General News

The German heavy lift shipping company Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land GmbH & Co. KG (SAL) has named the first of eight new heavy lift vessels to be built by the German yard of…

Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard Limited has secured contracts worth over S$215 million ($152 million) for the conversion of tankers to floating, production, storage and offloading units.These include the conversions of a tanker for…

Singapore-based ASL Marine Holdings Ltd. posted 23.7% increase in revenue to S$193.4 million ($136.7 million) on the back of higher value shipbuilding projects and increase in ship repairing and conversion jobs during…

As of the end of December 2007, Chinese shipbuilders? orders-in-hand had totaled 158.89 million dwt, rising by 131% year-on-year, according to statistics released by the Shipping Industry Administrative Office of the Commission…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won a deal valued at 794 billion won ($843 million) to build six container ships. The deal with a European shipping company calls on HHI to deliver…

Italian shipping company Rizzo-Bottiglieri-De Carlini Armatori SpA (RBD) signed a $180 million contract with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard for two 177,000 dwt Capesize bulk carriers. "These will be the largest ships in our…

The Netherlands-based maritime services company Smit has awarded Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine a contract to build three aluminium hulled crew/pilot boats for use in its Middle East operations.Strategic Marine chairman, Mark Newbold,…

General Dynamics NASSCO, a unit of defense contractor General Dynamics Corp, said it was awarded a $460 million contract to build a tenth T-AKE dry cargo ammunition ship and buy materials for…

The world's first commercial ship powered in part by a giant kite is recording fuel savings of between 10 and 15 % midway into its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, according to…

MGC Chartering Limited has placed an order with Australian high-speed catamaran builder Incat in Tasmania for Incat?s third state-of-the-art 112 metre wave piercing catamaran due for delivery in February 2009.Incat hull 066,…

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics? (WWL), represented by their marine fuels partner Wilhelmsen Premier Marine Fuels, has signed its largest ever deal for low sulphur fuel with Shell Marine Products A/S. The deal is…

Norwegian-listed bulk shipping group Jinhui Shipping and Transportation cancelled major orders for two ships, blaming the market volatility in global financial markets for its decision. The two 300,000 DWT very large ore…

The Chinese Navy is using Australian technology to upgrade its warships, a move which experts warn may be detrimental to Australia's national security. Through a joint venture company based in China, an…

There has been another call for ships to cut their sailing speed to save bunker fuel and cut harmful emissions. Lars Carlsson, chairman of the cross-industry lobby group SEAaT (Shipping Emissions Abatement…

The North of England P&I club based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, reports in the latest issue of its loss-prevention newsletter Signals that container damage and loss continues to be a problem on container…

Ambassador Stale Torstein Risa of Norway, as the keynote speaker of the two-day International Maritime Conference hosted by John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University (JLFMU), sounded a warning that there is a…

Meiji Shipping in Japan has ordered one 50,000 DWT (MR-type) product carrier from Onomichi Dockyard and two 56,000 DWT Handymax bulkers from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES). The PC is due for…

Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co won a $1.54 billion contract to build oil tankers for Oman. The two South Korean shipbuilders will build five tankers each for…

The Indonesian navy has taken delivery of the second of four corvettes ordered from the Netherlands. The 1,600-tonne Sigma-class corvette, named ?KRI Hasanuddin-366?, will join the navy's Western Fleet as a patrol…