Month: December 2004

Sasakura Engineering in Japan has developed and launched a range of oily water separators that fully complies with new IMO bilge water rules due to come into effect from 1 January 2005.…

There are fears that up to 100 design jobs could go at Barrow shipyard by April unless the government comes up with stopgap work. During the year there has been concern for…

POSCO will raise prices of its steel plates and hot-rolled coil to Japan by as much as 5,000 yen ($48) a tonne in the first quarter as demand from China pushes up…

Aker Brevik AS, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has been awarded a contract by Olympic Kombiskip KS, in Fosnavåg, Norway, to deliver a platform supply vessel of the UT 755LN…

Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) ordered US$450 million of vessels from domestic yards in the country's biggest shipbuilding order. As the Middle East's biggest non-oil shipping company, IRISL ordered as many as ten…

Following the signing of a long-term time charter for two gas carriers with Yara, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K"Line) has ordered two 38,000 cubic metre, fully refrigerated ammonia/LPG carriers from Daewoo Shipbuilding &…

Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a 12,000TEU container ship design which it is now actively marketing. As the largest container carrier to date, the vessel will have a length of 383m and…

Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering in Batam Island, Indonesia, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Labroy Marine, has won a new shipbuilding contract worth $23.1 million from Norway's Belden Shipping Group. It is a…