General News

Fincantieri?s Muggiano shipyard witnessed the christening of the fast ferry Gotlandia II, ordered in June 2004 by the Swedish owner Rederi A.B. Gotland for its ?Destination Gotland? subsidiary. The ship, which was…

Meyer Werft in Germany has delivered the 93,558 gt cruise ship ?Pride of Hawaii? to the operator NCL America (USA). The delivery was postponed, because the yard changed the bearings of the…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has completed the construction of a 3,600 tonne lifting capacity floating crane for its own use. This facility will enable the Korean shipbuilder to erect very large sized blocks of…

ABG Shipyard in Mumbai, India, plans to raise up to $100 million to expand its ship-building capacity to match rising demand. The company is already building its second shipyard at Dahej with…

MAN B&W Diesel has received a contract to supply slow speed diesel engines for the six 265,000 m3 Q-max LNG carriers ordered by Qatargas II from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in…

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, ("K" Line), has placed orders for three new double-hulled VLCCs with Japanese shipyards. Kawasaki Shipbuilding will build one unit for delivery 2nd quarter 2009 while IHI Marine United will…

The Teheran-based National Iranian Tanker Co (NITC) aims to become a global player in energy transportation and could order at least 30 LNG carriers by the end of the year. NITC will…

Singapore's Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering has secured a newbuilding order from the French cement company LaFarge worth 34.5 for the construction of a 30,000 DWT self discharging cement carrier scheduled to be…

The Varna-based MTG Dolphin Shiprepair Yard in Bulgaria will construct a ship-building facility on 4.7 ha of land adjacent to its current shiprepair site. The ship-building yard, due for completion in August,…

Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group (SNTG), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Stolt Nielsen, has entered a strategic partnership with Gulf Navigation of Dubai, UAE. Under the terms of the partnership, Gulf Navigation will acquire two…