Month: July 2006

Aker Yards has signed a contract with the large Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel for delivery of four container/cargo ships for arctic operations, with an option for a fifth newbuilding. This order…

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…

GTR Campbell, the designers of standard design ships like Freedom, Fortune, Friendship and Fantasy, in cooperation with their associated concept design firm Algoship Designers in the Bahamas, are behind the latest new…

DNV Software is to supply the China Classification Society (CCS) with Nauticus software. Amongst a range of mutual exchanges between the two classification societies, the recent purchase of the Nauticus software is…

Swan Hunter, the last remaining shipyard on the Tyne, is likely to be mothballed with the loss of more than 300 jobs, all but marking the end of naval shipbuilding in the…

Work is underway on the Lautoka waterfront in Fiji for a new development project for Fiji Ports Corporation (FPCL) that is expected to put Fiji on the world port map.The first phase…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering will start building a factory in China next week to produce blocks for ships. The plant, located in the Chinese northeastern port city of Yantai in Shandong…

SembCorp Marine Ltd in Singapore has signed two conditional sale and purchase agreements comprising the acquisitions of SemBeth and SMOE for S$183.73 million to expand and grow its rig building and offshore…

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding in Japan has delivered a 56,056 DWT handymax bulk carrier to Lepta Shipping of Liberia. Named ?Darya Vishnu?, the newbuilding has a length of 189.99m, a width of…

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) taken delivery of the 140,000 cbm Moss type LNG carrier "Arctic Voyager", constructed at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation?s Sakaide Shipyard in Japan. This second vessel for Sn?hvit…