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Hyundai Heavy Industries said that its orders sank 57% in October from a year earlier on falling demand for new ships, reflecting a declining shipbuilding cycle. The orders received last month fell…

Jotun, the Norwegian paint manufacturer, has introduced a new self-smoothing and self-polishing hydrolysis antifouling coating based on the unique silyl acrylate technology. Called SeaMate, it is a TBT free antifouling, fully complying…

Wärtsilä is to establish a new centralised environmental products know-how unit. Termed Delivery Centre Ecotech (DC Ecotech), the unit will focus on developing and delivering environmental technologies, as well as products for…

Alan Haig-Brown has recently put up a new web page for mariners who visit or work the Pacific Coast of America. It is really a blog spot based on some of the…

Taiwan will release 51% stake in the state-run CSBC Corporation (China Shipbuilding) by the end of this year, marking it the largest initial public offering for 2008 so far. Fubon Securities Co.…

The Louisiana-based Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) is establishing an operation at the Port of Tampa, buying the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Co.'s lease and retaining its 500 employees with plans to…

Today sees the Cammell Laird name return to its historic Birkenhead shipyard home in a move the yard?s owners say could help them win new business from around the world. Cammell Laird,…

Seaspan takes delivery of another feederSeaspan Corporation has accepted delivery of the 'CSCL Santiago', a 2,500 TEU newbuilding. The new containership, which was built by Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding in China, expands Seaspan's…

Last Friday Korea Development Bank (KDB) signed a preliminary deal with Hanwha Group on the sale of a controlling stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME). Starting next week, Hanwha…

Bangladesh claims it is set to be swamped with orders for small ocean-going ships in the coming years as major Asian shipbuilders are now fully booked and are either turning down orders…