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China's shipbuilding industry has entered into the liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipbuilding market with the signing of the country?s first newbuilding contract for this ship type. Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (HZS), a subsidiary of…

Hyundai Merchant Marine reports to Korea Stock Exchange today that it decides to order three 4,700TEU container ships with delivery of second and third quarter of 2007. Total investment will be $…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) will begin construction of a warship armed with the Aegis Combat System, the US developed anti-air defense system, for the South Korea?s navy at a cost of over…

India has unveiled plans to build an aircraft carrier and Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Arun Prakash, said that the carrier would be built at the Cochin shipyard. "The ADS (Air Defence…

French shipbuilding group Armaris and Spanish shipbuilding group IZAR will be asked to participate in a funded risk reduction and design study for the Royal Australian Navy's two new amphibious vessels. Defence…

Four more countries have expressed an interest in joining the coordinated patrols launched recently by Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to stamp out piracy in the Straits of Malacca. The countries in question…

Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea signed a contract to build the first of three 7,000 tonne submarines for the Korean Navy for delivery late 2008. Vessel particulars are 165.9m long, 21m wide,…

Classification society Bureau Veritas has been named as one of the three best performing classification societies in the world, based on Port State Control statistics from the Paris MOU.This year is the…

Solstad Offshore of Norway has signed a Letter of Intent with Merwede Shipyard regarding the building of an ULSTEIN P105 platform supply vessel. The Dutch shipyard has in connection with this order…

Singapore's Transport Minister, Yeo Cheow Tong, says that the ISPS Code, which applies to cargo ships of 500 gross tonnage and upwards, must extend to smaller vessels which, potentially, pose a serious…

The future of Britain?s beleaguered shipbuilding industry is to be decided by a Ministry of Defence study that will determine the placement of billions of pounds worth of naval orders. The investigation…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSMA) will be reporting that its second-quarter profit will fall by 21% because of rising steel prices. DSME?s announcement will be followed by others from Korean shipbuilders…

QinetiQ, Europe's largest science and technology organisation, has announced its acquisition of UK-based consulting organisation HVR Consulting Services Limited (HVR). HVR, which, since 1983, has provided technical and management consultancy to the…

The US based aeronautics defence contractor Lockheed Martin signed up state-owned Polish shipbuilder Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa (SSN) to build four ships by 2008 as part of an offset deal concerning Poland?s purchase…

The Rolls-Royce MT30 marine gas turbine engine has completed another major development milestone required for operation by the US Navy by successfully carrying out endurance test running for American Bureau of Shipping…

The Japanese shipping company, MOL, has received the main contract from Chiyotec Limited to handle all Asia-based transport of equipment for the LNG/OET(Oil Export Terminal) part of the Sakhalin II Project. This…

Namura Shipbuilding in Japan plans to invest around $54 million at its Imari shipyard to boost its annual newbuilding capacity by up to 50% by the end of 2005. The plan includes…

Dozens of foreign and Taiwanese companies, including Lockheed Martin and Detyens Shipyards of the US, and BAE of the UK, are looking to buy a stake in China Shipbuilding Corp (CSC) which…

Wynstruments, now merged with B. Hepworth & Co, will launch an updatedversions of its best-selling ?straight line? window wiper and a brand newdigital control system at the SMM 2004 exhibition.The Type D…

Following the recent announcement by B.C. Ferries in Canada that two European ferry builders, Flensburger Schiffbau of Germany and Aker Finnyards of Finland, are bidding for the $380million contract to build two…

The Rolls-Royce ?zebra? battery has won its first order to power the submarine rescue vehicle (SRV) which forms a vital part of he NATO Submarine Rescue System. Eight ?zebra? batteries each with…

INTERTANKO has just received notification today that following a port meeting on the 16 June 2004, the Port of Qasim Authority (PQA) in Pakistan has decided not to accept vessels more than…