General News

Two container ships for E.R. Schiffahrt were named at the Hyundai shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. Both are Panamax vessels, each with a container capacity of 2,556 teu. They continue the newbuilding…

A Lloyd?s Register Group company has acquired ?degaard & Danneskiold-Sams?e A/S (ODS), a Danish consultancy specialising in noise, vibration and machinery dynamics. The acquisition will build on the strengths of both organisations…

A dispute between the owner of the former Cammell Laird shipyard and its tenant Northwestern Shiprepairers has led to 32 people losing their jobs. Northwestern vacated the site after failing to reach…

Shipbuilding on the Clyde has been secured for 20 years thanks to a massive investment in new jobs and training for the next generation of workers. BAE Systems, which will spend £18.5…

Following the recent announcement of Austal being awarded six 16 metre aluminium monohull boats for the Water Police in the Australian state of New South Wales, the same design has found favour…

Daewoo Shipbuilding is rumoured to be building two dry docks in Yantai, China. The plan is to construct a 1 million DWT dry dock and a 300,000DWT dry dock in Yantai, Shandong…

Qatar Gas Transport Co. (QGTC) has enlisted international shipbuilders to construct six to eight LNG carriers at a cost of about $230 million each. QGTC expects to lease each vessel to deliver…

Fuelled by the order boom in international shipping, the tonnage classified by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has grown to more than 50 million gross tonnage (GT). This is a milestone in the history…

ABB Ltd., the world's biggest maker of power transformers, will spend $100 million in China to open factories and hire as many as 4,000 employees in three years. The company will use…

South Korea's steel giant POSCO has set up its Indian subsidiary to build a 12 million tonne steel plant in Orissa. The company had signed a deal with the Orissa government for…