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Seaspan Shipyards Progresses to Next Phase of Designing and Building Multi-Purpose Vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard
Seaspan Shipyards (Seaspan) has been awarded the Construction Engineering (CE) and Long Lead Items (LLI) contracts for the pre-construction work of the Canadian Coast Guard’s (CCG) first six Multi-Purpose Vessels (MPV). Following the successful …
Mar 28, 2024 / Curious
HMM to conduct field tests of onboard carbon capture system for containership
HMM announced that it plans to conduct field tests of an onboard carbon capture system (OCCS) for containerships along with SHI (Samsung Heavy Industries) and PANASIA in the second half of this year. OCCS is an advanced technology to capture CO2 …
Apr 19, 2023 / Curious
DeepOcean charters offshore support vessel
Ocean services provider DeepOcean strengthens its offering to the offshore renewables and oil and gas industries by entering a two-year time charter agreement for the Stril Server multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV). DeepOcean is chartering the …
Oct 26, 2022 / Vessels
Further Fleet Expansion Strengthens AAL’s Global Services And Delivers 90% Control Of Ots MPV Operating Fleet
AAL Shipping (AAL) has added further vessels to its owned multipurpose cargo vessel (MPV) fleet. This month saw the delivery of the 2010 ‘AAL Gunsan’ (ex-BBC America) and her sister vessel, the 2009 ‘AAL Geelong’ (ex-BBC Valparaiso) – the latter …
Oct 12, 2022 / Vessels
MacGregor signs a two-year agreement on OnWatch Scout use together with a service and spares order for AHC cranes
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has signed a two-year OnWatch Scout agreement and has been selected to supply spare parts and services for the Offshore Support Vessel, MPV Everest, which is owned by Maritime Construction Service and equipped with …
Jun 22, 2022 / Vessels
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 acquires 66,000 dwt MPP tonnage from the global fleet and announces newbuilding of an additional 128,000 dwt
Specialist heavy lift project carrier, AAL Shipping (AAL) has acquired two heavy lift ‘mega-size’ 33,000dwt W-Class multipurpose vessels (MPVs) from the second-hand market, the ‘AAL Mars’ and the ‘AAL Merkur’. The vessels have been serving within the …
Oct 27, 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
MPV AAL Singapore transported two Siemens generators for EU & Iraq power plants
The ‘mega-size’ heavy lift multipurpose vessel (MPV), AAL Singapore, transported two Siemens generators with a combined weight of almost 700mt for two separate gas-fired power plants in Europe and Iraq that will help to generate a total clean energy …
Jul 2, 2020 / Vessels
New plan for Australian Antarctic shipping
The Australian Antarctic Division will use the MPV Everest to resupply its Antarctic stations and sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island next summer.The Ice-Class Multi-purpose vessel is operated by Dutch company Maritime Construction Services and is capable …
Apr 16, 2020 / Curious