Author: Importer

Hanjin Shipping will construct ship repair joint venture in China. The shipping company said that it will invest $ 2 million to secure 50% share of the joint venture. An unknown shipping…

Norway's Eidesvik Offshore ASA group has ordered a second Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) of Vik Sandvik's innovative, superstructure aft AVANT design at a cost of $48.6 million. The new VS493 GASS AVANT…

Talks have started that could bring an end to a dispute that is halting ship repair work at the former Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead. The owner of the site, Reddington Finance,…

Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded contracts with a total value of above 50 million EUR, by Keppel FELS Ltd in Singapore for 32 diesel generating sets to power four jack-up rigs and…

Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned company of Farstad Shipping ASA, has signed a contract with Aker Langsten AS, Tomrefjord, in Norway, for delivery of an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS)…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has developed a new scaffolding system for LNG tanks. The ever increasing orderbook for LNG carriers had led the shipbuilder to develop the new scaffolding for which a patent has…

ET Marine in the UK has launched its own air quality monitor to measure sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted by ships? engines ahead of a new IMO technical code for the emission of…

The American classification society, ABS, has broken through the 120million gross ton mark to establish a new all time fleet record. ABS has benefited from the current active newbuilding market and a…

Nippon Yusen K.K., the largest Japanese shipping line, plans to order 20 new LNG carriers by 2010 and use five or six tankers for spot contracts, a change in strategy that may…

Singapore-based SembCorp Marine has secured a $144 million rig building contract from Norway's Awilco Offshore ASA. Under the deal, PPL Shipyard will construct a deep drilling offshore jack-up rig. Construction of the…