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Interesting Ship of The Week – MPI Discovery and MPI Adventure
MPI Resolution courtesy MPI Offshore This week’s interesting ships are MPI Offshore’s MPI Discovery and MPI Adventure, two state-of-the-art Transport Installation Vessel’s (TIV), purpose-built for...
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Interesting Ship of The Week – NASA Recovery Ships
Photo courtesy NASA Note: This week’s interesting ships are reposted and updated from gCaptain’s archives in commemoration of the last space shuttle launch today, July 8th, 2011. When one thinks of a...
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Interesting Ship of The Week – MARLIN 2000 Blue container feeders
This weeks interesting ship is the next generation MARLIN 2000 Blue feeder ship. The Cardiff-based Graig Group has ordered a series of up to 26 of these new vessels to be built at the Jin Hai...
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Interesting Ship of The Week – Bourbon’s new seismic support/chase vessels
The OSD-designed fuel efficient seismic support vessel for Bourbon courtesy Offshore Ship Designers This weeks interesting ship is actually a series of six new fuel-efficient seismic support/chase...
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Ship Photos of The Week: Heavy Lift Offshore Windmill Installation
Today’s ship photos come to us via the heavy lift operator, Jumbo Shipping, who has just announced it has won a contract to transport and install all 111 transition pieces, or TP’s, for the Anholt...
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Interesting Ship of the Week – The new ‘Ramform W’ class seismic vessel
The Ramform W class seismic vessel This week’s interesting ship is the new “Ramform W” class seismic vessel, two of which were ordered by Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) earlier this year. Our apologies...
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World’s Largest Sloop Arrives for Refit at Pendennis Plus
Mirabella V To some gCaptain readers, the superyacht market may be an alien world, however, over the last ten years, this niche industry has exploded. With dedicated, professional teams in place...
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Interesting Ship – Versabar’s VB 10,000 Heavy Lift Catamaran
Versabar's VB 10,000 lift system is used in the decomissioning of an 1,800-ton topside. Photo (c) Versabar VB 10,000 The Versabar heavy lift vessel, the VB 10,000, was built in a span of 12 months and...
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Interesting Ship – The Damen “Do-It-All” Offshore Carrier 7500
Damen Shipyards on Monday released information about an innovative new concept vessel designed as a smaller heavy transport, offshore installation and ro-ro platform versatile enough to be suitable in...
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Far Solitaire Wins SMM’s “Ship of The Year Award” For Chemical Compliance
On the picture from left: Martijn Peter De Jongh, Designer Rolls-Royce, Ståle Synes, Captain, Steinar Nerbøvik, Yard Director of STX OSV Langsten, Sverre A. Farstad, Chairman of the Board of Farstad...
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Interesting Ship – Incat Crowther’s Great Barrier Reef Patrol Vessel
Image courtesy Incat Crowther Incat Crowther and Marine Engineering Consultants (MEC) have started work on the construction of a 24m long-range catamaran patrol vessel that will work to protect the...
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Turkish Power-Ship Maker Karadeniz Eyeing Expansion in Africa, US, UK
Karadeniz Holding’s powership, Rauf Bey. Photo courtesy Karadeniz Holding TUZLA, Turkey, July 30 (Reuters) – Turkish power-ship builder Karadeniz Holding expects to supply its next...
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Interesting Ship: New Compact Accommodation Vessel ‘Olympia’
Do not adjust your screen resolution, this interesting new ship is actually a compact accommodation vessel recently delivered to the Brazilian company GranEnergia. The new vessel, named “Olympia”, is...
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ACL’s Atlantic Star, World’s Biggest Roll-On/Roll-Off Containership
Delivered in October, the Atlantic Star is the first of five new ‘G4’ ro-ro/containerships (ConRo) for Atlantic Container Line (ACL) to be used for transatlantic service. Its maiden voyage from...
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