General News

Delivery of each of Scan Geophysical ASA's three newbuilds has been delayed by three months. Based on updated production schedules from the ABG Shipyard in India, the new delivery dates will be…

For the first time, a foreign shipyard has picked up a stake in the emerging Indian ship building and ship repair industry. Singapore-based SembCorp Marine has recently bought a 3.31% stake in…

Keppel FELS, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based industrial conglomerate Keppel Corp, has won a $206 million contract from Floatel International Ltd to build a 500-man semi-submersible accommodation vessel. Delivery is scheduled for…

W?¤rtsil?¤ and V.Ships have agreed to cooperate on the provision of a broad spectrum of marine technical services to third parties in the marine market. Drawing on W?¤rtsil?¤'s strengths as a supplier…

The Chinese shipyard of Yantai Raffles recently installed the world???s largest crane, called ???Taisun???, capable of lifting 20,000 tonnes and currently undergoing testing and commissioning. Brian Chang, chairman of Yantai Raffles Shipyard,…

After building a $720 million shipyard in Subic, Korean industrial giant Hanjin Heavy Industries Co. is planning to expand its shipbuilding business in the Philippines with another large shipyard. Hanjin has already…

The third product tanker built by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard in the US was recently delivered marking the first time in the yard???s history that three vessels were completed in the same year.…

The Spanish engineering and consultancy company Sener has tied up with Astilleros de Sevilla the basic and detail engineering of a new Viking Line Ro-Pax ferry. The 133 m long, 1,500 passenger…

Now that a massive defense spending bill has been passed in the US, the Navy is supposed to have enough money to buy one new littoral combat ship (LCS) this fiscal year…

An EU clean fuels pilot project is underway to promote the use of LNG as marine fuel for ships. Hopes are high for the Marine Fuel Gas Logistics project (Magalog) to take…