Rhode Island-based Blount Boats has been awarded a US$9 million contract to build an icebreaking buoy tender for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The ..
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Harland and Wolff, Navantia form shipbuilding collaboration
Northern Ireland-based shipbuilder Harland and Wolff has formed a new collaboration with Spain’s Navantia with the goal of jointly bidding for a range of contracts, ..
ADIPEC 2019 – BMT Delivers Real-Time Integrity Monitoring for Malaysia’s Helang FPSO
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ADIPEC 2019: BMT delivers mooring line monitoring system for Helang FPSO
BMT teams with LMC on turret moored FPSO for field development
(ADIPEC 2019: ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 11 NOVEMBER 2019 AT 1130 GST (LOCAL) / 0730 GMT; ABU DHABI NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE) – BMT has delivered a Mooring Line Monitoring (MLM) system to London Marine Consultants (LMC) for the Helang FPSO project in Malaysia. The MLM technology that has been developed by BMT has been supplied to LMC...
Neste Brings New IMO 2020-Compliant Fuel to Germany
This new marine fuel has been available in Bremerhaven, Germany, since the beginning of November 2019.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/285894/neste-brings-new-imo-2020-compliant-fuel-to-germany/
Arrowhead Wins Cost Battle in U.K. Type-31 Frigate Competition
Arrowhead frigate design for Royal Navy Type 31E competition. Babcock Photo
LONDON — The victory of the Babcock/Thales Arrowhead 140 design in Britain’s bargain-basement Type 31 frigate competition will give the Royal Navy a heavyweight fighter in the maritime security arena.
Displacing around 5,700 tons and measuring 456 feet in length, the new platform is much larger than both the light frigate originally envisioned and the ageing Type 23s it will replace in service.
The rival contenders...
https://news.usni.org/2019/09/23/arrowhead-wins-cost-battle-in-u-k-type-31-frigate-competition
BMT spins-off SMART to GreenSteam following strategic review
BMT spins-off SMART to GreenSteam following strategic review
https://www.bmt.org/news/2019/bmt-spins-off-smart-to-greensteam/
(TEDDINGTON, U.K., 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 at 0630 BST) – BMT, a leading international design, engineering, science and management consultancy, has sold its UK-based SMART business to GreenSteam, a majority owned company of BP. The marine efficiency software solutions provider is reputable in leveraging Machine Learning methodologies and next generation fuel saving platforms...
Vigor lays keel for Army’s first next generation landing craft
Vigor held a keel laying ceremony yesterday marking the first milestone in the construction of the Army’s next generation landing craft, the maneuver support vessel (light) or MSV-L.
The prototype is named in honor of SSG Elroy F. Wells, an Army watercraft operator killed in action in 1970 in Vietnam.
The nearly billion dollar contract to build MSV-Ls was awarded to Vigor in October 2017. The new design, developed in partnership with BMT, will dramatically improve the capabilities of the current...
BMT awarded ELMS2 contract to support Royal Canadian Navy
Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Toronto departs Halifax, Nova Scotia for a 6 month deployment on Operation REASSURANCE, January 19, 2019. Photo: Mona Ghiz, MARLANT PA, HS88-2019-0033-096
BMT awarded ELMS2 contract to support Royal Canadian Navy
Department of National Defence turns to BMT to provide support for Canada’s complex maritime programs
BMT is proud to announce today that it has been awarded the Engineering, Logistics, and Management Support 2 (ELMS2) contract by the Canadian Department...
BMT signs new 43m contract for Kitsap Fast Ferry service
An artist’s impression of the ferry
BMT signs new 43m contract for Kitsap Fast Ferry service
Leading engineering design consultancy BMT announces new 43m High-Speed, Fast Ferry contract
(U.K., SOUTHAMPTON at 1300 BST) – BMT has announced the signing of a contract for two new 43 metre (104’ x 37’’ x 12.5’) high-speed, passenger Fast Ferries for Kitsap Transit, with an option for a third to be added to this vessel fleet. The custom design project will once again see the UK’s leading engineering...
BMT offshore wind vessel has a whale workaround
Designers of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for offshore wind energy face a number of challenges – starting with the core mission of delivering workers in speed and comfort to turbines at sea.
In the emerging U.S. offshore wind industry there’s another unique demand: working safely around migration routes of the highly endangered northern right whale.
“It’s something we’ve not come across yet in Europe as we don’t have this right whale issue,” said James Lewis, project manager for specialized ship...
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/bmt-offshore-wind-vessel-has-a-whale-workaround/