Month: March 2004

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has just selected ALSTOM as the builder of its new generation of cruise-ships. The contract calls for ALSTOM to construct two 1,275 cabin cruise-ships, with an option for…

Hyundai Samho Shipyard in South Korea secured an order for two 159,000DWT tankers from a ship owner in Bermuda. The pair will be delivered during 2007 at a total cost of $118…

The Korea Shipyard Co. in Mokpo and Jindogun in Jeollanamdo have signed a contract for the construction of a shipyard in Jindogun. The new shipyard will have an annual shipbuilding capacity of…

Daewoo Shipbuilding said that it clinched two orders for VLCC?s, one from TCC in Taiwan and another from World Wide in Hong Kong. Both vessels will be delivered during 2007. Safmarine of…

Telenor Satellite Services today announced that it is expanding its Inmarsat C and Mini-C system at the Eik earth station in Norway making it easier for ship owners to comply with the…

The offshore supply vessel Powhatan returned to Little Creek on Tuesday after encountering heavy weather that prevented the ROV from being launched to begin searching for missing seamen of the Bow Mariner…

Samsung HI revealed that it signed a cooperation agreement with Tsuneishi Corporation. This represents the first of such an agreement between a Japanese shipbuilder and a Korean shipbuilders. The cooperation covers design,…

The Ship Design & Equipment Subcommittee of IMO recently held its 47th session (DE47) in London, and amended the proposed revision to IMO's regulations on Permanent Means of Access (PMA or fixed…

The Danish company Thrane & Thrane has received five new type approvals for its mini-C solution for Ship Security Alert System (SSAS), the TT-3000SSA Capsat. The following organizations have given their approval:…