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There are few more dirty and dangerous jobs than scrapping old ships with scores of poorly equipped workers being killed each year in South Asia where most ships are broken apart. The…

Iridium reports that its new-generation global marine satellite communication system, Iridium OpenPort, has successfully completed sea trials on a number of different vessels, and worldwide commercial rollout is now underway."The feedback from…

Rolls-Royce has won an order to design and equip a UT 755LN offshore support vessel (OSV) with an integrated power, propulsion and motion control system, for use in the Canadian oil and…

CBO (Companhia Brasileira de Offshore) has purchased two further Rolls-Royceoffshore vessel design and equipment systems in a £13 million order. This latest contract, for two UT 715L construction/ROV vessels, follows a series…

Italy-based classification society RINA has reported continuing growth in both turnover and returns for 2008. Turnover for the 2008 year was Euro 183m, up 17% on 2007, and EBITDA was Euro 30…

Italy-based Siba Ships and Netherlands-based Seaarland Shipping Management have been named as the inaugural investors in a $300m Green Recycling Initiative (GRI) which aims to integrate the needs of shipowners to recycle…

Howe Robinson's research boss Paul Dowell was pulling no punches at a recent London conference when he warned of large-scale container and bulk carrier overcapacity for the next five years. Delegates at…

Korean shipyards topped a list of newbuilding cancellations, at 194 ships. Research from Norwegian classification society DNV estimated that more than 19.2m dwt on order at South Korea's yards would not be…

Australia-based Incat-Crowther?s latest design for Lomprayah High Speed Ferries, Thailand, was launched at a naming ceremony held at the Sea Crest shipyard in Samut Prakarn Province, Bangkok. Like previous vessels for Lomprayah,…

The future of the Hellenic Register of Shipping appears grim, after the EU?s official decision to implement a 17-month ban of the classification society. Under this decision, the Register won?t be able…