A facility gets one coating specification because that is easier to buy and easier to apply. The structure then fails wherever the exposure was worst, on a schedule nobody planned for, and the specification is blamed for a decision made at procurement. By MarineCraft Journal · 7 October 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
When a coating fails early, the paint gets the blame. Most of the time the cause was settled before the first coat went on, in a blast that met one of three requirements and was assumed to have met all three. By MarineCraft Journal · 5 October 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
Fassmer’s shipyard in Berne, Germany, hosted the launch of Sentinel, the Republic of Singapore Navy’s (RSN) first offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Sentinel class, on Thursday, October 1.Singapore’s Ministry of Defence said the four OPVs, built specifically for the…
[By: Damen Shipyards Group] Yesterday evening, Damen Shipyards Group and other representatives of the European waterborne sector signed nine Technology Roadmaps at the Waterborne Leadership Event in Brussels.
A man died and another was seriously injured after an accident at a shipyard operated by Italy's Fincantieri in the port city of Ancona, the shipbuilder and police said on Wednesday.The accident occurred late on Tuesday when a fire broke…
[By: Damen Shipyards Group] At Damen partner yard 189 Shipyard in Vietnam, a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) 1000 for Port Otago and Napier Port has been successfully launched.
