed by Fujian Fuchuan Ocean Engineering Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. and is a multi-purpose offshore work tugboat for unlimited navigation areas…. Read More
