General News

Oil Sea Harvester, an EU funded project, is developing an innovative ship design for tackling oil spills in rough seas. The decision to design such a ship was made in the aftermath…

Australia?s Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan called for tenders for the construction of a floating dock at the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson. Logan said the floating dock was part of…

Ukrainian industrialists continue to snap up production assets in neighbouring Central Europe, quietly establishing a sizable foothold in the EU. A Polish shipyard is the latest target of a leading Donetsk-based financial-industrial…

Australian Pacific Touring (APT) has announced the building of a third European River Cruise Ship. The new 150 passenger ?Amacello?, expected to be ready for 2008, will be a sister ship to…

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has won a $500 million order to build five 4,710 TEU containerships for Germany's Hamburg Sud. The ships will have a length of 309 m, beam of…

Namura Shipbuilding in Japan clinched a 228,000DWT bulk carrier from MOL. Scheduled for delivery in early 2009, the Cape size bulker will have a length of 319.6m, a breadth of 54m and…

Wärtsilä and Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd (HHI) signed an agreement to set up a 50/50 owned joint venture in Korea to manufacture dual-fuel engines for LNG carriers. The total investment in…

Another container ship for the Hamburg shipowner E.R. Schiffahrt was officially named at the Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The ?E.R. Martinique? is a 2,824 TEU sub-Panamax class newbuilding that…

Throughout most of the post-war years, France maintained two aircraft carriers but this changed when the Foch, the last Clemenceau Class carrier, was retired in November 2000. Since then, France has lacked…

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. in Japan has recently launched the "Corona Lions," a new 85,600 DWT-type coal carrier at Oshima Shipbuilding.The Corona series, which "K" Line originated and continues to develop, is…