Maersk Supply Service, DeepOcean UK and Damen have held the keel laying ceremony of Maersk Supply Service’s new subsea support vessel at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania.   Touted as a next-generation cable laying vessel, the Damen Offshore Carrier 8500-series OSV will enable Maersk Supply Service to bundle its survey and trenching capabilities within the offshore cable and umbilical markets.   According to DeepOcean UK’s Tony Inglis, the vessel will be well suited for installat...

DECEMBER 2, 2014 — Hamburg, Germany, headquartered Hapag-Lloyd and Valparaiso, Chile, headquartered Chilean Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) have completed a merger that will create the fourth largest container liner shipping company in the world   Under the arrangement, CSAV is merging its container shipping business into Hapag-Lloyd in exchange for a shareholding stake that will see it become a core shareholder, with an initial 30% of the company. That will make CSAV Hapag-Llo...

  China’s shipyards registered a good increase in newly received shipbuilding orders and orderbook backlog in the first 10 months of this year, according to figures from China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (Cansi).   This year up until 30 October, Chinese shipyards across the country received new orders with tonnage totalling 53.73m dwt, up 15.7% compared to the same period of 2013. The orderbook on hand during the 10-month period stood at 153.55m dwt, an in...

The Kleven Verft shipyard in Norway delivered Wednesday  the LNG-powered platform supply vessel MV Rem Eir, build no 356, to Remøy Shipping.   With a length of 92.5 meters and a deck capacity of 1,080 m2, Rem Eir is the world’s largest LNG powered PSV, according to Kleven.   The PSV is of the Wärtsilä Ship Design VS4412 DF PSV design.   The vessel has been entered into a long term charter for Statoil for work on the Norwegian continental shelf. Rem Eir is the fou...