Valentine Watkins, Author at Baird Maritime

June 9, 2015.

Delivery of the PSV ‘Greatship Prachi’

Greatship has taken delivery of the 'Greatship Prachi’, a 4,000DWT platform supply vessel constructed at the Xiamen Shipyard in China by Nam Cheong...

January 8, 2015.

BigRoll Shipping expands fleet

BigRoll Shipping has announced that COSCO Dalian Shipyard has been contracted to build two additional MC-class Module Carriers, bringing the total...

December 18, 2014.

Seasons greetings from Baird Maritime

October 17, 2014.

COSCO to build additional BigRoll boat

COSCO Dalian will build an additional module carrier for the Netherlands-based heavy lift company BigRoll following the exercising of a vessel newbuilding...

August 19, 2014.

Meyer rescues Turku and plots a positive future

John Pagni examines what the sale of STX’s Turku yard to Meyer Werft will mean for Finland’s shipbuilding industry “Turku thanks Meyer!” blared the...

July 25, 2014.

Refloated ‘Costa Concordia’ departs for Genoa

Crowley Maritime subsidiary TITAN Salvage, along with partner Micoperi, have confirmed that the Costa Concordia cruise ship has been refloated and...

June 24, 2014.

First steel cut for ‘BigRoll Barentsz’

BigRoll Shipping has announced the first steel of 'BigRoll Barentsz' was cut at COSCO Dalian Shipyard in mid-June.

October 29, 2013.

COLUMN | Fortieth anniversary for Irish Ferries [Ferry Tales]

As an Irishman it would be remiss of me to let the fortieth anniversary of a company dear to my heart pass by unmentioned. Irish Ferries came into being...

September 17, 2013.

BigRoll vessels to be built by COSCO Dalian

BigRoll Shipping has announced that it has contracted COSCO Dalian Shipyard to build two MC Class Module Carriers for the transportation of ultra large...