Author: Importer

Singapore ship owner, Ezra Marine, has placed an order with compatriot shipbuilder, Pan United Shipyard, for two anchor handling tugs (AHTS) each powered by a 8,993kW diesel main engine. The vessels reportedly…

The Chinese containership Xin Yang Zhou has become the first vessel to ?plug? into the world's first Alternative Maritime Power (AMP) container terminal at the port of Los Angeles. The China Shipping…

Eleven countries bordering the Baltic Sea have reportedly agreed to impose a ban within a year on the carriage of heavy fuel oil in single-hull tankers in the region. In a statement…

GE Marine reported that its LM2500 aero derivative gas turbine will power the Royal Australian Navy?s (RAN) eighth ANZAC-class frigate, Nuship Ballarat. The frigate was recently delivered to the RAN during a…

Aker Yards, via its wholly owned subsidiary Aker Brevik, has entered into a contract with Island Offshore VIII KS in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver a UT 755L platform supply vessel. The approximately…

HITT, a provider of traffic management and navigation systems and Lloyd's Register- Fairplay (LRF), a publisher and provider of maritime information solutions, announced the formation of a joint venture company ?AIS Live…

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, China's newest shipyard, will lose money on newbuildings because the price of steel used has doubled. The price of steel plates used to build tankers and bulk carriers rose…

The Kolkata-based manufacturing company, Jessop, has decided to enter the shipbuilding and ship repairing business by collaborating with the Ukraine-based Tekhkom. Under the agreement, Tekhkom will supply the technical expertise for shipbuilding…

BMT Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology (BMT), DHI Water & Environment (S) Pte Ltd (DHI) and the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) signed an agreement to develop…

At the recent Posidonia shipping exhibition in Greece members of the Det Norske Veritas (DNV) led Pod Quality Forum, which comprises ABB (Azipod), Rolls-Royce AB (Mermaid) and Siemens/Schottel (SSP), signed the first…