General News

It is anticipated that by 2006 Dubai will have the world's largest ship repair capacity with Dubai Maritime City adding to facilities already provided by Dubai Dry Docks, according to Sultan Ahmed…

Japan's largest marine propeller manufacturer, Nakashima Propeller, has officially unveiled plans to build a new production facility on a 58,000 m2 site which will be capable of manufacturing propellers up to 12m…

South Australia and Western Australia joined forces yesterday in the race for $8 billion in navy shipbuilding contracts to be awarded in the next two years. Under the Australia-first deal, Perth will…

ONE of the legendary names of Clyde shipbuilding, Scott-Lithgow, is to be resurrected under a new ship repair company at the Inchgreen dry dock in Port Glasgow, creating 100 jobs over the…

The future of hundreds of British shipyard jobs could be decided this week when executives from Britain's leading shipbuilders meet ministry of defence officials to review the Royal Navy carrier programme.Kellogg Brown…

INP Heavy Industries of South Korea has received an order to build six 13,000 dwt coated oil/chemical tankers from a prominent Greek shipowner. They will have a service speed of 13.4 knots…

MacGREGOR will form the marine cargo handling division within Kone Cargotec, complementing the land-based operations of its Kalmar and Hiab divisionsKONE Corporation has bought MacGREGOR from owners Industri Kapital and Gambro AB…

Farstad Shipping ASA has received a Letter of Intent from Norsk Hydro for the supply of 3 platform supply vessels (PSV). The contract periods are for 5 years, 10 years and 10…

ASL Shipyard Pte Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of ASL Marine Holdings, has secured additional shipbuilding contracts worth a total of $45 million for the construction of eight new vessels. These contracts,…

Aker Brattvaag, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has been awarded a contract worth approximately $37 million by Olympic Shipping to build a Platform Supply Vessel of the MT 6016 type.…