Author: Importer

Hyundai Heavy Industries has developed a new groundbreaking technology that makes it possible to launch a completed ship while continuing shipbuilding work at the same dock. With traditional methods, a vessel that…

Shipping should not be a ?scapegoat? for damage to the world environment, says the head of the IMO, Efthimios Mitropoulos. The IMO Secretary-General speaking in London at the opening of the IMO?s…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)of Japan is making an important investment in Southeast Asia. It will build a ship repair yard as a joint venture with Mitsui OSK Lines, Japanese trading company Marubeni…

Reinforcing India?s growing stature as a shipbuilding nation, the country?s biggest engineering firm Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) has won a contract valued at about $240 million (Rs962.4 crore) to build four…

The French company Nexans, one of the leading players in the cable industry, has signed a three-year contract worth $13.4 million to supply 3,146 km of its special marine cables to be…

The Industrial Engine Business Unit of Cummins India Limited (CIL) has inaugurated its new integrated manufacturing facility at the Cummins India Limited Kothrud Campus, Pune. CIL has invested $20 million on this…

The ?working relationship? between the European Commission and the IMO was reinforced at the end of last week with a top-level meeting, but fast action will be required at the IMO to…

A South Korean company has obtained the exclusive right to use a ship repair yard in North Korea. The right to use Ryongnam Ship Repair Factory in the western port city of…

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is finally making an entry into the offshore segment in the next three months, something which has been on the cards for the past three years.The…