Month: March 2006

Bharati Shipyard in India has secured $112 million order from Bourbon, the French offshore, towage and salvage company, for five sophisticated offshore vessels. The French company had already placed an order with…

In addition to clinching the three 266,000 cbm LNG carriers from Qatar Shipping, Samsung has also won orders for eight boxships. Four 4,300TEU container ships from Danaos in Greece for delivery during…

Exmar has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering for two more LNGRV vessels, the 6th and 7th in the series, for delivery during 2009. The vessels will be built…

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded type approval from the German certification authority Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt & Hydrographie (BSH) for the Sperry Marine VoyageMaster II Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR). The BSH…

SMIT, the Dutch towage company, has reached an agreement with Damen Shipyards for the construction of 11 newly built tugs. Two of these will be type ASD 3211 tugs (65 tons bp)…

ETA Shipping and Trading, part of the Dubai-based, ETA-Ascon Group, has placed an order for two 81,200 dwt super Panamax bulk carrier vessels with Japanese shipbuilder Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. Delivery is scheduled…

Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) is ordering six QMax LNG carriers of 266,000 cu. m capacity each. These will be the largest LNG carriers built to date with about 25% greater capacity…

Australian defense officials may have thrown a wrench into government plans to build new warships in the country. In a submission to a Senate panel, the Defence Department (DP) said there was…