Month: March 2007

Western Australia-based Austal Ships has finalized a contract to buy the Margate, Tasmania, shipyard facilities of North West Bay Ships from John Fuglsang Developments Pty. Ltd. and related parties. According to a…

Aker, Aker Kv?rner, and Aker Yards have joined forces to establish the company Aker Innovation. By exploiting the industrial and financial expertise of its three owners, Aker Innovation will identify new industrial…

Bermuda-based TBS International Limited has entered into agreements with China Communications Construction Company Ltd. ("CCCC") and Nantong Yahua Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. ("Nantong Yahua") to build a newly designed class of larger multi-purpose…

The French offshore shipping company Bourbon is expanding its fleet with next generation, innovative and high productivity vessels to assist its oil industry clients worldwide in developing their continental and deepwater offshore…

Austal has received a multiple ferry order from Venetian Marketing Services Limited (VMSL) for ten 48 metre passenger catamaran ferriesAdding to its fleet of 36 vessels delivered to China / Hong Kong…

It was a case of out with the very old and in with the very new as FBMA Marine Inc, the Aboitiz Corp owned shipbuilders based in Cebu, Philippines, recently signed a…

Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding and other leading manufacturers say that Germanischer Lloyd is showing its IACS colleagues a sensible lead in the way it will apply the service provisions set out…