Month: September 2004

Bill Thomson, chief executive of Scottish tanker owner Forth Tankers plc and chairman of the 50 million GT North of England P&I club, challenged the world's merchant shipping industry last week to…

The shipyard at Avondale and a sister facility in Mississippi will build at least nine amphibious assault vessels for the US Navy, a drop from the original plan to build 12. Known…

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) in China has met its targets for the first half of this year which was to develop its shipbuilding capacity to 1.22 million DWT. Confronted with the rising…

"It is incumbent on responsible flag states to lead the way in sharing information about ship inspections, vessel standards, conditions onboard, casualties and the implementation of their own safety regimes," said Clay…

BMT Fleet Technology Ltd, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT), has acquired Vancouver-based Peter S. Hatfield Ltd, a naval architecture and marine engineering consultancy. This follows the opening of a…

A summit of UK shipbuilders has been convened by the UK?s Defence Procurement Agency which has asked representatives of shipbuilding companies to attend a meeting to discuss proposals for Britain?s naval programmes…

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has introduced an independently developed turbine plant simulator for LNG carriers at the company?s training institute in Tamachi, Minato-ku, Tokyo. This is the world?s first full-scale turbine plant…

Hyundai is likely to win an order for up to 7 LNG carriers from BP Oil. According to a shipbuilding source, Daewoo and Samsung withdrew from the competition. Meanwhile, Hyundai, Daewoo and…

Mr Kelvyn Derrick has succeeded Mr David Goodrich as Chairman of the Society of Maritime Industries. Kelvyn Derrick is Chief Executive of Hamworthy plc and has been a member of the Society?s…

The Visakhapatnam-based shipbuilding company, Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL), is all set to report nominal profits in the current year. "The company will make some profits in the current year whether we get…