Month: September 2004

Japan Radio Company (JRC) has launched a new marine radar system featuring proprietary technology developed specifically to enhance user-friendliness, target visibility and overall performance. The JMA-5300 series is delivered as standard with…

Evergreen is thinking about ordering a number of 9,000TEU boxships from Taiwanese shipbuilder China Shipbuilding Corp, as part its fleet expansion plan which aims to add a total of 50 new vessels…

Royal Caribbean International's Jewel of the Seas is the first international cruise ship to be honoured by the Ports of Stockholm, with its Environmental Life-Buoy Certificate, for its use of low sulfur…

China Shipbuilding Industries Corporation (CSSC) has clinched 2.2 million DWT new orders valued at $1.8 billion and completed 44 ships of 1.8 million DWT for the first half this year. China Shipbuilding…

Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has tied up a long-term transport contract with the China?s largest steel producer, Baoshan Iron and Steel. Under the terms of the deal, NYK will transport about 600,000…

UK-based BP Oil company is seeking bids from Indonesian shipowners to supply five 160,000 cubic metre LNG carriers at a total value of $850 million to carry the fuel from the proposed…

OCIMF (Oil Companies International Marine Forum) has announced that a two-year project to enhance and expand the OCIMF Ship Inspection Reporting (SIRE) programme has now come to fruition.The new system, to develop…

Wallenius Wilhelmsen, the global shipping and logistics company, has signed a cutting-edge three year agreement with WWF, the global conservation organisation, to preserve and promote the conservation of marine life on the…

A new high-speed cargo catamaran could significantly reduce the number of lorry journeys on European roads thanks to a grant of almost one million euros from the EU's Framework Programme. PACSCAT (Partial…