Author: Importer

Japanese shipyards are reporting difficulties caused by delays in delivery of raw materials. Reports suggest that steel plate is being delayed by four weeks to some yards, though the average delay in…

Aker Yards has signed a contract with Island Offshore for the building of a well intervention vessel. This will be a near sister ship to the 'Island Wellserver', delivered from Aker Yards…

A consortium of Korean shipping companies has been formed to set up its own shiprepair facility. As Korean shipyards are fully booked with newbuilding orders, most ships have to go to China…

A ship, said to be the world?s largest LNG vessel, has been named at Samsung Heavy Industry?s (SHI) shipyard on Geoje Island, South Korea.The Lloyd's Register-classed vessel was ordered by the Qatar…

ABS and Polish Register of Shipping (PRS) have announced a multi-year, joint research and development program that will focus on ship dynamic stability in extreme wave conditions and the time variant reliability…

European Union regulators said recently that time was almost up for Poland to make changes to a government rescue package for three ailing shipyards. EU spokesman Jonathan Todd said the Polish government…

Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction has clinched a contract worth 201.1 billion won ($ 194.4 million) from a European shipping company to build two bulk carriers for delivery by December 2010.

Sembawang Shipyard Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine in Singapore, has secured an S$100 million ($73 million) contract from Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) to construct a 19,000 dwt…

Aker Yards has signed a contract with DOF ASA for building of three Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessels (AHTS). All the vessels will be of Aker Yards' own design and equipped for…

A Chinese inspector sent by a US ship classification society to a South Korean shipyard has been arrested for allegedly stealing key technology, prosecutors said Wednesday.The 35-year-old unidentified man was arrested on…