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MAN Diesel & Turbo and Wärtsilä Corporation have agreed to pursue a large joint research project, the Hercules-C project, as a continuation of the previous successful Hercules programmes for research and development…

India’s largest shipping company by fleet, the state-run Shipping Corp. of India (SCI), will later this week place orders for two 300,000 dwt VLCCs with options for two more. It will also…

The US-based Global Marketing Systems (GMS), one of the world’s biggest cash buyers of redundant vessels from ship owners before delivering them to ship recycling facilities, cooperates with Germanischer Lloyd (GL) on…

A consortium of British, American and Greek interests have agreed to investigate the practical maritime applications for small modular reactors (SMR) as commercial tanker-owners search for new designs that could deliver safer,…

Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration has signed a contract with Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry for the building of Chinas largest and most advanced patrol vessel which is scheduled for completion in July 2012.

The 125 million gt ‘A’ rated North P&I club has written a new handbook on collecting and preserving factual evidence to help raise levels of responsibility and professionalism within the international shipping…

Singapore-based Ezra Holdings Limited (Ezra), an integrated support and marine services provider in the offshore oil & gas (O&G) sector, is fast putting in place building blocks within its core businesses to…