Damen Shipyards Group has acquired Dutch shiprepair and conversion specialist Shipdock, adding facilities in Amsterdam and Harlingen to its expanding repair and conversion portfolio.

Shipdock was originally established in 1877. Following its…

Cleveland Ship LLC has submitted a bid to acquire the entire shipbuilding division of Northrop Grumman, including the Newport News shipyard in Virginia, one of the most strategically important naval shipbuilding facilities in the United States.

Acco…

Balaena has completed a drydocking and maintenance programme for the UK-flagged offshore support vessel Seven Arctic, which has now left the company's Tyne facility following work carried out on behalf of Subsea7.

The project included a range of…

Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (ASRY) has completed a major maintenance and upgrade programme for the jack-up drilling rig Admarine 339 owned by oil and gas drilling contractor ADES.

The project included a Special Periodic Survey,…

Shipyards are ready for an expected burst in retrofits, whether in terms of fuel efficiency, or alternative fuels, said Sergei Kravchenko, chairman of Tallinn Shipyard, last week. Yards are poised to convert existing vessels to methanol, LNG or…

Rostom Merzouki, VP of Sustainability at class society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), told audiences at an ABS conference last week that carbon emissions had “stopped being an externality”, and that efficiency retrofits would be integral to…

A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned that a persistent shipyard maintenance backlog is leaving attack submarines idle for extended periods, reducing fleet readiness and generating billions of dollars in additional…

The Malta-flagged Ultramax bulk carrier Maria Topic has returned to commercial service following the installation of OceanWings rigid wingsails during a retrofit project completed at Tsuneishi Shipbuilding in Japan. The project, undertaken by…