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The range of hand-held units for measuring marine coating thickness from Fischer Instrumentation is for applications where surfaces may be rough or not easily accessible or for large or heavy objects that…

IHC Holland may be the Netherlands? best known dredger builder, but several other smaller concerns - such as De Groot Nijkerk, part of the Damen group of companies - are also highly…

The independent trials of what is a major advantage in passenger ship safety were completed at Ardossan in Scotland last week. Caledonian MacBrayne allowed one of its ferries to be used for…

A&P Shipcare says it has opened a new, 24-hour repair facility at Tilbury in the UK. The new repair facility has a workshop where engine and mechanical overhauls, steelwork, pipework renewals and…

As the world?s largest shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) started life building two 260,000 dwt VLCCs back in 1972 along with its dry-dock at Ulsan. In 1984, just ten years after HHI…

Kashiwa has launched a fire extinguisher for fighting fires in the engine room. Called Hyper-Mist it uses a high pressure jet nozzle and is suitable for use on ships of all sizes…

STX Corporation has expanded into the shipbuilding business with an equity injection of $77 million into Daedong Shipbuilding. STX, formerly called Ssangyong Heavy Industries, is a licensed builder of MAN B&W, SEMT…

Ernst Vossnack has further developed his design for a chemical tanker (The Motor Ship, April 2001), which may prove cheaper to build than conventional chemical tankers and, he says, will offer operational…

Towards the end of June, HHI was reported to have secured a six LNG carrier newbuildings order worth over $1bn. Two ships were contracted by Fredriksen-controlled Golar LNG of Norway and four…

Karl-Otto Sadler, the former programme manager of the ARGE F124 consortium of German shipyards (Blohm & Voss, HDW and Thyssen Nordseewerke), responsible for building the Sachsen-class air defence frigate published his ideas…