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Castrol Marine has launched its new Castrol TLX Plus, a range of oils specifically formulated to meet the lubrication challenges of today's demanding medium-speed engines. Castrol Marine launched the new oil to…

New software that provides revolutionary advances in shiplift control and operation technology by providing the safest and most cost-effective means of dry-docking ships was launched today by Syncrolift, a Rolls-Royce company. ATLAS…

UMC received a boost recently when it secured an order for 22 ship sets of hull aperture blanks from Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Korea. Each set comprises 8 blanks plus ancillary fitting…

Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the Venezuelan state oil company last week closed on a deal for new tankers with Argentina?s Rio Santiago shipyard in Ensenada, 60 kilometers southeast of Buenos Aires. Venezuelan…

Daesun Shipbuilding cancelled an order for two 1,043TEU container ships which it had received from two German KG ship owners at a total cost of $34 million. The order was placed with…

China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), one of the largest shipping companies in China, owns a fleet of 103 container vessels with a total capacity of over 120,000 TEUs, and is operating dozens…

MOL (America) Inc confirma that all of the company's containerships calling at North American ports and all of MOL's own terminals are in compliance with IMO?s International Ship and Port Facility Security…

Korea Line has ordered a 176,000DWT bulk carrier from a Japanese shipbuilder. The newbuilding, costing $51 million, will be delivered during the first quarter in 2006.

A&P Falmouth has a new 60 tonne crane which will service Nos. 3 & 4 drydocks in the yard. The new Bailey crane effectively doubles the lifting capacity, replacing the 30 tonne…

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered the world's largest container ship to a Canadian shipping company. Christened CSCL Asia, the 8,500 TEU ship is 334 metres long, 42.8 metres wide and…

Since introducing its first azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug, the ASD 3110 Citta Della Spezia back in 1993, the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has built almost 100 compact ASD tugs in…

A 70-ton four-stroke marine diesel engine resting majestically amid the Austrian Alps is not something one sees everyday. MAN B&W Deisel recently went to the trouble of transporting the 32/40CR to the…

Designed to provide high performance, low operating costs and low exhaust emissions, the DI12M EMS is Scania?s latest 12-litre marine engine equipped with the Scania EMS engine management system. Intended for use…

Two Hong Kong owners have placed newbuilding orders worth $70 million with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard for a pair of Capesize bulk carriers. The contracts have been placed by Wah Kwong Shipping, owned…

The Hong Kong based Orient Steamship is expanding its fleet of large dry cargo ships with a $29 million deal for a 55,000DWT bulk carrier. Sources said the firm tied up the…

Kongsberg Maritime of Norway has raised the standards of ship simulation,with the launch of Polaris 4.4.0, the latest version of its groundbreaking Polaris bridge simulation architecture. The fully scaleable Polaris 4.4.0 software…

Teekay Shipping Corporation based in Nassau, Bahamas, has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea to construct three LNG carriers, representing a total contract price of approximately…

Vladivostok-based Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) has signed contracts with Chinese shipbuilder Jinling Shipyard to construct four 1,080TEU containerships. Deliveries are scheduled for March, September, November and December 2006. These newbuildings will be…

Shanghai Shipyard and Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangsu, China, merged recently to form a combined newbuilding and ship repair company called Shanghai Chengxi Shipyard. Shanghai Shipyard has an annual shipbuilding capacity of 200,000DWT…

Hyundai Samho Shipyard in South Korea has established an automatic weather observation system (AWS) to improve production efficiency through providing detailed weather information. This will enable the Mokpo-based shipbuilder to cope better…

While traditional newbuild markets for Dutch yards become weaker, there is optimisim that financial incentives will throw a vital lifeline to new orders.Dutch shipyards have shown considerable resolve in being able to…