Month: September 2005

Shipyards will have a chance to submit new proposals to build four Washington state ferries after the state dropped its appeal of a court order that invalidated part of its selection process,…

John M Lyras, Chairman of the London P&I Club, has warned that there is a danger that recent moves - particularly within Europe - to criminalise those seafarers whose errors lead to…

Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) in Vancouver, Canada, has added two new clients to their growing Autohydro user group. Alabama Shipyards, part of the Atlantic Marine Group, and Derecktor Shipyards have recently chosen…

The German press has been linking Thales with Germany's OHB Technology AG in a bid to ?Germanize? its bid for Atlas Elektronik. The French defence company has not commented on this rumour…

OVDS, the Norwegian shipping company, signed a contract with the Italian shipyard Fincantieri for the building of a new cruise ship.The contract is worth $82.7 million and the newbuilding is slated to…

Queensland ship building and engineering company NQEA has won two engineering excellence awards for its construction of a luxury expedition cruise vessel for Cairns-based operator Coral Princess Cruises. Construction of the vessel…

BAE Systems? yards on the river Clyde in Scotland and at Barrow in Cumbria are set to build three of the five ?mega blocks? that will make up each of the UK?s…

Rolls-Royce has won an order from Technip, on behalf of Total Upstream Nigeria Limited, for six RB211 industrial gas turbines to operate in the Akpo oil & gas field offshore Nigeria. With…

The Graig Group has extended its successful series of new design Diamond 53 double-hull 53,000DWT Handymax bulkers into India. Working with Indian trading company Goodearth Maritime Ltd (GML), Graig will provide the…

Aker Yards and the German TT-Line have signed a contract for retrofitting of four passenger-car ferries. The retrofit means renewing the vessels fuel systems to be more flexible and conforming to today…