Nov. 12 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy has given Colonna's Shipyard $10.5 million for a four-month overhaul of the USNS Zeus cable-laying ship. The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, will ...

Shipbuilder and designer VARD has ordered 4 × MAN 12V175D-MEM gensets in connection with the building of a new purpose-built, cable-laying vessel (CLV) for Danish subsea specialit NCT Offshore. The ...

The new vessel, which will be fully operational by the second quarter of 2021, will strengthen Prysmian project execution capabilities. Prysmian Group has taken a step forward in the construction of ...

French firm Nexans has partnered with US-based Crowley Wind Services to develop a Jones Act-compliant cable lay barge. The 300ft cable lay barge, constructed in Louisiana and tested in the Gulf of ...

Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul has launched its newest cable laying vessel (CLV), the Fleeming Jenkin, at the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China, which has now entered the final phase of construction ...

On Feb. 10 last year, the cable ship CS Dependable appeared off the coast of the island of Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean atoll that’s home to a discreet U.S. naval base. Over the next month, the ...

Historically, the design of high-voltage submarine cables includes steel tensile elements (armoring) stranded around the circumference of the power cable core. Typically, the steel tensile elements ...