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Alfa Laval, a leading company in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has received an order for plate heat exchangers from a company in the Russian power industry. The order value…

Zhang Guangqin, chairman of the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI), has emphasized that the domestic shipping sector in China faces many formidable challenges. Chinese shipbuilders have to face escalating…

The Brazilian state owned oil company Petrobras has revealed plans to purchase ten newbuild FPSOs. Eight of the vessels would be built domestically at the Rio Grande Shipyard in Southern Brazil. All…

KUALA LUMPUR: Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Bhd (BHIC) has proposed entering into a joint venture in Malaysia with Turkey?s Yonca-Onuk Savunma Sanyii AS shipyard to build vessels for the government and private…

The French classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has opened a Yacht Technical Office in Genoa, Italy. It provides a centre of expertise for all issues relating to the construction, classification and statutory…

Last Friday Poland submitted restructuring plans aimed at saving its Baltic shipyards in Gdynia, Gdansk and Szczecin to the European Commission in compliance with an EU-imposed deadline. "The Commission will now analyse…

EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said that the strategy adopted by the Maltese government to privatise loss-making Malta Shipyards was not acceptable under EU law. This decision leaves the government with no…

The "Monte Azul", the second unit of a second series of ten vessels of the successful "Monte" class container ships, was christened at the Daewoo-Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI) yard in Romania. It…

Simon M?kster Shipping in Norway has signed contract with Simek AS for building of one more Havyard 832 CD RS Rescue and Stand by vessel for delivery in March 2010. This will…

A comprehensive programme of tests carried out by MarinTek in Trondheim, Norway, confirms that the Torpedo lifeboat has properties that no other free-fall lifeboat can match. The new Torpedo free-fall lifeboat, which…