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The Association of Finnish Marine Industries (AFMI) and Russian joint stock company United Shipbuilding Corporation (OCK) have signed a cooperation agreement in Helsinki, with an aim to explore the opportunities of Finnish…

Flemish Prime Minister Kris Peeters signed a contract for new pilot vessels to be built by Abeking & Rasmussen in Germany. The order calls for delivery of three 25m SWATH pilot tender…

Pearl Seas Cruises, a new cruise company based in the US, has cancelled its cruise programme for the remainder of the 2009 touring season in the Atlantic region for a luxury cruise…

Golar Winter, Golar?s newly converted FSRU, recently sailed from Keppel shipyard in Singapore for Brazil and is Petrobras? second FSRU and sister to Golar Spirit. Both vessels are classed by DNV.Jan Koren,…

?Shirase?, a new ice-breaker, has arrived at its homeport in Yokosuka where Japan?s Maritime Self-Defence Force has a base. At 12,650 tonnes, the 'Shirase' has a length of 138m, a beam of…

The Air Resources Board (ARB) in California has a proposed regulation under review that, if approved as expected, will require ocean going vessels to use low sulphur marine distillates in main engines,…

Vietnam has granted an investment licence to a consortium of foreign firms led by China Steel, Sumitomo Metal and Sumitomo Corp to invest $1.15 billion in a steel mill in the country's…

Lloyd?s Register?s latest office in China, its 14th, was opened recently and will initially employ more than 20 with the number rising to 30 in the coming weeks.Nick Brown, Country and Marine…

Head of the Russian Federal Fishery Agency, Andrey Krainy, says cooperation with Norway over trawler fleet modernization is a necessity. The obsolete Russian fishing fleet now is in dire need of upgrades…

Officials from major Asian LNG carrier shipyards at Gastech 2009 have said that, while 2009 has been a quiet year so far, they are confident that 2010 will see an upturn in…