Month: June 2005

South Korea?s Daewoo Shipbuilding is today signing a contract for the construction and operation of a ship repair yard in Oman with Mr Ahmed Bin Abdulnabi Macki, of the Ministry of National…

PTC, the product development company, has supplied its shipbuilding solution programs to Wuchang Shipyard. This software, comprising of Windchill PDMLink, Windchill ProjectLink and CADDS(R) 5i, will be used as a production design…

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has introduced a ?file access service (FAS), offering permanent storage of specified ship drawings according to USCG requirements for immediate access around the clock. The FAS serves as a…

The three 160 metre-long double-ended Super C Class ferries on order for BC Ferries at Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft (FSG), Germany, will be powered by MaK engines. Scheduled for delivery between December 2007…

Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, a subsidiary of SembCorp marine, has won a contract from Cyprus-based Seatankers, a John Fredriksen vehicle, worth $780 million to build two ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs. The rigs…

The German group ThyssenKrupp sees no reason to join further consolidation attempts of the European naval shipyard industry. "There is no reason at all to press forward with the further consolidation of…

KCI Konecranes will supply four shipboard gantry cranes (Konecranes-Munckloaders) to Oshima Shipyard in Japan to be installed onboard vessels ordered by Singaporean shipowner Masterbulk Pte. Ltd. The 55,000 DWT vessels will be…

Rodriquez Cantieri Navali do Brasil SpA, the Brazilian yard of the Rodriquez Group, launched the first of seven double-ended catamarans under construction for Barcas SA in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. This catamaran…

Hyundai Heavy Industries's Engine & Machinery Division (EMD) contracted for the supply of sixteen sets of 7H21/32 diesel generating sets to be installed into four 3,500TEU container vessels ordered by German shipowner,…

Aker Yards has been awarded contracts to build four container vessels for König & Cie. GmbH und Co. KG in Hamburg. The vessels are of the type Aker CS 2700. The total…