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South Korean shipbuilders enjoyed another bumper year in 2004 by winning the largest amount of orders in the world totalling 17.3 million compensated gross tonnes (CGT) last year. This was well ahead…

Ferguson Shipbuilders, the last independent yard on the Clyde, is facing a ?life or death? battle over government contracts for two new fisheries vessels. Alan Dunnet, Ferguson's chief executive, who rescued the…

The future of the museum ship Cutty Sark in Greenwich, UK, has been safeguarded following a grant of £11.25 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund which will enable the old tea clipper…

Refurbishments will bring Service Improvements for Nanaimo-Horseshoe Bay The Queen of Oak Bay, which plies on BC Ferries' Nanaimo-Horseshoe Bay route in British Columbia, Canada, is undergoing an extensive, six-month upgrade at…

Spain and Brazil have become the first states to sign the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004.The Ballast Water Convention contains measures to prevent…

Harland and Wolff is gearing up for a second year of substantial business growth following a successful 2004 which saw ship repair and conversion work increasing by 60%. The Belfast shipyard is…

German Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement said European shipbuilders aren't ready to merge with their German counterparts as many are still government-controlled. "The potential partners are not yet advanced enough,"' Clement told reporters…

Samsung Heavy Industries has developed SORAS (Samsung Optimum Routing Assessment System), a system that will give safer routing for ships while also saving fuel. It took 3 years to develop SORAS and…

Harsh environmental conditions make the complex tasks associated with oil recovery and well maintenance from certain oilfields in the North Sea extremely challenging, often resulting in oil recovery rates 20% below what…

With reference to earlier press releases on the issue of Norsk Hydro's reason for cancellation of their Letter of Intent to Farstad Shipping, fuller details have now emerged. According to Norsk Hydro…