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While certain maritime markets continue to struggle, we found

Shipyard some compelling stories of success in ship and boat yards, new build and repair at various points around the globe.

SHIPBUILDING

Highlights 2017

HSHI Delivers 15,000 TEU Ship and others provide 23,269 total installed of its capability and bene? ts from the LNGPac fuel storage, supply and control

Hapag-Lloyd took delivery of the 11th horsepower, with 3,000 hp on the cutter- latest advances in digital technologies, system. The engines will be double elas- and ? nal 15,000 TEU vessel received head. When the dredge is not offshore, including 3D and virtual reality, to en- tically mounted to minimize the noise, a through its merger with UASC. The 369 it is equipped with a walking spud car- sure that the ship’s design is re? ned ear- technique to enable the ship to ful? ll the x 51-m containership, AFIF, was handed riage for ef? cient work in inlets and in lier in the process. DNVGL classi? cation society’s ‘Silent over to Hapag-Lloyd’s Ship Manage- protected waters. 52 people can be com- R’ rating, thus allowing the sonar equip- ment by Hyundai Samho Heavy Indus- fortably housed onboard. Fassmer to Build LNG Fueled RV ment to be used without disturbance tries (HSHI) in South Korea in July. The dredge is named for Senior Vice The Fassmer shipyard in Germany is from underwater radiated engine noise.

As a result of the merger, the average President and Manager of Weeks Ma- constructing a new research vessel to be capacity of vessels in the ? eet has risen rine’s Dredging Division, J. Stephen owned by Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt Damen, Metal Shark Team by almost 1,000 TEU, from 5,860 to the Chatry. und Hydrographie (BSH), the Federal Damen Shipyards Group entered a current 6,840 TEU, and the average ship Maritime and Hydrographic Agency. partnership with Metal Shark for the age has dropped from 8.5 to 7.2 years. BAE Starts on UK Warship The 75-m ship dubbed Atair will re- construction of up to 13 Damen SPa

Hapag-Lloyd now has 230 vessels, in- BAE Systems has begun to build the place its 30 year old namesake, and will 2606 patrol boats. The U.S. Navy re- cluding six ultra large container vessels ? rst of the U.K. Royal Navy’s new Type be the ? rst German research vessel op- cently selected Louisiana-based Metal (ULCVs) with capacities of 19,870 TEU 26 Global Combat Ships, the ? rst ship to erating on lique? ed natural gas (LNG) Shark to build Near Coastal Patrol Ves- and 11 vessels with capacities of 15,000. be dubbed Glasgow. This event follows fuel. The engines for the new vessel will sels (NCPVs) for U.S. partner nations the U.K government’s recent award of a be supplied by Wärtsilä, who will also through the Department of Defense

C&C to Build $60m Cutter Dredger contract worth approximately $4.8 bil- supply exhaust cleaning systems based Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program.

Weeks Marine Inc. (WMI) ordered a lion for the ? rst three ships to be built at on selective catalytic reduction (SCR) Under the terms of the contract Metal new $60 million oceangoing, 30-inch BAE Systems’ sites in Glasgow. technology and the LNGPac system for Shark will build up to 13, 85-ft. De? ant- hydraulic cutter suction dredge, the JS According to the shipbuilder, the Type complete fuel gas handling. The full class welded aluminum cutters for the

Chatry. Construction is underway in 26 Global Combat Ship will be a world- scope of Wärtsilä’s supply for the Atair Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Hon-

Belle Chase, La., at C&C Marine and class antisubmarine warfare ship, replac- includes two six-cylinder Wärtsilä 20DF duras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and other

Repair. ing the Type 23 anti submarine variant dual-fuel engines capable of running on U.S. partner nations.

The JS Chatry will measure 310 x 72 frigates, with the ? rst ship due to be either LNG or conventional liquid fuels, Additionally, Metal Shark will supply ft., its pumps are powered by GE’s Tier delivered to the Royal Navy in the mid one six-cylinder Wärtsilä 20 engine, two electro-optical infrared sensors, diag-

IV diesel electric engines. Those engines 2020s. Type 26 is cutting edge in terms exhaust cleaning systems and a Wärtsilä nostic equipment, in-country reactiva-

BAE Systems Starts on UK Warship

HSHI delivers a 15,000 TEU Containership for Hapag Lloyd.

Fassmer to build LNG-fuelled RV

Hapag-Lloyd

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