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Garware Offshore Services based in Mumbai, India, plans to acquire two anchor handling towing-cum-supply vessels (AHTSs) and one platform supply vessel (PSV) for an estimated cost of $55 million. This will increase…

Frontier Drilling USA in Houston has engaged Aker Arctic of Helsinki, Finland, to proceed with the initial design and conceptual development of the modification work for their turret moored drillship ?Frontier Discoverer?.…

Maersk Supply Service signed a contract for eight new 11,242kW VS 472 anchor handling and supply (AHTS) vessels from AKER Yards AS in Norway. The vessels are of Vik & Sandvik design…

India`s Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals has placed an order with South Korea`s Hyundai Heavy Industries for two Afamax tankers. One vessel is expected to be delivered in the last quarter of 2008…

Germanischer Lloyd has just published the new "IMO Pilot 2006" with an overview on the current legislation of the IMO is now available. New additions include the requirement to fit water level…

Hyundai Samho Shipbuilding in South Korea clinched two more VLCCs from NSCSA in Saudi Arabia. The 318,000DWT tankers will be delivered by 2009 at a total price of around $240 million.

Bohai Shipbuilding in China won an order for two 300,000DWT VLCCs and eight 50,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Tanker Corporation at a total cost of around $500 million. No delivery date has…

The world's largest container ship, a 9,500 TEU post-Panamax vessel classed by Germanischer Lloyd, has been christened ?COSCO NINGBO?. The 350 m long, 42.8 m wide 109,149 DWT ship was built by…

After successful trials on HMS Marlborough in 2005, QinetiQ's Onboard Risk Performance Hazard Evaluation system (ORPHEUS) is now undergoing year-long trials on three Royal Navy Type 23 frigates - HMS Northumberland, HMS…

MIROS, the Norwegian supplier of sensor-based met-ocean systems for the offshore industry in Norway, has won an agreement to supply five of its marine x-band radar-based oil spill detection systems to the…