Month: September 2006

Cruise ship operator Carnival Corp.'s Holland America Line has hired SeaMobile Enterprises to provide the company's 13 ships with wireless cell phone and personal digital assistant device communications. SeaMobile will begin installing…

The Marine Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association (MHFCA) has been officially registered this week in Germany as a non-profit organisation and has already attracted over 120 organisations to pre-register for membership from…

Japanese shipbuilders received orders for vessels with a combined gross tonnage of 1.09 million tonnes last month, up 47.2% from a year before, the Japan Ship Exporters Association said. Orders rose in…

DOF ASA in Norway has placed a newbuilding order with Tebma Shipyard Limited in Goa, India, for two supply vessels (PSV), design VS 470 MK II. These 73.40 m long, 3,800 dwt…

US classification society ABS has given full design approval for the class of the compressed natural gas (CNG) carrier designed and developed by Canadian-based Sea NG Corporation. Full approval follows the earlier…

The Latvian Shipping Company (LASCO) has taken delivery of its second Craotian built products tanker, the 51,800 dwt ?Jurkalne?, from the 3.Maj shipyard. The commissioning ceremony of the first of the 10-ship…

Cosco has won its first contract to build the hull of a FPSO vessel at a cost of $120 million. The vessel combines drilling, production and storage facilities and is designed for…

The Singapore-based shipbuilder Labroy Marine has signed a four ship newbuilding contract worth $60.4 million with Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mumbai-based Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited…

Cebu-based shipbuilding company Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Cebu Inc. (THICI) has committed to invest $ 100 million in the expansion of its shipyard in Balamban town in Cebu's western seaboard. THICI, a joint…

International classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has joined forces with leading yacht designers and builders to completely re-engineer its Rules for Classification and Certification of Yachts. The new Rules, launched yesterday, build…