Month: June 2004

Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has signed a contract for the construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier. The 150,000 cubic meter capacity vessel will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has just installed an extra-large CNC lathe at its machine fabrication shop to carry out final machining of 100-ton size shafts. The new lathe was designed to be controlled automatically…

Kongsberg Maritime is launching a sophisticated new water ingress detection system. specifically for bulk carriers. The system utilises the new patented GL-10 water detection sensors, which have been designed by Kongsberg to…

Lloyd?s Register?s classed fleet has reached an all time high of 113.8 million GT, surpassing the previous record of 113.7 million GT held in 1979. Taking into account world order book share,…

Chinese first SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin-Hull) offshore crew vessel New Central 1 recently left Tianjin Tanggu wharf for its maiden trip. The vessel was designed by Shanghai Merchant Ship Research &…

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair company in Mobile, USA, has created a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico which Bender?s president, Tom Bender, is promising will become "a world-class ship repair and new construction…

Leading classification, certification and verification company Bureau Veritas (BV) has confirmed its position as the largest and strongest such group in the world, posting annual results which show the eight consecutive year…

Larger ships, driven by the latest generation of very high-powered diesel engines, are particularly susceptible to alignment problems on the bearings supporting the propulsion shafting as well as the main engine bearings.…

ABS announced it will be classing the U.S. Navy?s new breed of warship, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), by applying technical Rules and standards established in its newly developed Naval Vessel Rules.…

Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded a contract by Kvaerner Masa-Yards in Finland to supply six Wärtsilä 12V46 as prime movers for the main generating sets for the Ultra Voyager cruise ship recently…