General News

China State Ship-building Corp (CSSC) is planning to spend $1.2 billion on the first phase to build the world?s largest shipyard on the island of Changxing in the Yangtze River off Shanghai.…

C-MAP is the first company to have an electronic chart database tested and approved in accordance with the ISO 19379 standard. This is an important step towards offering high quality and certified…

Enpaco Corp in South Korea, an affiliate of STX, signed a technical cooperation agreement with Kosaka in Japan for cargo oil pump system for ship. With this latest agreement, Enpaco, which produces…

BAE?s Barrow shipyard will officially hand over HMS Bulwark to the Royal Navy in a ceremony later today. The ship has taken six years to build at a cost of around £350m…

China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) has invested $243 million in building a major ship repair facility at Zhoushan in China's Zhejiang province. The repair base was established earlier this year when the…

MOL has signed contracts for joint ownership of four additional new LNG carriers with Oman Shipping Company (OSC) and all four newbuildings will be chartered by OSC. As a result, MOL will…

Lloyd?s Register (LR) has been authorised by the US Coast Guard (USCG) to extend its Alternate Compliance Program (ACP) capabilities to offshore supply vessels (OSVs), in addition to cargo and tank vessels.…

Castrol Marine has launched its new Castrol TLX Plus, a range of oils specifically formulated to meet the lubrication challenges of today's demanding medium-speed engines. Castrol Marine launched the new oil to…

New software that provides revolutionary advances in shiplift control and operation technology by providing the safest and most cost-effective means of dry-docking ships was launched today by Syncrolift, a Rolls-Royce company. ATLAS…

UMC received a boost recently when it secured an order for 22 ship sets of hull aperture blanks from Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Korea. Each set comprises 8 blanks plus ancillary fitting…