Month: August 2004

Hyundai Merchant Marine reports to Korea Stock Exchange today that it decides to order three 4,700TEU container ships with delivery of second and third quarter of 2007. Total investment will be $…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) will begin construction of a warship armed with the Aegis Combat System, the US developed anti-air defense system, for the South Korea?s navy at a cost of over…

India has unveiled plans to build an aircraft carrier and Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Arun Prakash, said that the carrier would be built at the Cochin shipyard. "The ADS (Air Defence…

STX Shipbuilding of South Korea, is considering relocating one of its dockyards to China to expand its production capacity and improve on its productivity. The company is considering various options, including relocating…

Solstad Offshore of Norway has signed a Letter of Intent with Merwede Shipyard regarding the building of an ULSTEIN P105 platform supply vessel. The Dutch shipyard has in connection with this order…

Classification society Bureau Veritas has been named as one of the three best performing classification societies in the world, based on Port State Control statistics from the Paris MOU.This year is the…

Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea signed a contract to build the first of three 7,000 tonne submarines for the Korean Navy for delivery late 2008. Vessel particulars are 165.9m long, 21m wide,…

Four more countries have expressed an interest in joining the coordinated patrols launched recently by Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to stamp out piracy in the Straits of Malacca. The countries in question…

French shipbuilding group Armaris and Spanish shipbuilding group IZAR will be asked to participate in a funded risk reduction and design study for the Royal Australian Navy's two new amphibious vessels. Defence…