Month: February 2005

The latest hull-stress monitoring technology and the ability to turn around a crucial order in less than a week has seen BMT SeaTech Ltd, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology (BMT), secure…

Northrop Grumman Corporation has supplied its latest Integrated Bridge and Navigation System (IBNS) for the U.S. Navy?s new Littoral Surface Craft, the experimental or ?X-Craft,?. The vessel?s IBNS was designed, engineered, integrated…

Thanks to buoyant demand for its ship conversion and repair businesses, the Singapore shipyard of SembCorp Marine has recorded a 21% increase in last year?s net profits at $57.5 million. Revenue also…

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) today christened its new X-Craft high-speed catamaran at the Nichols Brothers Boat Builders shipyard in Freeland, Washington. The innovative X-Craft, designed by Nigel Gee & Associates,…

STX Shipbuilding, South Korea's seventh-largest shipbuilder, has received three orders worth $360 million in total to build eight oil and chemical tankers. The orders comprise of four vessels for a Cyprus-based company,…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) signed a $900 million contract with a consortium including Qatar Gas Transport Co. (QGTC) for the construction of four 216,000 cubic metre LNG carriers. Commerzleasing, a…

Astander has been awarded a contract for the conversion of the cable layer ?Provider I?, owned by a subsidiary of the Swiss Group Allseas Swiss-based Allseas Group SA, one of the major…

Br?drene Klovning Shipping in Haugesund, Norway, has ordered two 4,000 dwt chemical tankers from Volharding Shipyards in Holland. The vessels shall be delivered at the middle and at the end of 2006…

Spanish shipbuilder Izar has signed a contract with Norwegian shipping concern Knutsen to build a LNG carrier at its La Naval-Izar shipyard in Sestao near Bilbao. This is the first order for…