Month: July 2004

INP Heavy Industries in South Korea has secured a contract for two plus two 10,000DWT stainless steel chemical tankers from a UK ship owner. First ship will be delivered in March 2006…

During the first half of this year tanker owners placed orders for oil tankers totalling 5.3 million DWT with China Shipbuilding Industry (CSIC) on the strength of an increase in global oil…

In the most recent multi-year port state control (PSC) ship inspection statistics, which have just been published, Germanischer Lloyd (GL) achieved the best results of all the classification societies.In the new results,…

China State Ship-building Corp (CSSC) is planning to spend $1.2 billion on the first phase to build the world?s largest shipyard on the island of Changxing in the Yangtze River off Shanghai.…

Mike Turner, chief executive of BAE Systems, said recently his company was still considering selling its shipbuilding operations because they remained unprofitable and had a negative impact on the company's share price.BAE…

BAE?s Barrow shipyard will officially hand over HMS Bulwark to the Royal Navy in a ceremony later today. The ship has taken six years to build at a cost of around £350m…

C-MAP is the first company to have an electronic chart database tested and approved in accordance with the ISO 19379 standard. This is an important step towards offering high quality and certified…

MOL has signed contracts for joint ownership of four additional new LNG carriers with Oman Shipping Company (OSC) and all four newbuildings will be chartered by OSC. As a result, MOL will…

Castrol Marine has launched its new Castrol TLX Plus, a range of oils specifically formulated to meet the lubrication challenges of today's demanding medium-speed engines. Castrol Marine launched the new oil to…

Lloyd?s Register (LR) has been authorised by the US Coast Guard (USCG) to extend its Alternate Compliance Program (ACP) capabilities to offshore supply vessels (OSVs), in addition to cargo and tank vessels.…