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ABS has signed a formal co-operative agreement with the US Navy?s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) which calls for joint development of ABS Naval Vessel Rules (NVR) to support the design and…

Cunard Line?s flagship Queen Mary 2 recently completed her first builder?s sea trials with flying colours. The largest, longest, tallest, widest and, at $780m, the most expensive passenger liner ever built underwent…

Naval warfare has always benefited from advances in technology going right back through history when oars were the prime propulsors, to today?s propulsion plants such as gas turbines and nuclear reactors. Recently,…

In August, the German Navy launched its new research and test vessel at the ThyssenKrupp shipyard of Nordseewerke in Emden. Named Planet, the vessel?s hull shape makes use of the SWATH technology…

High speed shipbuilder Austal Ships is basking in the glow of one of Australia?s most sought after defence contracts, the Royal Australian Navy?s (RAN) contract to supply twelve 56 m aluminium patrol…

There are more rules and regulations governing passenger ships due to come into force during the next three years than ever before. "More importantly, some of these rules are risk-based rules, not…

The demands that deepwater operations place on deck-mounted cranes has forced manufacturers to offer a wider choice of cranes. Arne Riple, vice president of sales and marketing at TTS Marine told The…

The growth in containership orders and sizes of vessels appears to be relentless. There has been a flood of orders this year for new vessels, including vessels of over 8,000 TEU and…

Now that all the commotion has died down over tankers the focus is again on bulk carriers. The IMO and IACS are bringing in new regulations for implementation such as water ingress…

Queensland based ship design and consulting company, Sea Transport Solutions (STS) will design a ?virtually uncapsizeable? vessel for Tanzanian Shipping company, Speke Shipping. The ro-ro passenger quadruple-screwed catamaran will carry 800 passengers…

Ship operating manuals have been around for many years in one form or another and to varying degrees of usefulness to the people on board, whether as a collection of ?crib-notes? at…

A further step in the evolution of multipurpose, shallow draft work-vesselsDuring the last twenty years or so, the ?Multi-purpose work vessel? has enjoyed an evolution that now sees it positioned as an…

Generally we are finding 2003 to be rather difficult," says Magnus Ringner, managing director of Götaverken Cityvarvet. He explains that this is primarily because demand has been slow all year so far…

Not so long ago, every surface warship was a mono-hull, propellers were the only choice for propulsors and prime movers were diesel or turbine direct drive engines. Now we have a multiplicity…

World-wide security concers create niche market for new ship typeThe heightened emphasis on security around the world?s ports and shipping lanes has motivated Austal Ships to design a high-speed Incident Response Vessel…

China Ocean Shipping (Group), the mainland's largest maritime company, plans to more than double its fleet from the current 550 ships by 2020, and has started sounding out the financial market in…

The Indian government has set October 20 as the last date for the submission of financial bids for the privatization of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), said a source close to the…

South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. said it has received four container ship orders from Germany's Rudolf Schepers Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co.Hanjin said it will provide four vessels capable of…

Golar LNG Ltd. has confirmed it has signed a newbuilding contract with the Korean shipbuilder DSME for one 145,000 m3 LNG newbuilding for delivery in 2005. Included in the contract is an…

Tsuneishi Corporation in Japan has decided to install electric deck machines on TESS 58 bulk carrier. By doing so, maritime pollution as a result of oil leakage will be sharply diminished and…

Building on the popularity and success of its Voyager-class ships, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today ordered an even larger cruise ship - the Ultra Voyager - for delivery in May 2006. Destined…