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Hyundai Heavy Industries has secured three 82,000 cubic meters LPG carrier from CMM of Greece worth $280 million. The newbuildings will measure 225m long, 36.6m wide, 22m deep with service speed of…

Aker Ostsee in Germany, a subsidiary of Aker Yards, has been awarded a contract to build four container vessels for Reederei Gebr. Winter GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. The vessels are of the…

China Shipbuilding Trading and Wuhan Marine Machinery Plant signed a contract with Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan for a technology licence on steering gear. The three companies will enhance their future joint…

With the possibility of 5 super blocks to be constructed for the Royal Navy?s CVF future carrier programme, the A&P Dry Docks at Hebburn, Southampton and Birkenhead offer ideal facilities for a…

Ulstein Verft is currently working on a contract to convert Solstad?s cable-laying vessel Normand Clipper into a pipe-laying and offshore construction vessel. The conversion work is as extensive as the building of…

Aker Yards has signed an option agreement with the Estonian Tallink Group to build a sister vessel to the new cruise ferry, currently under construction at Aker Finnyards in Rauma. If the…

Wärtsilä and Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research Institute, an underlying company of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), have signed a joint venture contract to start manufacturing Wärtsilä designed marine auxiliary engines in…

The ?Grande Detroit?, a newbuilding ordered by Grimaldi-Naples, was launched recently by the Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik Yard. This multi-purpose car carrier is the ninth of a 14-ship contract awarded by the Italian…

Plans to construct Belfast's first tall ship could breathe new life into the local shipbuilding industry, an officially commissioned report on the project has found. A business plan for the venture, which…

Qatar will award a $2.7 billion contract in May for 12 LNG tankers to ship gas to the USA. Qatar is also seeking a foreign investor to help build and operate a…

The Joint Bulker Project (JBP), made up of Bureau Veritas, CCS, ClassNK, GL, KR, RINA and RS, has made available on its internet website the second draft of Common Structural Rules for…

The creation of the Polish Shipyards Corporation (KPS) has been postponed yet again, this time due to protests from the shareholders of Gdynia Shipyard (SG). The restructuring of the country's shipyard sector…

Italian classification society RINA has type-approved a device which represents a significant step towards the ?almost zero emission engine? for passenger andcruise ships. The system, known as Turbotransducer, was developed by Italy'sMec…

EnSolve Biosystems has been awarded a contract option by the US Navy to develop a biological treatment system to remove petroleum products from decommissioned ships prior to disposal. The Phase II SBIR…

The Martinac shipyard in Tacoma says it deserves a chance to compete for a $223 million contract to build four new double-ended ferries for Washington state. However, the state Department of Transportation…

A freak wave, measuring 21 metres high, struck the 92,250gt Norwegian Dawn owned by the Norwegian Cruise Line while sailing from Miami and the Bahamas to New York. Built in 2002, the…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard won an order from Bermuda-based Eships Tankers for five 13,000DWT product chemical tankers at the price of $124 million. All five ships will be delivered by June 2007.

Vizag-based Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), which is struggling financially, is expecting new orders worth more than $240 million in 2005-06. A spokesman for the yard said the yard?s shipbuilding order book was…

Kvaerner ASA and Overseas Shipholding Group of New York have signed an agreement in principle to bareboat charter ten newly built double-hulled product tankers. Under the agreement, Kvaerner's subsidiary, Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard,…

INTERTANKO supports the investigation and prosecution of illegal discharges of oil from ships but strongly objects to criminalising accidental oil pollution and to treating seafarers as criminals Any criminal offence of pollution…

The letter of intent signed in December 2004 between Aker Finnyards and NCL to build an 89,000GT cruise vessel for delivery in spring 2007, has been terminated. The parties have not been…

The second of four ro-ro vessels for the Turkish customer U.N Ro-Ro will be named and launched from the building berth at Flensburger Schiffbau. The 193 metre long newbuilding, to be named…