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Rolls-Royce has won a £20 million order from Chinese conglomerate Sinopec to design and equip a specialist seismic research vessel.

Singapore-based ST Engineering announced that its US shipyard, VT Halter Marine, has been awarded a shipbuilding contract worth about $144 million from Honolulu-based Pasha Hawaii (Pasha).

Alewijnse Marine Systems in the Netherlands is to design and install a new electric propulsion drive using a DC bus system for the main electric installation in three vessels to be built…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world largest shipbuilder and marine engine manufacturer, has produced its 5,000th HiMSEN engine ten years after manufacturing its first unit in 2001.

Royal Caribbean reports on its web site that it has signed a letter of intent with German shipyard Meyer Werft to build a 4,100-passenger cruise ship with an expected delivery in autumn…

Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven (LWB) will build the 7,000 dwt ‘Beluga Connection’, the first cable-layer for new German company Beluga Offshore Cable.

Norway’s Eidesvik Offshore ASA recently placed a newbuilding contract worth over NOK 800 million ($138 million) with Ulstein Verft for the construction of a 165 m offshore IMR/ construction vessel.

The Dutch heavy-lift company Dockwise BV has appointed Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to build a 117,000 dwt ‘Type 0’ (T-0) semi-submersible heavy-lift vessel for delivery by the end of 2012.

German navigation system supplier Raytheon Anschütz has introduced Nautosteer, described as a new advanced steering control system. Availability is expected by the end of 2011.

FLAGSHIP, a part EU-funded maritime transport project, has achieved major advances in accurately measuring on-board power requirements and thereby enabling a reduction in fuel consumption through the development of FLAGSHIP-EEM (Energy Efficiency…

Drydocks World recently launched the anchor handling offshore support vessel ‘Olympus Crest’ at its shipyard in Nanindah, Indonesia.

Tourism operator Mary D Enterprises has selected Austal to design and construct a 35.20m high-speed monohull passenger ferry, the second Austal-built vessel for the Noumea-based company.

Construction of Sea SA’s much anticipated new ferry, the Australian-designed Aurora, has slowed due to difficulties experienced by the Indonesian shipbuilder, a subsidiary of DryDocks World, Dubai.