Author: Importer

Aker Yards has received a confirmation in the form of a firm contract for building of a third ship in the Freedom class, the world's largest cruise ship, to be delivered in…

Abeille Bourbon is the first of two identical coast protection vessels designed and equipped by Rolls-Royce. These multipurpose vessels are intended to prevent disasters such as the Erika and Prestige pollution incidents…

Industry reports claim that Qatar will spend $15 billion in the next five years to add 70 LNG carriers to its fleet of gas tankers. Qatar, home to the world?s third-largest gas…

Alfa Laval, one of the main manufacturers and suppliers of heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling equipment, has received a major order from the Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri. The order includes…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has secured an order for five 8,600TEU container ships at the price of $ 650 million and ship particulars are 334m in length, 42.8m in breadth and 24.8m in…

June 7th sees the opening of the major Nor-Shipping 2005 event in Oslo and the holding of The Motor Ship?s one-day conference. Taking place at the Rainbow Hotel Arena, adjacent to the…

Workers of the PSC Tema Shipyard in Ghana said their Malaysian Managing Director (MD), Rahin Bim Jaafa, was responsible for the fire that killed 15 workers, destroyed the ?Polaris?, a Togolese registered…

IM Skaugen ASA (IMS) has entered into an agreement to build two 3,200 cubic metre LPG carriers with a Chinese shipyard south east of Shanghai at a cost of $15 million. The…

Yang Ming Marine Transport, the Taiwan-based shipping company, said its wholly owned unit All Ocean Transportation has acquired five container vessels from state-run China Shipbuilding Corp for a total of $470 million.…