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A French naval shipyard wants to sell the Canadian navy (RCN) a maintenance formula designed to ensure its troubled submarine fleet spends more time at sea. Direction des Constructions Navales, known as…

Plans by the Norwegian group Umoe Industri to merge its lifeboat and davit subsidiary Umoe Schat-Harding with Bergen-based equipment manufacturer TTS Marine ASA have been cancelled. Umoe has called off the proposed…

Australian fast-vessel builder Austal Ships Pty Ltd. has prolonged its long-standing technical and commercial partnership with the classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL). The agreement was extended for the fourth time in the…

The Outfitting Design Team of Daewoo Shipbuilding carried out a drawing review of a 3-dimensional model using a CAD program together with representatives of A.P. Moller. The review was of vessel designs,…

Exmar, the Belgian gas tanker operator with a diversified fleet of 50 ships, has successfully carried out the first commercial ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of LNG. A total of 20,650m³ of LNG was…

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $95.8 million contract for the detail design of the US Navy's 21st century DDG 1000, formerly called the DD(X), destroyer. The contract, to be performed…

Korean shipbuilders' earnings are forecast to improve through 2008 and beyond as the tight supply and demand balance allows them to pass on rising costs, said US-based investment bank Lehman Brothers in…

The Polish government said it will revise plans for restructuring its shipyards, seeking to save 16,000 jobs. Under pressure from the European Commission, Poland said it will come up with a new…

Doha-based Halul Offshore Service Company (HOSC) received their latest new anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS), the Halul 24, which was built by Bharati Shipyard in India. This vessel is the first…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has developed a new membrane LNG scaffolding system based on modular design. Until now, the shipbuilder has used 256 scaffolding units when installing the membrane containment system in LNG…