Month: April 2000

In opening MEPC 44 IMO secretary General William O?Neil said the IMO should be regarded as the only forum for setting safety and pollution prevention standards on international shipping. He said regional…

The North Sea has joined The Baltic in being designated a SOx Emission Control Area. Once MARPOL annex VI has entered into force, ships in these waters will have to use fuel…

Daewoo Heavy Industries (Daewoo) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea are to share an order for a total of ten 6,700 TEU post-panamax container ships from Mediterranean Shipping Company.Due to be…

Struggling German shipyard Kvaerner Warnow Werft has been awarded an order for a pair of 2,524 TEU container ships based on its CV2500 design.Due to be delivered in the first half of…

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has signed a letter of intent for two more Eagle class cruise ships from Kvaerner Masa-Yards, Finland (see Cruise).These ships would be the fourth and fifth in the…

Princess Cruises, the subsidiary of P&O, has confirmed that it has awarded a contract to build two 113,000g cruise ships to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan (see Cruise).The newbuildings, which should…

On March 9, Carnival signed a letter of intent with French yard Chantiers de l?Atlantique for the $700 million contract to build Cunard?s giant cruise ship, now named Queen Mary 2 (See…

Talks between the EU and Korean representatives over the issue of newbuilding prices ended without agreement. However, negotiations are continuing by telephone and there is some hope of an agreement in the…

The IMO has asked a group chaired by Bangladesh to look at ship scrapping. Its task is to identify hazards and risks associated with current practices, collect information on previous submissions and…

The Canepa & Campi Artica lifejackets, which had type approval withdrawn following the sinking of the fast ferry Sleipner, have been given the all-clear by RINa?s laboratory. Witnessed by the Italian government,…