Month: January 2007

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has won a $500 million order to build five 4,710 TEU containerships for Germany's Hamburg Sud. The ships will have a length of 309 m, beam of…

Australian Pacific Touring (APT) has announced the building of a third European River Cruise Ship. The new 150 passenger ?Amacello?, expected to be ready for 2008, will be a sister ship to…

Dredging and Maritime Management S.A., member of the Jan De Nul Group, has ordered a new 223 metre mega hopper with a capacity of 46,000 m3. The order has been placed with…

Ukrainian industrialists continue to snap up production assets in neighbouring Central Europe, quietly establishing a sizable foothold in the EU. A Polish shipyard is the latest target of a leading Donetsk-based financial-industrial…

Target Marine in Greece has placed an order for four plus six 81,000DWT bulk carriers with C& Heavy Industries in South Korea at the price of $ 400 million. They will be…

Australia?s Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan called for tenders for the construction of a floating dock at the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson. Logan said the floating dock was part of…

Oil Sea Harvester, an EU funded project, is developing an innovative ship design for tackling oil spills in rough seas. The decision to design such a ship was made in the aftermath…

Vinashin, Vietnam's state-run shipbuilder, plans to privatize all its subsidiaries this year to raise funds for expansion, a recent government report said.The report quoted Vinashin executive Pham Thanh Binh as saying privatisation…

Another container ship for the Hamburg shipowner E.R. Schiffahrt was officially named at the Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The ?E.R. Martinique? is a 2,824 TEU sub-Panamax class newbuilding that…

Wärtsilä and Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd (HHI) signed an agreement to set up a 50/50 owned joint venture in Korea to manufacture dual-fuel engines for LNG carriers. The total investment in…