Month: March 2000

The world?s largest trailing suction hopper dredger, Jan de Nul?s Vasco da Gama, built at German shipyard Thyssen Nordseewerke, and is about to start work.With a capacity of 33,000m3; - equivalent to…

Following a period of financial uncertainty, ICO Global Communications is back on track and poised to launch the first of its 12 satellites.ICO Global Communications, the UK company set up in 1995…

Following the preliminary report about the loss of Erika, ABS has proposed a range of measures to tighten scrutiny of ageing vessels. "It is quite clear that Erikasank as a result of…

Negotiations over the actions of Korea?s shipbuilders entered into by the EU and the OECD are both deadlocked. Representatives of the EU and the Korean government met in Seoul to discuss what…

A database called Equasis that contains safety-related information on the world?s merchant fleet will be accessible on the Internet from May. So far and the European Commission, France, the United Kingdom, Spain,…

There has been a wholesale withdrawl of type-approval for the Italian-made Canepa & Campi Artica lifejackets used during the sinking of the fast ferry Sleipner, which resulted in the loss of 19…

BV has issued its own set of proposals to improve safety of old tankers. It echoes ABS?s call for computerised records, and adds that it wants computerised evaluation of the ship?s structure…

Kvaerner has agreed the sale of the Norwegian Fjellstrand shipyards, to an MBO and other local investors for NKr100 million ($12 million) but is still looking for a buyer for the Singaporean…

Carnival Corporation has taken up its option to have a third Spirit-class cruise liner built at Kvaerner Masa-Yards (KMY). The 84,000 gross, 2,100 passenger vessel will be constructed at the Helsinki New…

Evidence that the market for fast conventional ferries continues to grow is provided by an order placed with Fincantieri?s Castellamare di Stabia shipyard to build a pair of ships for Tirrenia di…