Month: July 2004

Korea Line has ordered a 176,000DWT bulk carrier from a Japanese shipbuilder. The newbuilding, costing $51 million, will be delivered during the first quarter in 2006.

MOL (America) Inc confirma that all of the company's containerships calling at North American ports and all of MOL's own terminals are in compliance with IMO?s International Ship and Port Facility Security…

Since introducing its first azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug, the ASD 3110 Citta Della Spezia back in 1993, the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has built almost 100 compact ASD tugs in…

A&P Falmouth has a new 60 tonne crane which will service Nos. 3 & 4 drydocks in the yard. The new Bailey crane effectively doubles the lifting capacity, replacing the 30 tonne…

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered the world's largest container ship to a Canadian shipping company. Christened CSCL Asia, the 8,500 TEU ship is 334 metres long, 42.8 metres wide and…

A 70-ton four-stroke marine diesel engine resting majestically amid the Austrian Alps is not something one sees everyday. MAN B&W Deisel recently went to the trouble of transporting the 32/40CR to the…

Designed to provide high performance, low operating costs and low exhaust emissions, the DI12M EMS is Scania?s latest 12-litre marine engine equipped with the Scania EMS engine management system. Intended for use…

Teekay Shipping Corporation based in Nassau, Bahamas, has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea to construct three LNG carriers, representing a total contract price of approximately…

Kongsberg Maritime of Norway has raised the standards of ship simulation,with the launch of Polaris 4.4.0, the latest version of its groundbreaking Polaris bridge simulation architecture. The fully scaleable Polaris 4.4.0 software…

The Hong Kong based Orient Steamship is expanding its fleet of large dry cargo ships with a $29 million deal for a 55,000DWT bulk carrier. Sources said the firm tied up the…