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The Norwegian ship owner Wilh. Wilhelmsen declared options to order a fifth and sixth PCTC from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan.The vessels will have a car carrying capacity of 6,400 cars…

A key testing milestone for two Rolls-Royce gas turbines for the Royal Navy?s first Type 45 destroyer has been completed. The groundbreaking WR-21 powerplants completed factory acceptance testing at French programme partner…

Kawasaki Shipbuilding in Japan has decided to introduce a new bow design known as 'Sea Arrow' on all future LPG carrier newbuildings. The new bow form, which was developed in May 2002,…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received a contract from Italian luxury yacht builder Ferretti group to supply and install 140 stabilising systems. The order is worth approximately $4.5 million with the systems…

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has issued a stark reminder to shipping companies about the need to comply with the IMO ISPS Code, and has published a simple checklist of actions…

STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has announced new orders that include two 3,500TEU container ships plus two more options giving a total contract price of $ 171 million from Reederi Nord Klaus…

Providing almost half of all bearings used in Wärtsilä machinery, Austrian company Miba AG has been chosen as the engine manufacturer?s Supplier of the Year for 2003.The reasons underlying Miba's choice are…

By developing series production of a full range of modern-design bulk carriers - ranging from handysize up to capsize - at Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) yards, UK-based Graig Group will build…

Guangzhou Shipyard International in China has set its sights on the handysize bulk carrier newbuilding market. The shipbuilder plans to build 11 handysize bulk carriers and three 5,000DWT bulk carriers each year…

Former General Secretary of the IMO, Bill O'Neil, is to be the new President of UK-based maritime training company Videotel Marine International. "Bill O'Neil has done a great deal to promote the…

An explosion on board the Singapore-flagged products tanker Bow Mariner on Sunday resulted in three crew dead and a further eighteen missing. While carrying a cargo of 11,000 tonnes of ethanol, the…

The 110 metre long, 11.45-metre beam inland waterways tanker Rosette, recently entered into service and like her sister ships, was built in two sections at the Centromost Shipyard in Poland. After launching,…

Although the US-based General Electric Transportation Systems (GE) has for many years supplied diesel engines for the US inland waterway market, it has only recently received its first order to power an…

An unusual newbuilding entered the European water transport scene with the recent entry into service of the Waterways 1, an estuary Ro-Ro vessel designed for the transportation of new cars. Not only…

"A ship is worse than a gaol [jail]. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in…

Holland may be the obvious country for dredger newbuildings but there are a number of other shipbuilding nations where this expertise is available . Japan which is about to deliver its largest…

Royal Caribbean?s fifth in series Post-Panamax precedes larger Ultra Voyager class cruise shipMariner of the Seas, the fifth cruise ship in the Voyager-class for Royal Caribbean Cruises, was delivered in October of…