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GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd (Keppel Singmarine), has delivered a platform supply geotechnical vessel to Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte. Ltd (Greatship). The vessel has been bareboat chartered to GC Rieber Shipping Asia…

25th January 2010

Keppel delivers platform supply geotechnical vessel

25th January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Philippine officials are preparing the Cagayan Freeport in the far south of the Philippines as the countrys next large shipyard.

25th January 2010

Philippines promoting new shipbuilding base

25th January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Russian shipyard Sevmash’s failure to deliver 12 chemical tankers to Norwegian shipping company Odfjell and the $43 million the shipyard was fined to pay, is a valuable lesson for Russian shipbuilding…

25th January 2010

Sevmash learns hard lesson from Odfjell case

25th January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MaltaToday reports that the government is close to finalising a deal with the Italian company Palumbo for the shiprepair section of Malta Shipyards.

25th January 2010

Malta finalises Palumbo deal

25th January 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Bilge water treatment came under the spotlight in the first half of 2009, when Alfa Laval launched its PureBilge system.

23rd January 2010

Cleaner seas were the focus in 2009

23rd January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Netherlands and China are on the verge of a diplomatic conflict due to a misunderstanding over job losses, according to a recent report in the Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant.

22nd January 2010

Job losses fall-out looms with China

22nd January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Musashino Co., Ltd. have jointly developed the word’s first portable liquid-level gauge for vessel ballast tanks.

22nd January 2010

MOL develops portable gauge for ballast tanks

22nd January 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Japanese company Musashino have jointly developed a portable liquid-level gauge for vessel ballast tanks.

22nd January 2010

Liquid level gauge for measuring ballast tanks

22nd January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (Nakilat) and Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group are to jointly operate a shipbuilding facility in the Port of Ras Laffan, Qatar.

22nd January 2010

Nakilat and Damen set up jv company

22nd January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The World Shipping Council (WSC) and its members have proposed to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its member governments a new global ‘vessel efficiency system’ (VES) which would improve the carbon…

22nd January 2010

Proposed global vessel efficiency system to reduce carbon emissions

22nd January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Fincantieri has gained a further new order from the United Arab Emirates Navy for the construction of two stealth vessels, Falaj 2.

22nd January 2010

Fincantieri to supply UAE navy with stealth vessels

22nd January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Cargotec has signed a contract to deliver a range of advanced MacGregor offshore and subsea load handling systems.

22nd January 2010

Japanese order for offshore load-handling systems

22nd January 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

China Petrochemical Corp, of Taiwan, has for the first time specified all-electric cargo pump room systems for two new 40,000 dwt product carriers.

22nd January 2010

Cargo pump room system for Chinese tanker operator

22nd January 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) joint research and development project on antifouling paints for ship bottoms is to be incorporated into a government-industry initiative aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.

22nd January 2010

Ship operator launches super-smooth bottom paint initiative

22nd January 2010

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Marine fuel supplies for the Haiti disaster have been assured by US contractor Multi Service, working with the US Defense Energy Support Center (DESC).

22nd January 2010

Fuel supply system helps with earthquake relief

22nd January 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Solar Solve of the UK is supplying blackout blinds and roller screens for a major offshore installation.

22nd January 2010

Anti-glare screens for offshore platform

22nd January 2010

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Castrol will, later this year, be opening a lubricants technology centre in China to be located in the Jinqiao Science Park, Shanghai.

21st January 2010

Castrol develops Shanghai lubricants technology centre

21st January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

According to industry sources, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) is in talks with a Greek firm over a deal to build the Korean shipbuilder’s first cruise ship at an estimated cost…

21st January 2010

DSME poised to win cruise ship order

21st January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Chinas completed shipbuilding output in 2009 surged by more than 40 percent with its share in the global market rising further.

21st January 2010

Chinas shipbuilding output expanded in 2009

21st January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The United Arab Emirates is bolstering ties with South Korea by signing a memorandum of understanding with STX Offshore and Shipbuilding and the Korea Shipbuilders’ Association with Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding (ADSB) for…

21st January 2010

Korea in partnership with UAE

21st January 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

According to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters Association, Japanese export ship orders rose for the first time in 15 months in December on a year-on-year basis by 71.5 percent to…

21st January 2010

Japanese ship orders on the up

21st January 2010

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Far eastern yards still have plenty of newbuilding work but once the current order backlog is cleared they will be in the same position as the once-great European yards. Tom Todd looks…

21st January 2010

German yards struggle after dismal year

21st January 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

With the imminent entry into force of the ECDIS carriage requirements for all SOLAS ships, the industry has been looking at providing navigators with the necessary charts.

21st January 2010

Electronic data for navigation and planning fires controversy

21st January 2010