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What is said to be the world’s most advanced deep-sea research ship, the €124.4 million Sonne, was handed over to the German Government Monday in Wilhelmshaven by Meyer Werft, reports Tom Todd.

The eight Havyard-designed vessel for Indian shipping company, Global Offshore Services, has been christened ‘Olympus’.

BIMCO is calling on governments to exercise “robust” enforcement of sulphur limits applicable to ships operating in ECAs in order to ensure that the industry is operating at a high level of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the country’s leading companies to contribute to the ongoing efforts to build the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex in Russia’s Far East by placing orders for new…

Cathelco’s ballast water treatment (BWT) system has received alternative management system (AMS) acceptance from the US Coast Guard (USCG), marking an important milestone in achieving full Type Approval.

Russia’s new shipbuilding cluster will be established in 2015 in Kaliningrad centred on the local Yantar shipyard, according to the Yard’s director-general Victor Tutynin. Eugene Gerden reports.

Royal HaskoningDHV and Witteveen+Bos are to design a new shipyard in Kazakhstan near the town of Kuryk on the Caspian Sea – a contract worth US$18m.