Month: August 2006

The Norwegian National Centre for Gas Power Technology has awarded financial support to DNV?s development of a guideline that shall ensure the quality of CO2 capture technologies for natural gas power generation.…

Bergesen Worldwide Group (BW), one of the world's largest closely held shipping companies, has bought 12% of New York-based General Maritime Corp (Genmar). A merger would create the world's second-largest oil tanker…

Hyundai Samho Shipyard in South Korea clinched a $323 million order for four 158,000DWT tankers from a European shipowner for delivery by January 2010.

Farstad Shipping ASA in Norway has, through its subsidiary Farstad Supply AS, signed a contract with Aker Yards to build a 4,000 DWT platform supply vessels (PSV) of the type UT 751CD.…

The Canadian ferry operator, B.C. Ferries (BCF), has signed a contract with German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau to build a new ferry for its northern route, and says it's only days from buying…

More details have emerged on a bid by Whangarei firm Culham Engineering for a major overseas shipbuilding contract. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise specialised manufacturing sector director David Penny and Culhams general…

The 65 million GT North of England P&I club has noted an increase in incidents involving crew members suffering from psychological problems at sea. In the latest issue of its loss-prevention newsletter…

Intergraph Corporation will be supplying its software to the Singapore shipbuilder and ship repairer Keppel FELS, to broaden its implementation of Intergraph's software technologies. Keppel will deploy Intergraph's integrated solution suite for…

FuelCell Energy, Inc. has been awarded an additional $2.5 million by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to complete a land-based demonstration of its ship service fuel cell (SSFC) power plant…

UK-based Intelligent Engineering (IE) has signed an agreement with leading shipping services provider V.Ships Marine Services to promote opportunities for the application of the company's Sandwich Plate System (SPS) technology.Specifically, IE will…