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Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has undertaken to construct a 300,000 dwt super large ore carrier for JFE Steel Corporation (JFE). The construction of the 330 metre long, 55 metre wide vessel…

Zhenjiang China Marine Equipment in China has enjoyed a sharp increase in engine and propeller productions for the first quarter this year. The marine equipment company has achieved industrial output of CNY…

Daewoo Shipbuilding in Korea clinched a Capesize bulk carrier from Korea Line. The shipping company ordered the 170,800DWT ship for delivery in July 2006 at a contract price of $59.6 million. When…

Far Eastern shipbuilders have been busy delivering ships. Hyundai Mipo Dockyard delivered the 46,000DWT product carrier Pamir to Novoship in Russia two months ahead of schedule. Ship particulars are 183m long, 32.2m…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard will construct its second bloc fabrication shop at Daebul in the province of Cheollanamdo in South Korea. The new 49.41 acre factory will be operational from September this year…

Samsung Heavy Industries clinched an order for four more 9,600TEU container ships from Seaspan Container Lines in Canada for delivery during 2007. This latest order is an option declaration by Seaspan and…

The Far-Eastern Sea Shipping Line (DVMP) and the Polish shipyard Szczecinska Nowa Stocznia in Szczecin signed a contract for the building of two 1,730 TEU container ships. The contract has an option…

Primorsk Shipping Corporation signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries for two ice-classed 166,000DWT Suezmax tankers for delivery in 2007. Ship particulars are 285 metres long, 50 metres wide and a draught…

BAE Systems Naval Ships is preparing for the launch of the first of its Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliary) vessels from the Govan shipyard in Glasgow on 9 April. This will be the…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will build its first electronically controlled diesel engine for a large pure car carrier (PCC) ordered by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) to be constructed at Toyohashi Shipbuilding. This…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has achieved a 70 day reduction in the construction of the first 46,000DWT product carrier in a 12 ship series order from BP Shipping. Named British Tenacity, the tanker…

Athens-based Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the Spanish shipbuilder Izar for the construction of one 145,000 cubic metre LNG tanker for delivery in July 2007.…

Gebab in Germany ordered six 4,550TEU container ships at a total cost of $350 million from Daewoo Shipbuilding (DSME) and Daewoo Mangalia in Romania. The Korean yard will build the first two…

ABS has signed a new agreement with the Greek Shipping Ministry expanding its authority to perform statutory certifications on their behalf. This expanded agreement includes survey and certification services for passenger vessels,…

Austal Ships of Australia today announced a contract to build an 85 metre ropax ferry for Greek operator Hellas Flying Dolphins (HFD). The catamaran is the fifth fast ferry HFD has ordered…

Apart from recording less data items and a reduced final recording medium, there are few major differences between "simplified" Voyage Data Recorders and "full" Voyage Data Recorders (VDRs). Simplified VDRs, however, are…

The requirements for all existing ships to carry a VDR will be endorsed by the next IMO meeting in May 2004. Existing ships will be allowed to have a floating capsule (albeit…

Voith Water Tractor demonstrates the capability of the new Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP) blades with increased bollard pull for the same input power.With the commissioning of the Voith Water Tractor Baut owned…

Shipbuilder of many Ropax ferries during the 60s and 70s with the last being Silja Europa in 1993, Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, is back in the international ferry business with the…

Norfolkline, the Dutch ferry company, has ordered a third 34,500gt Ropax ferry from Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea to meet growing demand on its Dover to Dunkerque cross channel freight and passenger…

Fincantieri and Finnlines, the Finnish shipping company, have signed a contract to build three 42,000 gt, 9,200 dwt ropax ferries at a total cost of 300 million Euro ($377 million). Furthermore, the…