Marine Log - Marine Log

Written by: Nick Blenkey
JUNE 3, 2017 — Wärtsilä and Maran Gas Maritime (MGM)have signed a five-year maintenance agreement. It covers the maintenance of 21 Maran GasTFDE (tri-fuel diesel electric) LNG carriers equipped with Wärtsilä 50DF engines.
Maran Gas is the LNG shipping unit of the Angelicoussis Shipping Group, which operates a fleet of approximately 130 merchant vessels. Thirty-three of them, including the 21 TFDE ships, are LNG carriers....

Written by: Nick Blenkey
JUNE 3, 2017 – Seaspan reports that its Vancouver Drydock shipyard in North Vancouver, BC, has completed a five week refit of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs' special purpose/cable layer vessel Ile de Batz.
The wide scope of work included retrofitting the ship with a Bio-Sea ballast water treatment system (BWTS) and assembly of a new plow (involving in situ welding and repair) along with overall support for mobilizing sthe ship....

Written by: Nick Blenkey
JUNE 2, 2017 – Singapore based Trafigura Group Pte Ltd., a leading independent commodity trading company, yesterday reported that it is supporting an order for 32 newbuild crude oil and product tankers
The order, with a potential value of over $1.35 billion, is being placed by what Trafigura describes as "a close Asian financial partner" and the vessels will be leased on delivery to Trafigura with options to purchase....

Written by: Nick Blenkey
JUNE 2, 2017 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding division delivered the first-of-class nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) to the U.S. Navy on Wednesday. The aircraft carrier successfully...