The following is a summary of the Weekly Marine News as of 19 August 2011. For best viewing follow this link.
U.S. & CANADA
Colonna’s Shipyard awarded Navy contract
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Colonna’s Shipyard, Inc., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $7.7m contract
for a dry-docking on USS Squall (PC 7).
<http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1228:
2011aug00174&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=107>
Huntington Ingalls Industries awarded Navy contract
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Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $11m
Navy contract for services for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer.
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2011aug00161&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=107>
National Oilwell Varco gets $1.5 billion drillship equipment contract
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National Oilwell Varco, Inc. has signed contracts to supply drilling
equipment packages for seven drillships to Brazilian shipbuilder Estaleiro
Atlântico Sul.
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2011aug00155&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=107>
BAE Mobile Yard Wins Dredge Contract
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BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards Alabama has been selected by Weeks Marine,
Inc. to build an 8,500 cubic yard capacity twin screw trailing suction
hopper dredge.
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Siemens D-E for Tidewater PSVs
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The diesel-electric propulsion systems for the two platform supply vessels
in construction at Fincantieris Bay Shipbuilding in the USA will be
supplied by the US subsidiary of Siemens.
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WORLD
Rolls-Royce wins Brazilian OSV order
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Rolls-Royce has announced a new contract to design and equip two UT 735 SE
offshore supply vessels for Brasil Supply. The company says the order is
worth £15 million.
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DOF Subsea Asia Pacific wins contracts
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DOF ASA reports that its DOF Subsea Asia Pacific subsidiary has secured
multiple contracts awards in Asia and Australia over the last couple of
weeks with a total contract value of about $47 million
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2011aug00181&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=107>
Orders in Asian oil and gas
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ABB won equipment orders worth a total of $200 million from Samsung,
Hyundai, Keppel FELS and Jurong Shipyard, in South-Korea and Singapore, for
23 new jack-up and DP drilling vessels and one FPSO.
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Austal awarded contract for eight Australian Customs patrol boats
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Austal has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of eight
new 57.8 m patrol boats for the Australian Customs and
Border Protection
Service. The approximate value of the contract is A$330 million.
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2011aug00122&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=107>
TECHNOLOGY & FEATURES
2012 version of CAD/CAM program released
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Canadian company ShipConstructor Software has released a new version of its
AutoCAD based CAD/CAM program. ShipConstructor 2012
enables users to work in a more advanced CAD environment by adding AutoCAD
2012 compatibility.
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