Month: June 2004

Aker Yards, via its wholly owned subsidiary Aker Brevik, has entered into a contract with Island Offshore VIII KS in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver a UT 755L platform supply vessel. The approximately…

GE Marine reported that its LM2500 aero derivative gas turbine will power the Royal Australian Navy?s (RAN) eighth ANZAC-class frigate, Nuship Ballarat. The frigate was recently delivered to the RAN during a…

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, China's newest shipyard, will lose money on newbuildings because the price of steel used has doubled. The price of steel plates used to build tankers and bulk carriers rose…

STX Shipbuilding in Korea has, together with Posco, jointly develop lower temperature carbon manganese steel for NV2-4 for the first time in South Korea. NV2-4 LTCMS is a necessary material for manufacturing…

The Kolkata-based manufacturing company, Jessop, has decided to enter the shipbuilding and ship repairing business by collaborating with the Ukraine-based Tekhkom. Under the agreement, Tekhkom will supply the technical expertise for shipbuilding…

BMT Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology (BMT), DHI Water & Environment (S) Pte Ltd (DHI) and the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) signed an agreement to develop…

HITT, a provider of traffic management and navigation systems and Lloyd's Register- Fairplay (LRF), a publisher and provider of maritime information solutions, announced the formation of a joint venture company ?AIS Live…

Vietnam Coal Corporation has started construction work on a shipbuilding yard at the northern port city of Quang Ninh last week. The shipyard, covering 16 hectares, will include a workshop and slipways…

At the recent Posidonia shipping exhibition in Greece members of the Det Norske Veritas (DNV) led Pod Quality Forum, which comprises ABB (Azipod), Rolls-Royce AB (Mermaid) and Siemens/Schottel (SSP), signed the first…

Today, International Registries, Inc. (IRI), the Maritime Administrator of the Marshall Islands announced that 98 percent of the Marshall Islands flag ships to which the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS)…