Author: Importer

The growth in containership orders and sizes of vessels appears to be relentless. There has been a flood of orders this year for new vessels, including vessels of over 8,000 TEU and…

Now that all the commotion has died down over tankers the focus is again on bulk carriers. The IMO and IACS are bringing in new regulations for implementation such as water ingress…

Queensland based ship design and consulting company, Sea Transport Solutions (STS) will design a ?virtually uncapsizeable? vessel for Tanzanian Shipping company, Speke Shipping. The ro-ro passenger quadruple-screwed catamaran will carry 800 passengers…

Ship operating manuals have been around for many years in one form or another and to varying degrees of usefulness to the people on board, whether as a collection of ?crib-notes? at…

China Ocean Shipping (Group), the mainland's largest maritime company, plans to more than double its fleet from the current 550 ships by 2020, and has started sounding out the financial market in…

The Indian government has set October 20 as the last date for the submission of financial bids for the privatization of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), said a source close to the…

South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. said it has received four container ship orders from Germany's Rudolf Schepers Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co.Hanjin said it will provide four vessels capable of…

Golar LNG Ltd. has confirmed it has signed a newbuilding contract with the Korean shipbuilder DSME for one 145,000 m3 LNG newbuilding for delivery in 2005. Included in the contract is an…

Tsuneishi Corporation in Japan has decided to install electric deck machines on TESS 58 bulk carrier. By doing so, maritime pollution as a result of oil leakage will be sharply diminished and…

Building on the popularity and success of its Voyager-class ships, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today ordered an even larger cruise ship - the Ultra Voyager - for delivery in May 2006. Destined…

The long drawn-out dispute between South Korea and the EU has taken an interesting twist with Korea filing a counter complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that subsidies provided by…

K Line in Japan has ordered four 8,120 teu container ships from Japanese shipbuilder IHI Marine United and five 5,624 teu boxships from Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The latest newbuildings…

Universal Shipbuilding in Japan delivered a 75,318DWT panamax bulk carrier, Energy Star, on September 2. The ship was ordered by Sun Lanes Shipping S. A. in Panama. The ship is 225m long,…

A fleet of 13 rusting US ships, heavily polluted with asbestos, oil and deadly PCBs, will embark on the 4,500-mile journey from America's east coast to the UK?s Hartlepool facilities in the…

Alstom has secured a contract to supply an ectrical package for "Carnival Liberty", the new vessel for Carnival Cruise Lines.The ocean-going cruise vessel will be built by Fincantieri at the Port of…

Towards the end of July the latest unit in the four-ship Radiance class cruise vessels set sail from Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg. Weighing in at 90,090t, the Serenade of the Seas…