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Baltic Workboats to Build Multipurpose Vessel for Estonia's State Fleet

Last week Baltic Workboats AS signed a contract for the design and construction of a new multipurpose vessel with the Estonian State Fleet. The vessel will be powered by biomethane and electricity to guarantee ecological sustainability and will be …
Jan 24, 2024 / Vessels

Chipolbrok christens 62,000 dwt multipurpose vessel Yu An

Chipolbrok named its latest newbuild vessel Yu An at a ceremony in China on December 27. The 62,000 dwt multipurpose vessel is one of the largest of its kind in the world and has a 300-tonne lift capacity. It measures 199.9.m in length by 32.26 m …
Jan 5, 2024 / Vessels

Skarv Shipping Solutions orders 4 short-sea MPVs

Skarv Shipping Solutions has signed a contract with Huanghai Shipbuilding for four 7,000 dwt, low-carbon, multipurpose vessels, with an option for four more. The contract agreed is for four ships, with an option for another two plus two ships. The …
Sep 29, 2023 / Curious

Jan De Nul completes project for TenneT with installation of second marine cable for offshore wind farm 'west Alpha'

Cable-laying vessel Isaac Newton, multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant and a remotely-controlled cable burying vehicle of consortium Jan De Nul Group-LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the second marine cable for the …
Jun 26, 2023 / Curious

Swire Projects’ New H-Class Vessel Embarks on Inaugural Voyage

Swire Projects, a projects and heavy lift shipping services division of Swire Shipping, completed the inaugural voyage of its first of three chartered H-Class vessels, Pacific Hero. The versatile 28,500 deadweight multipurpose vessel has a lifting …
Mar 19, 2023 / Vessels

Shearwater GeoServices delivering next generation deepwater dual ROV OBN deployment vessel to industry

Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (Shearwater) is set to introduce the geophysical company’s first dual ROV seismic vessel, equipped with a broad scope of operational capabilities. Designed to deploy ocean bottom nodes in both deep and shallow water …
Oct 4, 2022 / Vessels

Damen delivers complete mission equipment package for KOEM multipurpose vessel

Damen Shipyards delivered a complete equipment package for the multipurpose vessel ENDAM. Owned by the Korean Marine Environment Management Corporation (KOEM), the newbuild combines emergency oil spill recovery activities with maintenance dredging …
Sep 19, 2022 / Curious

AAL Shipping increases order of its innovational third generation newbuildings

Late November 2021, AAL Shipping (AAL) announced the launch of its third-generation newbuilding plan with the initial order of four 32,000 deadweight (DWT) premium project multipurpose vessels and classifying them the ‘Super B-Class’.The design of …
Feb 23, 2022 / Curious

AAL Moves Heavy Lift Cargo For Australia’s First-Ever “Waste To Energy” (WTE) Plant

At the end of September 2021, the 19,000dwt heavy lift multipurpose vessel, the AAL Nanjing, loaded four large chimney sections, with a combined weight of close to 500 metric tonnes and 6,000 cubic metres in size. The units were manufactured and …
Nov 16, 2021 / Vessels

AAL Delivers 4 RTGs To Port of Oslo

This Summer, AAL Shipping (AAL) delivered four of the largest rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) in the carrier’s history to the Port of Oslo (Oslo Havn KF), Norway. These new generation mobile units, measuring 36 m in height and 28 m in length, were …
Jul 14, 2021 / Vessels