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Hanjin Heavy Industries has developed an automatic vertical welding machine (HW-EG2) which has dramatically reduced welding time. The shipbuilder recently used the new equipment in the construction of an 8,100TEU container ship…

BC Ferries in Canada has acquired the 20-year old ferry, John Atlantic Burr, from the State of Utah, USA, for $200,000. The vessel was extensively surveyed by BC Ferries' engineers prior to…

Leading French carrier CMA CGM has completed the $600 million acquisition of Delmas, previously 100% held by the Bollore Group. Through this transaction, CMA CGM has acquired the Delmas, Otal, Setramar brands,…

DRS Technologies, Inc, , headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, was awarded several new contracts with a combined value of approximately $43 million to design and produce power conversion, distribution and control equipment…

Northrop Grumman Corporation announced its Ship Systems sector has put out the call to all its shipyard employees who can return to work at its Pascagoula and New Orleans shipyards to do…

Wärtsilä has won contracts in the beginning of the year for propulsion systems for the seven-vessel Project Protector of the Royal New Zealand Navy. The main contractor for the project is the…

China will manufacture a barge for the Russian Federal Nuclear Agency which will outfit it with the reactor equipment at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk located in the Archangels region in northern…

Aker Yards has signed a contract worth approximately $76 million to build a Sub Sea IMR (inspection, maintenance and repair) vessel for ?stensj? Rederi AS. The 108.7 m long and 23 m…

Set up in January 2004, the three year collaborative project funded by the EC and entitled "Pollution Prevention and Control ? Safe Transportation of Hazardous Goods by Tankers" (POP&C) has been researching…