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D. T. Joseph, shipping secretary of the Indian government, and P. K. Srivastava, chairman and managing director of the Shipping Corporation of India - owner of almost 40% of India's shipping tonnage,…

Lloyd?s Register Asia has signed a contract with Dalian New Shipbuilding Heavy Industry (DNS) for its single biggest order in China to date comprising of 17 ships (seven VLCCs and 10 container…

Daihatsu has launched the DC-32, a new medium speed engine, with a strong environmental bias based on improved fuel efficiency and lower emissions levels. The new engine was developed around the same…

Management and labour union at Hyundai Heavy Industries tentatively agreed a wage hike and other working condition, the shipbuilder announced today. Both sides agreed to increase basic wage of W 83,000, a…

Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard (KPS) will be christening its second newbuilding later this week. The boxship is being built for Matson Navigation and will be named Maunawili, which means ?winding mountain?. Last summer,…

Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering are in line to win as many as seven tanker orders from Kuwait, which plans to spend more than $525 million to renew…

China Ocean Shipping (Cosco) has ordered two more VLCC tankers to be delivered by 2007 in order to cope with China?s soaring oil imports. The VLCCs, each with a carrying capability of…

At least 60% of ports in the Philippines currently handling various international vessels have properly complied with the international ship and port facility security (ISPS) code which was enforced beginning last July…

The holed bulk carrier Cape Africa was towed into Cape Town harbour yesterday to be berthed at the repair quay. This follows the completion of the bulk carrier?s cargo lightening operation with…

First American Scientific Corp. (FASC) has signed an agreement with Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES). The Japanese shipbuilder will conduct a feasibility study into the marketability of the KDS Micronex System in…

Mike Turner, chief executive of BAE Systems, said recently his company was still considering selling its shipbuilding operations because they remained unprofitable and had a negative impact on the company's share price.BAE…

In the most recent multi-year port state control (PSC) ship inspection statistics, which have just been published, Germanischer Lloyd (GL) achieved the best results of all the classification societies.In the new results,…

China State Ship-building Corp (CSSC) is planning to spend $1.2 billion on the first phase to build the world?s largest shipyard on the island of Changxing in the Yangtze River off Shanghai.…

During the first half of this year tanker owners placed orders for oil tankers totalling 5.3 million DWT with China Shipbuilding Industry (CSIC) on the strength of an increase in global oil…

INP Heavy Industries in South Korea has secured a contract for two plus two 10,000DWT stainless steel chemical tankers from a UK ship owner. First ship will be delivered in March 2006…

July the first has arrived and gone without the mass ship detentions predicted. However, a number of people that The Motor Ship has spoken to are surprised. "Where have all the ships…

C-MAP is the first company to have an electronic chart database tested and approved in accordance with the ISO 19379 standard. This is an important step towards offering high quality and certified…

Enpaco Corp in South Korea, an affiliate of STX, signed a technical cooperation agreement with Kosaka in Japan for cargo oil pump system for ship. With this latest agreement, Enpaco, which produces…

BAE?s Barrow shipyard will officially hand over HMS Bulwark to the Royal Navy in a ceremony later today. The ship has taken six years to build at a cost of around £350m…

China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) has invested $243 million in building a major ship repair facility at Zhoushan in China's Zhejiang province. The repair base was established earlier this year when the…

MOL has signed contracts for joint ownership of four additional new LNG carriers with Oman Shipping Company (OSC) and all four newbuildings will be chartered by OSC. As a result, MOL will…

Lloyd?s Register (LR) has been authorised by the US Coast Guard (USCG) to extend its Alternate Compliance Program (ACP) capabilities to offshore supply vessels (OSVs), in addition to cargo and tank vessels.…