Month: August 2004

The Rolls-Royce ?zebra? battery has won its first order to power the submarine rescue vehicle (SRV) which forms a vital part of he NATO Submarine Rescue System. Eight ?zebra? batteries each with…

The Japanese shipping company, MOL, has received the main contract from Chiyotec Limited to handle all Asia-based transport of equipment for the LNG/OET(Oil Export Terminal) part of the Sakhalin II Project. This…

INTERTANKO has just received notification today that following a port meeting on the 16 June 2004, the Port of Qasim Authority (PQA) in Pakistan has decided not to accept vessels more than…

The last independent yard on the Lower Clyde has warned that shipbuilding there could come to an end as it launched its latest vessel today. Ferguson?s lost out on a £40 million…

Austal, a name associated worldwide with aluminium vessels of the highest quality, will now also be directly associated with the world?s best designed and built live-aboard vessels. This follows the shipbuilder?s decision…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan has launched the 60,200 gt car carrier Utopia Ace, the first of 12 carriers that will be delivered to MOL by March 2007. The Utopia Ace features…

Ulstein Verft AS in Norway is to build a construction vessel for Solstad/SBM, ajoint-venture company owned by Solstad and the Monaco based Single Buoy Moorings(SBM) group. The project is one of the…

Fairbanks Morse Engine, an EnPro Industries company, has been selected by the Lockheed Martin Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) team to supply 16-cylinder PA6B sequentially turbocharged (STC) diesel engines for the lead ship…

A new kind of power source is being developed at the University of Houston that is so small yet so efficient it could make traditional power plants obsolete while greatly reducing the…

Dutch shipbuilder Schelde Marinebouw, part of the Damen Shipyads Group, says it has filed a legal claim seeking to overturn a decision by the New Zealand government's to award Australian firm Tenix…