General News

The Bergen-based Odfjell group and the Chinese shipbuilder Chongqing Chuandong Shipbuilding Industry China (CCSIC) recently agreed to terminate three of the six contracts for stainless steel chemical tankers.

UAE-based shipbuilding, ship repair and conversion specialist, Grandweld, and Drydocks World Dubai have signed a long-term ground development lease agreement (Musataha) for a shipbuilding and ship repair facility at the Industrial Precinct…

Scana Industrier ASA has, through its subsidiary Scana Volda AS, signed contract with STX Europe for delivery of remote controlled propulsion system for two anchor handling vessels which will be built in…

With the new amendment to SOLAS II-2/19 “Carriage of Dangerous Goods”, coming into force on 1 January 2011, Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has launched a database service ‘GL Cargo’, allowing its users easy…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) of Korea recently announced that it plans to develop a specialised welding technology for polar LNG carrier tanks.

Sembcorp Marine’s Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore has secured two FPSO contracts worth S$75 million.

Calculations by ballast water treatment system manufacturer Oceansaver suggest that if shipowners allow the compliance dates of the 2004 Ballast Water Convention to dictate their adoption of onboard treatment systems, an estimated…

Lloyd’s Register’s independent charity foundation, The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust (The LRET), has agreed to fund a research programme worth over €1,500,000 into shipping emissions at NTUA (National Technical University of Athens)…

The Centre for Tankship Excellence (CTX) has completed a study entitled ‘The Impact of EEDI on VLCC Design and CO2 Emissions’ in which it analysed a VLCC owner’s response to both EEDI…

In the September 2010 issue of ‘The Motorship’ we published a story on the recent repairs undertaken to the containership ‘Maersk Miami’, owned by Germany’s Reederei Blue Star GmbH, by Bahrain’s ASRY,…

Venezuelas state shipping company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has signed a deal to buy 10 Aframax oil tankers worth $700 million from Russias United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) for delivery by 2016.

Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry have shown a marginal drop over the past three months, according to the latest Shipping Confidence Survey from leading accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens.

Norwegian maritime training specialist Seagull has been prompted by anticipated enforcement of the International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006) to augment its computer-based training packages with new modules detailing the…

An integrated system of Allweiler frequency converters on board Stena Line’s latest fleet addition, the 62,000gt ‘Stena Hollandica’, promises to cut energy consumption, reduce wear and tear, and improve component efficiency.

MAN PrimeServ’s Online Service is a service solution that combines operating data from engines and turbochargers, data-processing technologies and the company’s own, expert knowledge to provide customers with regular reports, remote operation…

In an interesting departure from the norm, a Danish ferry company, Hundested-Rørvig, has ordered a double-ended ferry from a Bangladesh shipbuilder.