General News

German cruise ship builder Meyer Werft has clinched a giant contract worth about €700 million with Norwegian Cruise Line for a 163,000gt cruise ship and secured an option for a second.

Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and nine key members of the Australian maritime, port and energy sectors have established a four-month study into LNK Bunkering organised as a Joint Industry Project (JIP).

Hamburg based system solutions company, SAM Electronics, has won a contract to supply and install a full IT network and associated equipment for the world’s largest offshore construction vessel.

New orders have meant future security for leading German shipyard Flensburger (FSG), but MD Peter Sierk has cautioned that developing and building four prototypes at once is “an enormous challenge”, writes Tom…

The seventh GreenPort Congress was held during the first week of October 2012 in Marseille - during which nearly 200 environmental experts across the sector came together to discuss working towards a…

Wärtsilä Hamworthy has won a contract to supply ballast water management systems (BWMS) to four platform supply vessels (PSVs) being built in China for offshore service provider Tidewater Marine.

Wärtsilä has announced a contract from Sembcorp Marine subsidiary Jurong Shipyard to supply main generating engines and thrusters for six new deep water drill ships to be built in Brazil at Estaleiro…

The majority of the shares of Finnish ship design company Deltamarin are to be sold to AVIC International Investments Limited, a publicly listed company on the Singapore Stock Exchange.