Category: Shipbuilding

USA: Two submarine keels in a fortnight

USA: Two submarine keels in a fortnight

Gepostet von | 12 Dec 2022 | , , , | 0

Some do Christmas shopping - others lay the keels of two Virginia-class attack submarines in the space of 14 days! At the end of November, Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, performed the ceremonial keel authentication for the 27th Virginia-class attack submarine. SSN 800 is to bear the name "USS Arkansas" in future. Further north-east, 700 kilometres away, at the Electric Boat Division (GDEB) of General Dynamics Corporation in Quonset Point/Rhode Island, construction of the "USS Arizona" (SSN 803), the 30th boat in the Virginia class, began in the same way at the beginning of December. Teamwork The two specialised shipyards are cooperating on the modular...

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MV Werften: "Global One" sold to Disney Cruise Line

MV Werften: "Global One" sold to Disney Cruise Line

Gepostet von | 17 Nov 2022 | , , | 0

The world's largest, but still unfinished cruise ship "Global One" has been sold to Disney Cruise Line - a company of The Walt Disney Company - and will be completed in Wismar, where it is located in the shipbuilding hall. This was announced at the shipyard on Thursday by the insolvency administrator of the MV Werften Group, Dr Christoph Morgen, partner in the nationwide law firm Brinkmann & Partner. He explained: "Today is a very good day for the shipbuilders in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and for the maritime supply industry in northern Germany. Several hundred former and current employees of MV Werften, colleagues from the Meyer Group and numerous other employees from the shipbuilding...

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New drives: Bulk carrier with "Hard Sail" underway

New drives: Bulk carrier with "Hard Sail" underway

Gepostet von | 17 Nov 2022 | , , , | 0

The Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) reports on the first successful test voyage with the environmentally friendly "Hard Sail" auxiliary propulsion system on its bulk carrier "Shofu Maru" with a payload weight of 100,000 tonnes (dwt). On its maiden voyage from Japan to Australia to bunker coal and back to the island state, the 235-metre-long ship used the approximately 52-metre-high sail made of fibre-reinforced plastic, which is permanently installed in front of the cargo hatches and can be extended in four 15-metre tracks, to support the conventional propulsion system. Wind Challenger Based on a university research project, the concept for the so-called Wind Challenger has been under development for over a decade. Today it is an automated...

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Frigate 126: Rheinmetall supplies light naval guns

Frigate 126: Rheinmetall supplies light naval guns

Gepostet von | 17 Nov 2022 | , , , | 0

Damen Naval, the Dutch prime contractor for the construction and delivery of the future frigates 126, has announced that the contract to equip the newbuildings with a medium-calibre gun has now been awarded to Rheinmetall. MLG27-4.0 The Unterlüss-based company will produce a modernised version of the well-known naval light gun, then named MLG27-4.0, whose core component is the BK-27M revolver gun. The gas-operated revolver gun can be operated with belted or belt-fed ammunition. It combines low weight (gun with barrel 102.3 kilograms) with a high rate of fire (1,700 rounds/min) and is also used as armament for the Eurofighter, Gripen and Tornado. Rheinmetall states that the BK27 with over 3,000...

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New hall for marine projects: NVL Group invests in the Wolgast site

New hall for marine projects: NVL Group invests in the Wolgast site

Gepostet von | 8 Nov 2022 | , , | 0

The north German NVL Group (Naval Vessels Luerssen) issued a press release at the weekend announcing the modernisation of its shipyard infrastructure at the Wolgast site. An investment of around 15 million euros in a dock shelter, for which the foundation stone has just been laid, will enable shipbuilding to be carried out regardless of the weather in future and set modern standards in environmental protection and occupational safety. Together with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Minister of Economic Affairs Reinhard Meyer, NVL CEO Tim Wagner and Peene Werft Managing Director Harald Jaekel today placed a time capsule in the foundation to symbolise the laying of the foundation stone. With the completion of the roofing of the dry dock planned for the end of 2023, a wide range of shipbuilding work can be carried out without...

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