Month: July 2006

Construction work on the Limbe shipyard project in Cameroon is expected to be completed in December 2007. This was one of the revelations of a two-day adhoc committee meeting in Limbe during…

The long drawn out privatization process of the Spanish shipbuilding company IZAR was finalized yesterday when the state-owned holding company Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) announced the sale of the shipyard…

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed an agreement under which M.S. Tanker Shipping Limited, a joint-venture company with Sinotrans, will own a newly built double-hulled Malacca-Max type VLCC. The 310,000 dwt tanker…

BAE Systems has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) from the Government of Malaysia for the procurement of two frigates for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN). The project represents a highly significant…

Celebrity orders third vessel The cruise operator Celebrity Cruises, an affiliated company of Royal Caribbean Cruises, has ordered a third large cruise vessel from German shipbuilder Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The contract…

The Singapore government has placed an order with Damen Shipyards Singapore for 10 specially-designed coastal patrol craft worth $85 million which includes the provision of training, spares and other services. The newbuildings…

ABS has released an enhanced new version of the CSR SafeShip for Tankers software. The new version 6.8 is an upgrade of the previous version 6.63, which shipyards have been using to…

With the launch earlier this year of BMT SeaTech Ltd?s new touchscreen version of its world-leading hull stress monitoring system, SMART Stress, ship owners are snapping it up. Already, a number of…

The State Government of Western Australia has stepped-up its campaign to convince theAustralian government that WA should play a major role in a $2billion Australian Navy vessel contract. It believes that the…

Bohai Shipbuilding in China clinched four 49,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Changjiang Shipping for delivery during 2010 at a cost of $35 million each. The yard is currently building four similar vessels…