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The Joint Bulker Project (JBP), made up of Bureau Veritas, CCS, ClassNK, GL, KR, RINA and RS, has made available on its internet website the second draft of Common Structural Rules for…

The ?Grande Detroit?, a newbuilding ordered by Grimaldi-Naples, was launched recently by the Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik Yard. This multi-purpose car carrier is the ninth of a 14-ship contract awarded by the Italian…

Plans to construct Belfast's first tall ship could breathe new life into the local shipbuilding industry, an officially commissioned report on the project has found. A business plan for the venture, which…

The creation of the Polish Shipyards Corporation (KPS) has been postponed yet again, this time due to protests from the shareholders of Gdynia Shipyard (SG). The restructuring of the country's shipyard sector…

Italian classification society RINA has type-approved a device which represents a significant step towards the ?almost zero emission engine? for passenger andcruise ships. The system, known as Turbotransducer, was developed by Italy'sMec…

EnSolve Biosystems has been awarded a contract option by the US Navy to develop a biological treatment system to remove petroleum products from decommissioned ships prior to disposal. The Phase II SBIR…

The Martinac shipyard in Tacoma says it deserves a chance to compete for a $223 million contract to build four new double-ended ferries for Washington state. However, the state Department of Transportation…

A freak wave, measuring 21 metres high, struck the 92,250gt Norwegian Dawn owned by the Norwegian Cruise Line while sailing from Miami and the Bahamas to New York. Built in 2002, the…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard won an order from Bermuda-based Eships Tankers for five 13,000DWT product chemical tankers at the price of $124 million. All five ships will be delivered by June 2007.

Vizag-based Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), which is struggling financially, is expecting new orders worth more than $240 million in 2005-06. A spokesman for the yard said the yard?s shipbuilding order book was…

Kvaerner ASA and Overseas Shipholding Group of New York have signed an agreement in principle to bareboat charter ten newly built double-hulled product tankers. Under the agreement, Kvaerner's subsidiary, Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard,…

Calls are being made for an enquiry into the delay of the RM24.3 billion contract to build 27 high-tech naval vessels for the Malaysian navy amidst warnings that it was affecting the…

Wuhan Marine Machinery Plant in China will build a crankshaft factory in Qingdao at a cost of $24 million. It will take two years for the project to be completed and will…

The French firm Technip and the Italian firm Saipem are battling for the $1 billion contract to build the FPSO vessel for the huge Akpo deep offshore field off Nigeria. Industry sources…

The Fiji Ships and Heavy Industries Limited shipyard (FSHIL) will be leased out and the slipway upgraded as part of plans to restructure the organisation. Amid calls for the state-owned entity to…

Romanian shipyard Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI) will sign on Friday a deal worth more than $500 million with German Hamburg Sud to build six 5,200TEU container ships. DMHI is in talks…

INTERTANKO supports the investigation and prosecution of illegal discharges of oil from ships but strongly objects to criminalising accidental oil pollution and to treating seafarers as criminals Any criminal offence of pollution…

The letter of intent signed in December 2004 between Aker Finnyards and NCL to build an 89,000GT cruise vessel for delivery in spring 2007, has been terminated. The parties have not been…

The second of four ro-ro vessels for the Turkish customer U.N Ro-Ro will be named and launched from the building berth at Flensburger Schiffbau. The 193 metre long newbuilding, to be named…

The Union of Greek Shipowners warned that EU pressure on shipowners to shoulder progressively stricter anti-pollution safeguards will end up undermining a vital industry and encourage law-abiding operators to skirt regulations,. In…

The US-based KBR oil services firm, a subsidiary of Halliburton, has won the engineering, design and procurement contract for the Agbami FPSO?s topsides. KBR said in a statement that it was handed…

Following their recent order for five 8,200TEU container ships, Yang Ming, the Taiwanese carrier, has now placed a contract with China Shipbuilding Corporation, for five 4,250TEU vessels with the same shipbuilder. The…