Month: September 2002

Spanish shipbuilder Izar has secured another valuable ferry order in the shape of a ropax to be operated by Strandfaraskip Landsins (SSL), the state-owned shipping company of the Faroe Islands. This ferry…

French owner GIE Dragages Ports has taken delivery of a hopper dredger with electric propulsion. The 5,000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger was built at Spanish shipbuilding group Izar?s yard in Gijon, northern…

Delmas, the Le Havre based shipping line, will this month take delivery of the third in a three ship series of 1,641 TEU container ships. The ships, Elisa Delmas, Flora Delmas and…

Bureau Veritas is involved in a number of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) studies that include the EC projects Nereus and Safety First for stability safety and fire safety of passenger roros respectively,…

In a couple of months, chemical tanker operator Fouquet-Sacop takes delivery of the second of two 15,500 dwt ships from Portuguese shipbuilder Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo (Vianayard). The vessel, called…

A top five position is sought. The break has been made into the top ten. But Marseilles-based CMA CGM must still increase fleet capacity by more than 50%, without overstretching itself financially,…

There are numerous national and international codes that recommend and, in some cases, demand that noise levels are kept below certain limits. This applies not just to noise levels outside a ship…

Great American Lines Inc (GALI), pioneer of the two-way traffic concept on its transpacific service between the US and Japan based on cars and citrus fruit, has, earlier this year, received delivery…